Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] things [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends say the singer , at No. 6 with The Best Things In Life Are Free , has dedicated herself 100 per cent to her role in the new movie Poetic Justice , leaving little time for Rene . |
| 2 | But one of the oddest things about the anorexic is her ability to tolerate two deprivations in particular which others find quite intolerable , namely , cold and hunger . |
| 3 | And I still think one of the oddest things in this case is why Stratton did n't see his wife safely up to her room . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One of the distinctive things about modern Darwinism is that it exploded the myth of group selection . |
| 6 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 7 | Well , better than that , and one of the best things about it is the fact that so few people , except the French themselves , bother with it . |
| 8 | One of the best things about the Acapulco apartments is its ideal location — only a five minute walk from the Veronicas nightlife centre of Las Americas . |
| 9 | One of the best things about doing a talk show is that you get the chance to meet people you 've admired for years . |
| 10 | One of the best things about the Empire army is that it can accommodate almost any style of play . |
| 11 | One of the best things about this game is the fact that there 's only one level ; no annoying multiload . |
| 12 | So that 's going to be one of the best things about being here — going to lots of concerts that I 'd never be able to see back home . |
| 13 | One of the best things about advertising is the people , creative people that is . |
| 14 | When the play ran at Stratford last year , their partnership was described by Charles Spencer , The Daily Telegraph 's critic , as ‘ one of the best things in the production , a superb study of a relationship in which passion and mutual vexation compete for dominance ’ . |
| 15 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 16 | One of the great things about drama school is what you learn to reject as much as what you actually learn . |
| 17 | One of the great things about mountain walking in Austria is that no matter where you go , you never seem to be far from a mountain hut serving food and drinks to refresh you . |
| 18 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
| 19 | One of the great things about Center Parcs is that you get away from the ‘ I 'm Rubbish ’ Syndrome . |
| 20 | One of the great things about gardening is that we can constantly change . |
| 21 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 22 | One of the great things about these utilities is the frequency with which they 're updated . |
| 23 | That is one of the great things about the club golfer he is so stoical and resistant to his own poor play . |
| 24 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 25 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 26 | One of the nicest things about the house is that it is virtually as it was in 1906 , and with all its rooms of manageable size . |
| 27 | One of the key things for the male is to time his departure from the first female correctly . |
| 28 | Well I was hoping it 'd be interesting I mean I thought this was one of the key things at the training day I went to and I picked |
| 29 | But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something . |
| 30 | When times are good , people spend relatively more on gambling ; when they are bad , gambling expenditure is one of the first things to be cut back . |