Example sentences of "one [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been one of the saddest episodes in the whole climbing-village soap-opera . |
| 2 | From this unpromising inheritance Leopold had created by the end of his reign , at least on paper , one of the best-governed states in Europe . |
| 3 | Why is it that when Ken Livingstone ( Political column , 1 May ) , one of the wittiest sparks in the rather dullish firmament of contemporary Labour , leaves the safe sound-bite pages of the Sun and ventures his hand at joined-up paragraphs , he goes so badly awry ? |
| 4 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 5 | Notably , he ran up against director Henry Hathaway who was known as one of the toughest directors in the business , and Hopper had a minor role in From Hell to Texas . |
| 6 | But things are not always so idyllic — because this is Angola , and one of the toughest assignments in XFI 's portfolio . |
| 7 | Television bosses maintain they have tight controls on TV violence , while the film censor claims to operate one of the toughest regimes in the western world . |
| 8 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |
| 9 | He had a shot out of sand of about 35 to 40 yards into the wind which is probably one of the toughest shots in golf . |
| 10 | ‘ He seems to keep his best golf for the ‘ big ones ’ , and is still one of the toughest competitors in the game . |
| 11 | BBC Network Television director Will Wyatt said : ‘ Jonathan has done one of the toughest jobs in television for longer than almost all of his predecessors . ’ |
| 12 | Hers is one of the toughest jobs in the show . |
| 13 | Hers is one of the toughest jobs in the show . |
| 14 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 15 | One of the crucial skills in the art/science of SFX is knowing just how much detail is needed or desirable . |
| 16 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
| 17 | John Baldessari is one of the crucial figures in the re-direction of approaches to the visual arts in the past two decades . |
| 18 | One of the crucial issues in such studies is whether the time-lag allowed is the right one and had Walters allowed twenty instead of ten years , she might have reached different conclusions . |
| 19 | One of the crucial features in any management buy-out is the quality of the managers themselves . |
| 20 | The Spanish candidacy is being supported by Turin , one of the six cities in which the six seeds will be based for the first round . |
| 21 | A high score in a series of heats had to be accumulated to guarantee a good semi-final position , and qualify for one of the six places in the final . |
| 22 | Lojze Peterle , Chairman of the Slovene Christian Democratic Party ( one of the six parties in the DEMOS alliance which had won the Slovene Assembly elections in April — see p. 37381 ) , was elected President of the Slovene Executive Council ( Prime Minister ) by the new Slovene Assembly on May 16 . |
| 23 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 24 | ULSTER horse The Committee , one of the fancied runners in the Grand National , will be ridden by English-based jockey Norman Williamson . |
| 25 | One of the epic stories in the history of the SAS comes from this period of raiding the coastal railway . |
| 26 | He was one of the still points in her sparsely peopled universe . |
| 27 | It is probably one of the cruellest ironies in the evolution and development of any major world religion . |
| 28 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 29 | The bits of this instruction can be set so that its execution leaves any one of the following values in the accumulator : How can this be achieved ? |
| 30 | ‘ Sub-woofer ’ is one of the current buzz-terms in the audio world , extensively used by hi-fi salesmen intent on baffling the poor punter with tech-speak . |