Example sentences of "make [pron] one of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 2 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 3 | This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today . |
| 4 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 5 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 6 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 7 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 8 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 9 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 10 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 11 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 12 | If it does decide on Swindon , it would make it one of the biggest re-locations to the town . |
| 13 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 14 | The internal length of this ‘ new cathedral ’ , 357 feet , made it one of the longest churches in Britain and certainly the greatest in Scotland . |
| 15 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 16 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 17 | He was a perceptive developer of the promising research of others , having that rare combination of commercial acumen and technical expertise , making him one of the great engineers . |
| 18 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |
| 19 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 20 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 21 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 22 | The Intel 386sx TM processor runs at 20Mhz making it one of the fastest SX 's on the market . |
| 23 | The Sprengel Museum re-opened in May after the completion of a new extension , making it one of the foremost museums for twentieth-century art in Europe ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , Janaury 1992 , p.9 ) . |
| 24 | There are seventeen individually furnished bedrooms ( making it one of the larger hotels in this guide ) , all with en suite facilities and colour TV . |
| 25 | Now Hector 's is in the limelight not only in New Zealand but also internationally , as efforts to save this unique species are making it one of the conservation success stories of the world . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |
| 27 | We now serve 70,000 school meals daily , making us one of the largest providers of educational catering in the country . |
| 28 | WHICH MUST MAKE US ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING NAMES IN THE RUNNING BUSINESS . |
| 29 | As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age . |
| 30 | ‘ He reached the World semi-final last year at Bradford which makes him one of the top 32 riders in the world . |