Example sentences of "one of [art] [adj] british [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best British novels for some time — now out in paperback |
| 2 | David Boswell and Corinne Miller Cotmania and Mr Kitson ( Leeds City Art Galleries , Leeds , 1992 ) 64pp. 18 col. 52b/w ills h/b £10 Leeds City Art Gallery holds over 1,000 watercolours , drawings and prints by one of the great British exponents of the watercolours medium , John Sell Cotman . |
| 3 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 4 | The exuberance of Augustus John balances the exquisite calm of his sister Gwen , now recognised as one of the great British painters of this century . |
| 5 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 6 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 7 | BSR was one of the first British firms in the market , the United States market that is , with its X-10 . |
| 8 | When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder . |
| 9 | But Yvonne Finch is one of the first British women to try this form of contraception . ' |
| 10 | She ‘ diagnosed ’ one of the first British cases of satanic abuse , in Kent , in 1988 — over the telephone . |
| 11 | He was one of the first British footballers to play in the highly competitive Italian league and throughout his short stay in Turin he regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside actresses like Sophia Loren and Gina Lollibrigida , as part of Italy 's mythical La Dolce Vita : the sweet-life of cappuccino , Ferraris and Gucci shoes . |
| 12 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |
| 13 | Esler Dening , one of the principal British officials specialising in far eastern matters , met W. Walton Butterworth in Washington in early September 1949 and reiterated the arguments in favour of a peace treaty . |
| 14 | For my money , he is one of the greatest British comedians of all time . |
| 15 | The route follows that of one of the earliest British Railways — the Edinburgh and Dalkeith , the first railway into Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Boucher had been making a habit of beating Britain 's best 10stone 7lb men in Gary Jacobs , Mickey Hughes and Kirkland Laing , and Loughran 's win must be one of the finer British achievements of the past 12 months . |
| 17 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 18 | One of the few British birds studied in relation to acidification is the dipper , a small black and white bird which feeds on invertebrates along rivers . |
| 19 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 20 | The original Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was founded in 1837 with the award of an Admiralty contract to carry mails to the Iberian Peninsula ; it is one of the few British companies that operate under a Royal Charter — granted in 1840 . |
| 21 | Of course the show is designed to give him rocket-powered lift-off It must be one of the few British musicals to make one feel chauvinistically inclined to announce one 's origins . |
| 22 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 23 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
| 24 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 25 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |