Example sentences of "[prep] a chosen [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each team works in 3 villages of a chosen ecological and cultural region , with 8 months in each of the villages . |
| 2 | So God 's promises to Abraham were not just for the selfish enjoyment of a chosen few . |
| 3 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 4 | Ali were doomed to perish except a chosen few , a very few . |
| 5 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 6 | She dreaded being called a learned lady : her mother said that ‘ she was a living library ; but locked up , except to a chosen few . ’ |
| 7 | These advanced studies build into the planning model information which is specifically relevant to a chosen retail market sector . |
| 8 | The image is formed by a line deflector acting in the plane of the screen across it , and a frame deflector to deposit the electrons onto the screen at a chosen vertical level on the screen assembly . |
| 9 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |