Example sentences of "is [num] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young designers to have suffered a similar fate to Ronay include Val Piriou , Joe Casely-Hayford and John Galliano , although Galliano is one of the luckier ones . |
| 2 | Lesley Taylor 's son David is one of the luckier victims of the A 48 . |
| 3 | It is one of the closer stars , at a distance of only 36 light-years , and is 115 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 4 | That is one of the friendlier charges Wessis level at their brethren in the ‘ new federal states ’ ( a description Ossis loathe because it slights the history of regions like Saxony and Brandenburg ) . |
| 5 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 6 | They looked as solid as reasonable to expect in the circumstances … the midfield were looking to get forward , and being caught on the break is fair enough when chasing a cup tie … and Goodman is one of the better players around … suprisingly fast . |
| 7 | ah to be fair Terry is one of the better commanders |
| 8 | The Danish system for dealing with sexually transmitted diseases is one of the better ones in Europe , and the impetus for this is provided by the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen . |
| 9 | RAF Manston Air Day 1992 ( Production Partnership , 57 mins , colour , £12.99 ) is one of the better ones . |
| 10 | This is one of the better fairs with a wide range of goods to buy from worldwide . |
| 11 | I 'm quite partial to large quantities of the black stuff and Mc Swiggans is one of the better places in the country to get it , ( Guinness that is ) |
| 12 | ‘ This is one of the better days in the history of the motor dealing industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Investing in the stock market is one of the better ways of protecting your capital and getting some income . |
| 14 | The present campanile is one of the better features of the building . |
| 15 | It is one of the wilder places on earth and contains rainforest , and boa constrictors . |
| 16 | However , it is worth noting that Sigma ( 4.7 ) , between Delta and Epsilon and in the same field with Epsilon , is one of the nearer stars , only 19 light-years away and only about a third as luminous as the Sun . |
| 17 | Motivation research is one of the newer aspects of marketing research , and since it concentrates on motives and attitudes , it relies heavily on the expertise of psychologists for the design of and interpretation of its surveys . |
| 18 | If you sold to the target on a on a revenue there of a two and a half thousand , which is one of the smaller surgeries , we will pay thirty percent on all of that right ? |
| 19 | KORALOONA , eighteen miles long , eleven miles wide , is one of the smaller islands in the Moto Varu ( Seven Islands ) archipelago , of which Sanders Island is the largest ( pop . |
| 20 | International House — Northumbria is one of the smaller schools in the International House Organisation . |
| 21 | It is one of the longer galleries . |
| 22 | Adaptation is one of the longer chapters since it exemplifies fitness . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll put you in my memoirs ’ is one of the handier cliches of literary wooing . |
| 24 | That really , I mean that 's six marks on the yellow paper , at that level that 's really six per cent , but really it 's all , that , that 's , that , looking at that , that is one of the easier questions I would deal out , very easy . |
| 25 | IT is one of the quieter moments in a campaign as raucous as a New York gridlock . |
| 26 | Spontaneous combustion in a yellow shirt is one of the kinder expressions applicable to England striker Wright 's appalling bickering and back-chat at The Dell . |
| 27 | Handling naughtiness is one of the thornier issues that parents have to face . |
| 28 | Certainly leisure is one of the harder areas of the everyday life of our sample to investigate . |
| 29 | Hosts : Ruminants Site : Small intestine Species : Bunostomum trigonocephalum sheep and goats B. phlebotomum cattle Distribution : Worldwide Gross : Bunostomum is one of the larger nematodes of the small intestine of ruminants , being 1.0-3.0 cm long and characteristically hooked at the anterior end . |
| 30 | This is one of the later ammonites , in which the normal ammonite plane spiral has begun to ‘ unwind ’ in various ways . |