Example sentences of "[vb pp] one of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DOCTOR has solved one of the abiding mysteries of Christmas : the illness suffered by Charles Dickens 's character Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol . |
| 2 | Bruce Maidment has won one of the major Thames races for the ninth successive year . |
| 3 | It will be the first time in 15 years that an England tour party has not included one of the celebrated trio , who between them have appeared in 298 Test matches . |
| 4 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 5 | THE Royal Bank has been voted one of the top mortgage lenders of the year by What Mortgage magazine . |
| 6 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 7 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
| 8 | Ramaciotti is not just one of Europe 's finest car designers ( the stunning Mythos concept car was the result of his boyhood dreams ) but he is also considered one of the best analysts of design in the business . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's weird , because Firebirds are now considered one of the best slide guitars ; people really like the sharpness of those little pickups . |
| 10 | Christianity continued the penitential tradition and the ‘ grace of tears ’ was considered one of the chief gifts offered to the penitent . |
| 11 | Acquired by bequest in 1921 , it used to be considered one of the Metropolitan Museum 's greatest early Northern paintings . |
| 12 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 13 | Long considered one of the leading exponents of British Pop Art , and a major figure painter of his generation , Patrick Caulfield is the subject of a survey covering his thirty-year career and opening at the Serpentine Gallery towards the end of this month ( 24 November-17 January 1993 ) . |
| 14 | … The food was delicious , the drink unlimited ; and in spite of the dated dance records and battered furniture , the flat was considered one of the smartest places to be seen in Cairo . |
| 15 | Whenever a place is being furnished for the use of young children , a set of blocks is generally considered one of the basic pieces of equipment to be provided . |
| 16 | ‘ When at Fort Desire , in Patagonia ( lat 48 ’ ) , Mr Martens shot an ostrich ; and I looked at it , forgetting at the moment , in the most unaccountable manner , the whole subject of the petise , and thought it was a two-third grown one of the common sort . |
| 17 | ENGLAND prop Jeff Probyn has intriguingly revealed one of the tell-tale signs of the impending axe . |
| 18 | Mr Kennan , who has written one of the major works of diplomatic history of this century , noted this . |
| 19 | And when Laura had contacted the person who 'd written one of the glowing references the woman on the other end of the phone had n't sounded at all surprised . |
| 20 | These are sort of a summary of them erm I may have missed one of the minor ones out . |
| 21 | In addition , the last two million years have seen one of the greatest glaciations in the earth 's history . |
| 22 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 23 | Then one day one of my inspectors , a man called Dario Carella , phoned in claiming to have seen one of the suspected terrorists . |
| 24 | Erm the reason why parental investment theory is is particularly sensitive to , to the female point of view of course is as we 've seen one of the fundamental consequence of anisogamy is the fact that females normally invest more in offspring than do males , whereas males concentrate on mating success normally , females normally concentrate on erm parental , in individual offspring . |
| 25 | In the lighthouse field I am sure he will be remembered as having made one of the important inventions . |
| 26 | Soon after his return to England , he was made one of the three commissioners of the Privy Seal , a post he held until the appointment of Arthur Annesley , first Earl of Anglesey [ q.v. ] , as lord privy seal in 1673 superseded the commission . |
| 27 | Consider a juke-box : if you select one of 20 tunes , have you really given the system an instruction or have you merely selected one of the 20 tunes from the repertoire of the machine ? |
| 28 | You will have attended one of the many art schools or polytechnics . |
| 29 | By the age of 5 the majority of children have now already attended one of the many forms of pre-school provision outside the family ( e.g. nursery school , nursery class , playgroup , day nursery , child minder ) . |
| 30 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |