Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in the face of almost every conceivable difficulty widespread and bitter popular hostility to the whole idea of naval development , the need to import from abroad officers and technicians of all kinds , the surrender of Azov and consequent loss of the Black Sea fleet in 1711 ( see pp. 271–2 ) — Peter I had by his death in 1725 made Russia one of the great naval powers of Europe . |
| 2 | Izvestiya on Nov. 25 called Yakovlev one of the foremost media figures who has proved over many years his devotion to democratic principles . |
| 3 | The discharge capacity of around 220 tons per hour made Leith one of the leading ports in the United Kingdom for handling grain in bulk . |
| 4 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 5 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 6 | It is alleged that these problems made Leeds one of the worst organized towns in Britain . |