Example sentences of "[vb -s] one of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative scenario has one of the divisional chiefs booted upstairs — Ivon Asquith ( arts and reference ) , Peter Mothersole ( ELT ) , Fiona Clark ( education ) , Ed Barry ( New York ) , or Bill Andrewes ( finance director and deputy secretary ) . |
| 2 | Southampton Art Gallery has one of the principal collections of twentieth-century and contemporary British art outside London , together with a small Old Master collection and holdings in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and nineteenth-century French art . |
| 3 | The oak parlour , panelled in pale oak , has one of the small fireplaces that were in all of the rooms , Dutch-tiled with Italian marble surrounds . |
| 4 | Under the signature of Raymond Oliver , the Parisian gastronomic publicist and owner of the Grand Véfour restaurant in the Palais Royal , is appended the information that " you will always find your dairyman has one of the great vintages of French Gruyere " . |
| 5 | Since Raymond Oliver 's assertion to the effect that your , dairyman always has one of the great vintages of French Gruyère can not be said to apply to any of my dairymen both the questions of authenticity and of relative skill with the fondue set are academic . |
| 6 | Hamburg now has one of the great ballet companies of the world , thanks to John Neumeier ( Director since 1973 ) and the wonderful international team he has built up . |
| 7 | We will say that a program is in x — IF/ALT form if it has one of the following forms . |
| 8 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 9 | Extant remains of Byzantine architecture are largely in the form of churches and cathedrals and herein lies one of the chief differences between it and the preceding Roman epoch , which had produced much secular work as well as temples . |
| 10 | In the background here lies one of the favourite themes of the Romantics : that of the coincidentia oppositorum , ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ . |
| 11 | It is waiting to be built by people like us and socially useful design highlights one of the alternative choices . |
| 12 | This highlights one of the perennial difficulties of ‘ fertile ’ mules ; mules and donkeys are not always easy to distinguish , and even some horses have long ears . |
| 13 | This highlights one of the main differences of approach between normal communication within the family and the counselling process . |
| 14 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 15 | This highlights one of the recurring dilemmas in education , that is the difficulty of quantitatively measuring many of the desired outcomes of the education process . |
| 16 | He wants one of the chairs , Bobby , out of the Bobby , he wants one of the big chairs upstairs out of your room . |
| 17 | That sentence encapsulates one of the obvious advantages that will accrue from the Bill . |
| 18 | Amanda Nobbs of CNP says one of the major problems stems from the government subsidies offered to wind farm developers . |
| 19 | ‘ The gift of dhamma ’ , says one of the pithy sayings in the Dhamma-pada ( verses about dhamma ) , ‘ exceeds all gifts ; its sweetness exceeds all sweetness ’ ; reminding the Christian of Psalm 19 where the Torah , the Law of the Lord , is described as ‘ sweeter than honey ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Akehurst says one of the positive results of recent changes in the NHS , however , is that the medical profession has been forced to look at whether the services it provides meet local needs . |
| 21 | What about the press conference , old boy ? ’ says one of the senior Tories in the flying column . |
| 22 | The Lucas ( 1973 ) paper tests one of the major predictions of the rational expectations model developed in chapter 4 and summarized in equation ( 6.1 ) by using cross-country data ; the Barro studies test the other major prediction of that model using data from a single country . |
| 23 | ROISIN Walsh-Dunseith of the House of De Courcy in Downpatrick models one of the exclusive Chacok outfits which will be on show at a Fashion Banquet later this month . |
| 24 | It features one of the least-pretty pitchmen in advertising history : |
| 25 | Yet the Treaty of Rome itself describes one of the major aims of company law harmonisation as being to make safeguards for shareholders and third parties ‘ equivalent throughout the Community ’ ( Article 54(3) ( g ) ) |
| 26 | Bone mineral measurement allows one of the important complications of corticosteroids to be monitored . |
| 27 | It also underlines one of the main reasons why community education did not become a radical movement for social change . |
| 28 | She quite fancies one of the new empire lines . |
| 29 | This pattern of selling undermines one of the standard explanations for the low level of private share ownership in the UK , namely that buying and selling shares is too complicated . |
| 30 | Al Pacino sips one of the endless cups of coffee downed during a day filming . |