Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
2 | At this point it 's worth mentioning that one of the best approaches to persuasion in any situation can be to ask yourself : ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ and to consider what needs ( as mentioned earlier in this chapter ) you can meet . |
3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the best hopes for the future of south Wales is completion of the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill , which opposition from so many Labour Members has put in jeopardy ? |
4 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that one of the best universities in the United Kingdom for scientific research is Southampton university ? |
5 | It is well known that one of the best ways of learning is to teach others . |
6 | But , as Hoet , Baere , Tazzi and I discussed the exhibition , at a certain point it became clear that one of the best ways to talk about art is to let art speak for itself . |
7 | Does he agree that one of the best ways of breaking down violence and lessening the sectarian divide is to encourage enterprise and initiative ? |
8 | ‘ May I remind you that one of the largest groups receiving social security are receiving it not because they are neglecting their duty , but because they are doing it ? |
9 | ‘ It occurs to me that one of the cleverest things about Operation Eagle was the way Colonel Steiner and his men were transported to England . ’ |
10 | All the more tragic therefore that one of the earliest deaths in boxing , and perhaps the most controversial resulted from a fight in which a deaf boxer took part . |
11 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
12 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
13 | Karl Kroyer pointed out that one of the greatest obstacles to success in innovation is the availability of choice , and the consequent tendency toward indecision . |
14 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
15 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
16 | May feels that one of the biggest problems in old age is that people think of you as all the same . |
17 | IT WAS a strange coincidence that Harry Mead should write about the Northern Ireland situation on the very day that one of the worst atrocities in recent years occurred ( Echo January 17 ) . |
18 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
19 | Although one of the earliest questions put to him in England concerned this category of ‘ the West ’ , in the subsequent fervour that accompanied the transformation of Derrida 's work into the method of deconstruction , this problem tended to slip out of view . |
20 | Tourism , although one of the biggest sources of income to the island , is not oversold . |
21 | Who better than one of the foremost earls of Scotland , at the very gateway to his own territories of the Merse and Lothian ? ’ |
22 | At a meeting in the Kremlin last Saturday , General Vladimir Kryuchkov , head of the KGB and one of the newest members of the politburo , implicitly admitted the lies that had been told about the role of the secret police in Stalin 's repression . |
23 | Paris : Eurotunnel was the most active stock and one of the heaviest fallers as the CAC-40 index plunged 29.88 points to 1,876.24 . |
24 | The Teifi Valley provides visitors with magnificent views over open countryside and one of the finest rivers in Wales . |
25 | Many of these are also members of the American Psychological Association , s ( APA 's ) Psychology of Women Division , the largest and one of the fastest-growing divisions , which has 2000 members , almost all female . |
26 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
27 | The Chichester copy carries the signature ‘ Thomas Cantuar ’ on the title ; so that it was this very book that had such a significant influence on one of the noblest achievements of our literature and one of the greatest moulders of English life and character . |
28 | Bryan 's best pictures include the desco da parto commissioned for the birth of Lorenzo de' Medici and the Society 's finest eighteenth-century American painting , and one of the greatest pictures in American art , Charles Wilson Peale 's ‘ Group portrait of the Peale Family ’ . |
29 | His mother was n't the daughter of Arthur Naulls but born of a summertime passion between a pretty servant and one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century . |
30 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |