Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] great [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | How often , in my past life , I had claimed that one of the great benefits the nineteenth century had conferred on the West had been science 's liberation of thought and feeling from organized religion . |
2 | One of the great difficulties a teacher has is to recognise a good drawing or painting from a bad one — or to know when a child has achieved through his effort a simple personal expression . |
3 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
4 | To be forbidden to speak and write one 's own native tongue is one of the greatest punishments a cruel dictator can inflict upon a proudly independent people : it was one of the Franco regime 's most despicable crimes against humanity . |
5 | Well one of the greatest qualities a fisherman can have is of course patience . |
6 | A ‘ Grolier ’ binding is one of the greatest treasures a collector could wish for . |