Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , having some fun , earning some money and getting better at what one does have got to be three of the key elements in business and , potentially , a career in executive search ( in the right environment ) offers all three . |
| 2 | Now Wilkinson has turned the stale escargot into the galloping gourmet of the English game , a player who can be one of the shining lights of the new Premier League season . |
| 3 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 4 | Having said that their newly-released album Going Blank Again is likely to be one of the better buys of the year and tonight 's showing should not have put anyone off . |
| 5 | You 're right about it being good just to be in the premier league and be one of the better teams . |
| 6 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 7 | IF IT were n't for the presence of two eclipses , December would be one of the better months of the year . |
| 8 | Scrutinising this familiar object revealed some untidy details in the first movement : the performers have not quite solved the problem of what must be one of the cruellest openings for an orchestra ever devised . |
| 9 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 10 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 11 | This theory was to be one of the central beliefs of Stukeley 's historical and religious philosophy . |
| 12 | The strong and independent judiciary , acknowledged by the Government in the Green Paper to be one of the central supports upon which our liberties are based and upon which the rule of law depends , will be weakened by the diminishing quality of available recruits and the growing political influence in their appointments . |
| 13 | The continuing high level of inflation was reported to be one of the principal causes of public dissatisfaction with the party , which had been founded by Özal as a broad alliance in 1983 . |
| 14 | Foundations were laid for a rivalry between the two countries which was to be one of the principal causes of the First World War . |
| 15 | But , despite the technology , cars will still continue to be one of the principal contributors to air pollution . |
| 16 | Yachting World has long believed sailing to be one of the principal sports in which women can compete directly with men , particularly as , in sailing , brain and not just brawn is of the essence . |
| 17 | Clearly , high-risk industries need special consideration wherever they are sited , although being well away from high-density population areas may be one of the prime considerations . |
| 18 | The exotic influence may stem from the fact that her dream garden would be one of the Moorish gardens of Southern Spain such as The Alhambra in Granada . |
| 19 | You could be one of the 10 winners who each receive a pair of tickets for the WWF Rampage — live — at the NEC Birmingham on Tuesday September 29 . |
| 20 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 21 | This is not shown on my machine , the only other machine I think that this could be one of the blue knobs behind the H.C.L. levers but these only show the two settings N+T . |
| 22 | I might have known that it would be one of the 2–7 verses . |
| 23 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 24 | While head of the Darmstadt development centre Jurgen Wegner would provide no further details , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is said to be one of the hot favourites to win the multimillion dollar contract . |
| 25 | According to the German weekly Computerwoche , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is said to be one of the hot favourites to win the multimillion dollar contract . |
| 26 | It turned out to be one of the windiest days of the year for the delicate process of winching the three ton cross to the west end of the cathedral nave . |
| 27 | The quality of management planning will , therefore , be one of the critical determinants of a school 's success . |
| 28 | Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country . |
| 29 | The diversity of the Welsh economy will be one of the greatest benefits to Wales in the years that lie ahead . |
| 30 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |