Example sentences of "as one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This monologue of fears about the moral downfall of the common people as the result of debased amusements , stretching back across more than two centuries , must be counted as one of the determining traditions within the unfolding preoccupation with the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 2 | However , many of the jockeys described it as one of the roughest races they had ridden in . |
| 3 | From the publication , in 1946 , of his book The Affairs of the Poles Osmanczyk 's constant call was for Polish-German reconciliation as one of the essential steps towards the creation of a new , permanently conflict-free Europe . |
| 4 | The 31-year-old Chemics ' stand off , who must count as one of the unluckiest players in the game because of persistent injury problems , added : ‘ I shall wait to hear what the specialist says before deciding whether to play on or not . ’ |
| 5 | The number of times a region was labelled as one of the above classes is shown as a percentage of the actual phonemes in the hand transcriptions . |
| 6 | The actual status of Ham Hill is uncertain , but as one of the largest hillforts in the region it was probably occupied on the eve of the conquest , much like its counterpart at South Cadbury to the east . |
| 7 | This tree is familiar to botanists because it has the largest seed known , as well as one of the largest leaves . |
| 8 | He 's this year 's all British Scrambling Champion , is regarded as one of the best riders in Gloucestershire and in the last 12 months , he 's won dozens of awards and trophies and he was only 7 last week . |
| 9 | The year will be remembered as one of the best times we ever had . |
| 10 | McCleod was widely regarded as one of the best centre-forwards in the country , and several clubs were interested in him . |
| 11 | Peter Simpson , who must rank as one of the best centre-forwards in the history of the club , first came to the notice of Crystal Palace patrons when Palace met Kettering Town in the 1st Round of the FA Cup on 24 November 1928 . |
| 12 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 13 | Cattle bred by Richard Tudor Jones , acknowledged as one of the best breeders and judges around , are widespread through registered herds . |
| 14 | But Simon Fowler , Stockton North Conservative candidate hit back , saying he was ‘ fed up ’ with North Tees Hospital , which he regarded as one of the best institutions in the area , being ‘ slagged off ’ by Mr Cook . |
| 15 | This project was identified by the recent Price Waterhouse study as one of the best opportunities BGS had to exploit its data and expertise . |
| 16 | Thomas Ingram , Queen Victoria 's head gardener at Frogmore and Windsor , showed the apple to a meeting of the British Pomological Society in December 1856 , when it was acclaimed as one of the best kinds for the table , ‘ sweet , aromatic and very tender , a fair sized and handsome fruit ’ . |
| 17 | toni Palmer was born on Majorca , and he did n't leave it until he was 18 , where he won an award as one of the best employees in the bank where he worked . |
| 18 | For all of the above reasons , and many more , Paul Merton is now seriously challenging as one of the funniest men in Britain . |
| 19 | Access to the OPAC is cited by humanities departments as one of the key benefits that campus local area networking can bring , both to identify appropriate material and its location and potentially for document supply ( electronic or otherwise ) . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine , who has emerged as one of the key figures in Mr Major 's administration , will be expected to help Britain out of recession and inspire hard-pressed business and industry . |
| 21 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 22 | As one of the regional Vice-presidents , he was an ex officio member of the executive committee , but his attendances were irregular . |
| 23 | For him , and ultimately consequential as one of the prime presuppositions of variable analysis , science does not deal with " things-in-themselves " but with their manifested properties or attributes . |
| 24 | Both these methods of construction were taken up by continental masters , and Benet holds an important place as one of the early creators of the Mass cycle , the leading musical form of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 25 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 26 | This argument carried the day , despite Ramsay 's protests , and it was decided to send Keith , the Knight Marischal , as one of the major officers of state , to head the relieving party and to take over the governorship meantime . |
| 27 | The prison officers have been seen as one of the major reasons for , not one of the victims of , the mismanagement of the prison service . |
| 28 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 29 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 30 | It had taken £50,000 to bring Bobby back to the Palace from Leicester , but it was money well spent , for his presence was regarded by many as one of the major factors in Palace 's 1972 survival — and we recouped f 12,000 of it when Bobby bustled off to join Pompey just after Christmas . |