Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but if you 're one of the innocent ones . |
| 2 | They 're one of the largest producers in Europe , and with Christmas a coming , it 's harvest time . |
| 3 | And even if the weather is passable , low level walks will take you to places you 'd perhaps never have tried if you 're one of the many walkers whose sights are normally set pretty firmly on the heights . |
| 4 | But , without trying to flatter you , you 're one of the ablest accountants in the City . |
| 5 | Right you 've done the answers to question one Dominic , excellent , well done , you 're one of the best students in the class . |
| 6 | ‘ Naylor tells me you 're one of the best executives in your particular line , ’ Cicely Hepwood , a neat and gentle woman , remarked at one point during the meal . |
| 7 | You can get help with the cost of travel to and from hospital for NHS treatment if you 're one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 8 | Miss Taylor , I think everybody is talking about your appearance but I think you 're one of the greatest actresses in the world and I 've enjoyed a lot of your films . |
| 9 | If , after inspecting your shoes and feet , you find no noticeable problems , then you 're one of the lucky ones . |
| 10 | Or there could be , if you 're one of the lucky winners in our Bully 's Sporting Darts comp ! |
| 11 | We , we 're one of the main centres in the country for that , and some of these erm big apparatuses go to erm well below one milli-kelvin . |
| 12 | Make sure you 're one of the satisfied customers by following this advice from the KSA : |
| 13 | They 're one of the fine universities of Virginia . |
| 14 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 15 | If the ability to ask , to trust another to respond and to feel gratitude are three of the main derivatives of an early partnership and the basis of love , envy is one of the strongest antidotes to loving . |
| 16 | Hotels and catering , clothing , retail , are three of the main Wages Council 's industries , of which we have a large membership . |
| 17 | After all , having some fun , earning some money and getting better at what one does have got to be three of the key elements in business and , potentially , a career in executive search ( in the right environment ) offers all three . |
| 18 | Now Wilkinson has turned the stale escargot into the galloping gourmet of the English game , a player who can be one of the shining lights of the new Premier League season . |
| 19 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 20 | Having said that their newly-released album Going Blank Again is likely to be one of the better buys of the year and tonight 's showing should not have put anyone off . |
| 21 | You 're right about it being good just to be in the premier league and be one of the better teams . |
| 22 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 23 | IF IT were n't for the presence of two eclipses , December would be one of the better months of the year . |
| 24 | Scrutinising this familiar object revealed some untidy details in the first movement : the performers have not quite solved the problem of what must be one of the cruellest openings for an orchestra ever devised . |
| 25 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 26 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 27 | This theory was to be one of the central beliefs of Stukeley 's historical and religious philosophy . |
| 28 | The strong and independent judiciary , acknowledged by the Government in the Green Paper to be one of the central supports upon which our liberties are based and upon which the rule of law depends , will be weakened by the diminishing quality of available recruits and the growing political influence in their appointments . |
| 29 | The continuing high level of inflation was reported to be one of the principal causes of public dissatisfaction with the party , which had been founded by Özal as a broad alliance in 1983 . |
| 30 | Foundations were laid for a rivalry between the two countries which was to be one of the principal causes of the First World War . |