Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] things [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the best things to have happened to the French this year . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ One of the best things to have come out of this is the realisation that there are people who really do care about us and about Graham , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 3 | The sum of these probabilities should be 1.0 , meaning that the executive must do one of the four things mentioned . |
| 4 | One of the key things to think about is action verbs . |
| 5 | The large and unmistakable clay phallus for insertion in a wall is one of the first things to greet us as we enter the exhibition . |
| 6 | One of the first things to go are the costumes and articles of adornment which identify that culture with its roots . |
| 7 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 8 | One of the first things required in the practice of tai chi chuan is to come to terms with its slow , dreamlike movements . |
| 9 | Its neon-lit name was one of the first things visiting ships saw as they entered the harbour . |
| 10 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 11 | Hair is always on show and it 's one of the first things to suffer from the effects of poor diet , pregnancy , the menopause and stress . |
| 12 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 13 | It is one of the funniest things to see . |
| 14 | One of the eight virtues of a well-ruled kingdom was just judgement , one of the seven things befitting a righteous king the provision of just judgement for friend and stranger alike . |
| 15 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 16 | Cleaning is one of the easiest things to get organised . |
| 17 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 18 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 19 | The pressure of foreign debt has been one of the main things pushing Poland and Hungary towards freer markets , and one dominant problem in most East European economies is too much cash and too-fast inflation . |
| 20 | My boss is very clever and thinks that presentation is one of the main things to think about . |
| 21 | One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats . |
| 22 | ‘ The length of the toe bone is one of the last things to change in the loss of arboreality , ’ said Lovejoy . |
| 23 | ‘ That form of music definitely works best when it is kept simple , which does n't , of course , mean that it 's easy to do ; being inventive within a restricted format is one of the hardest things to do . |
| 24 | Perfection seems one of the hardest things to give out . |
| 25 | It could be argued back , however , that intent is one of the hardest things to prove . |
| 26 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |