Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] one [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 2 | VICENTE Fernandez won the English Open at The Belfry after sinking one of the longest putts ever to win a golf title . |
| 3 | This will help towards satisfying one of the main goals of the new strategy : to maintain American troops and interest in Europe . |
| 4 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 5 | Right from indie godhead McGee 's Madonna invite to the fact that Therapy ? — once a hopeless band from Belfast — are on the verge of becoming one of the three most important new bands in Britain . |
| 6 | Even more importantly , as Mikhail Gorbachev gradually allows so many officially forgotten barbarisms from the Soviet Union 's past to slide into the glare of public scrutiny , so the prospect grows of solving one of the post-war era 's most persistent enigmas . |
| 7 | Sometimes , this is the result of observing one of the above terms ( designs , subjects etc. ) as it is submerged within another ; on other occasions it is the result of observing barely perceptible changes in one of these terms between different mosaics . |
| 8 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 9 | The thought of asking one of the Royal family for money to breed owls seemed a bit out of order ; however , Suzy explained that the scheme was designed to help young people just like myself set up projects or businesses which are of benefit to the local community , as well as themselves . |
| 10 | On the other hand Oxford received a three for Russian despite having one of the best collections of Slavica in Western Europe . |
| 11 | Production-wise , Lawrence considered the obvious step of recruiting one of the '70s luminaries to the studio seat but found his aspirations nixed by circumstance . |
| 12 | Although many countries satisfy PLAN 's eligibility criteria , Tanzania ranks extremely high in terms of having one of the lowest per capita GNPs , low life expectancy , low primary school enrollment rates . |
| 13 | If you are thinking of having one of the larger , shaped baths , make sure it will fit through your bathroom door ! |
| 14 | Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career . |
| 15 | what kind of things do you want to have audio described , so there are , I mean there 's still quite a bit , but she got quite excited about the idea of involving one of the proper , well not proper , one of the , you know , official professional market research firms , as well in terms of doing this work , maybe , maybe getting money from the Arts Council to actually pay them |
| 16 | The research methods suggest new ways of assessing important factors in urban development , and of exploiting one of the largest and least-used bodies of source material for European towns in general . |
| 17 | One of the most prestigious units , No. 32 , on the Priestgate bridge , had attracted six applications despite carrying one of the highest rents £30,000 . |
| 18 | London Scottish top the table with 16 points , with West in second spot with 14 and Newcastle third on 12 , level with Sale , who have played a game less than the top three and are still in with a very good chance of snatching one of the two promotion slots . |
| 19 | The rejection notice attached to the DC suggested that if , instead of modifying one of the public data structures of the module , a new data structure was defined and used , then all would be well . |
| 20 | Failure to do so could cost you the chance of winning one of the best prizes RUNNING Magazine has ever offered . |
| 21 | There is truly not a single county which can safely be eliminated from a chance of winning one of the main trophies , although Gloucestershire , cruelly deprived of the English half of their anticipated new-ball pair , David Lawrence and Courtney Walsh , and Leicestershire , would need the biggest swings of the lot to upset the opinion polls . |
| 22 | Fieldfares , redwing and song thrush sometimes flood the islands in thousands , and flocks are scanned eagerly in the hope of finding one of the rarer Siberian thrushes such as black-throated or White 's . |
| 23 | And as the mood of British music snapped from one paradigm to another , from lush Baroque to angry garage , he 'd forced and battered Must n't Grumble into becoming one of the hottest New Wave or punk bands around . |
| 24 | One man was fined £200 at Bangor Magistrates Court on Wednesday for having one of the bogus forms . |
| 25 | Camacha is also famous for having one of the oldest and best folk-dancing groups on the island , which has performed in many different countries . |
| 26 | You 've got ta read one of the two questions on it and there 's like |
| 27 | From seeing one of the newest metro systems in the world , he wondered if he could fix it to go home via Budapest and see one of the oldest . |
| 28 | As things stood , although the Government was able to refuse registration to a newspaper on the grounds of some technicality or other , nothing in law prevented a person from using one of the existing , properly registered newspapers to put over a particular political line . |
| 29 | Apart from demonstrating one of the unwavering laws of British journalism , that nothing sells newspapers like royalty , and nothing makes a better editorial column than declamations of simple patriotism , the curious thing about these assaults is how much they belong to a period . |
| 30 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |