Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was the first one to experience this sort of pressure , while players like Ian Wright and Keith Curle can go for extraordinary amounts but they escaped because they were not the record signings . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 3 | In effect , however , he was letting it be known that Mr Heseltine would not be the only interventionist candidate for the leadership -nor the only one to feel more enthusiasm about Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | She was the only one to show any sadness on their behalf . |
| 5 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |
| 6 | The concessions impressed the public , but were worthless without a new policy decision at the same political level as the original one to re-introduce interrogation-in-depth techniques . |