Example sentences of "one of [art] [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Smith had joined the paper in 1962 from the local Liverpudlian press and had gained kudos/notoriety from being one of The Beatles ' early champions . |
| 2 | One of the Teams ' main aims is to reduce unemployment in the area and in this regard the Teams work closely with other government bodies . |
| 3 | It was ‘ policy in love ’ , ‘ policy ’ being one of the Elizabethans ' two or three most derogatory words , denoting hyper-cunning and treachery . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) A reference to a Rule is a reference to one of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 5 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 6 | Reviewing the situation at the end of the year , Lindsay Cooke , one of the Greens ' 1989 spokespeople , thought despondently that the movement 's share of the poll had shrunk because of a lack of publicity . |
| 7 | " Even if you are not winning the seat , you are affecting the outcome in [ key marginals ] like Dulwich and York " said Dr Richard Lawson , one of the Greens ' two principle speakers . |
| 8 | For instance , the appearance of the partitive expression " one of the ministers ' later in the narrative presupposes an earlier reference to the group of ministers as a whole . |
| 9 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 10 | The youngest daughter Mary , a gifted academic in later life , was still at one of the Girls ' Public School Trust schools at Wimbledon , and the only son , Lancelot , was at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 11 | One of the Sharmas ' own witnesses even admitted on the stand that the dogs could n't be the ones they claimed . |
| 12 | One of the apprentices ' last projects was to build a microlight aircraft to fly to Gibraltar . |
| 13 | Law and order should be one of the Tories ' strongest cards , but record crime figures have tarnished their record . |
| 14 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 15 | The decision removed one of the rebels ' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo 's position at the negotiating table . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 17 | Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports . |
| 18 | One of the chemists ' major aims is to discover why these particular compounds work . |
| 19 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 20 | Failing him , Sir Giles Shaw , a former minister but more widely seen as one of the back-benchers ' own , would be suitable . |
| 21 | The crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media . |
| 22 | There will be no sections for the different media : the crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media . |
| 23 | Mr Teague accused him of taking a sheath knife to one of the Roberts ' foster sons and saying ‘ no body messes with the Godfather of Gwalchmai . ’ |
| 24 | This was liberally interspersed with launch picnics , swimming , the services of a chef flown specially from one of the malais ' two five-star hotels back home , and ‘ ethnic entertainments ’ . |
| 25 | The Commission welcomes the much improved standard of instrumental playing which is one of the schools ' greatest recent success stories . |
| 26 | Some in the polytechnics fear the changes , allowing them to become universities , will amount to a takeover , and in a second dispute , they have accused one of the universities ' ruling bodies of poaching senior staff . |
| 27 | Government spokesmen had indicated on June 11 a willingness to consider one of the protestors ' later demands , namely the opening up of an independent television station . |
| 28 | The tiny circuit is a paradise for fast starters and with odd exceptions this is not one of the Bears ' strong points . |
| 29 | The Scots ' other two tries came from the St Andrews wing , David Hall , both scores resulting from crisp handling in the midfield , where Peter Flockhart at inside centre was one of the Scots ' big successes . |
| 30 | Hard by to the south of the lower lake is the huge upstanding molar of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau , grimly handsome with , on its eastern slopes , what is by all accounts one of the Pyrenees ' largest populations of izard . |