Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
2 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
3 | It would have meant humiliation , and the end , without much chance of resurrection , of one of the shortest-lived and most disastrous party leaderships in British political history . |
4 | The four-year-old Pebbles who travelled to New York was already one of the toughest and most popular fillies of recent years . |
5 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
6 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
7 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
8 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
9 | It was one of the worst-judged and least successful speeches of his life . |
10 | So STAY A WHILE and discover the beauty and variety of one of the greenest and most tranquil corners of England . |
11 | One of the oddest and most unforseeable side effects of the demolition of the Wall has been an epidemic of rabies among the city 's foxes . |
12 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |
13 | The building of Winston Grange , containing the first flush lavatory in Suffolk , proved a triumph , for in 1860 the third incumbent , a Reverend Mundiford Allen , became one of the best and most loved vicars in East Anglia , and although he died and was buried here in 1910 , stories of his virtue and kindness are still rife . |
14 | For Aurillac is one of the centres for the distribution of the splendid cheese of Cantal , to my mind one of the best and most interesting in France . |
15 | Dorothy Eden , one of the best and most successful writers of romantic suspense novels , used in her earlier days to start her whole book from a name she had chosen , or that had perhaps chosen her by striking a note from the wind-harp in her mind — Seraphine , Blandina , Hariot . |
16 | His article on heraldry in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica remains one of the best and most erudite introductions to the subject : he also made a shorter contribution to Shakespeare 's England ( 1916 ) . |
17 | They were seventy two feet long , built of carvel construction in wood and were powered with Gardner engines , which are still acknowledged as being one of the best and most reliable of diesels . |
18 | Once again , many thanks for your contribution to one of the best and most memorable holidays . |
19 | One of the clearest and most influential was formulated by the linguist Roman Jakobson ( 1960 ) , and further developed by Dell Hymes ( 1962 ) . |
20 | The spectators were all either lining the 18th hole or watching the drama on one of the hundred or so TV sets in the Hospitality Units . |
21 | Without doubt one of the liveliest and most sought after of the Tyrolean resorts , Kitzbuhel offers everything . |
22 | Then — just linger over your coffee and liqueurs and watch the stars come out ( maybe you 'll catch a falling one ! ) — or if you re in the mood , follow your ears ( you 'll be hard pressed not to ! ) and make your way to one of the liveliest and most action-packed nightclubs this side of Manhattan — Sango 's Place ! |
23 | Enterocolitis is one of the rare but potentially fatal manifestations of gold toxicity . |
24 | One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs . |
25 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |
26 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and from MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |
27 | Heading the line-up in the 350cc class is Steve Carter , of Bury St Edmunds , one of the fastest and most consistent riders in the country . |
28 | One of the first and most important results of this change of emphasis was the work done by the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the mid-1960s . |
29 | Micrografx Inc , one of the first and most prominent companies to endorse IBM Corp 's OS/2 2.0 operating system , is backing off developing OS/2 applications , US PC Week reports : ‘ There 's no demand for OS/2 applications , ’ said Paul Grayson , chief executive of the Richardson , Texas , company — ‘ We do n't see the rationale for making additional investments in OS/2 applications when there 's no apparent demand for the ones on the market . ’ |
30 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |