Example sentences of "one of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 2 | It 's one of a dozen drugs of its kind currently being researched . |
| 3 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 4 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 5 | The city of Nagpur in the State of Maharashtra , located at the geographical centre of India , was considered to be the capital of their empire formerly known as Naga Dwipa , one of the surviving relics of old India known as Bharata Varsha . |
| 6 | b , Each curve shows the trace in the longitude-velocity diagram of one of the closed orbits of a , when the orbit is viewed along the dotted lines . |
| 7 | There was no sound in the house , apart from what might have been the twittering of a caged bird coming from one of the closed doors on the ground floor . |
| 8 | One of the saddest effects of the radical trade unionism of recent years is that it has divided teacher from teacher , head teacher from staff , teachers from ancillary workers , schools from parents . |
| 9 | It has been one of the saddest episodes in the whole climbing-village soap-opera . |
| 10 | Perry McCarthy had one of the saddest days of his racing career . |
| 11 | News did not come , but V.E. Day did , and I have to confess that it was one of the saddest days of my life . |
| 12 | But they forget that flowers are sent not only as a mark of respect for the dead , but also as a gesture of sympathy to the living , suffering widow , to bring some of the hopeful beauty of nature to soften the bleakness of one of the saddest days of her life , and to show her how much the one she loved was also loved by others . |
| 13 | Higson said : ‘ Today is one of the saddest days of my life . |
| 14 | One of the saddest aspects of AIDS is the plight of children infected with HIV . |
| 15 | LACK of communication is one of the saddest aspects of having a mentally handicapped child . |
| 16 | One of the saddest aspects of such family tragedy is that the statistics of divorce among Christians are not all that different from the rest of society . |
| 17 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | COCTEAU , poet , painter , novelist , playwright , muralist , designer and film maker , whose centenary it is this year and whose ceramics are on show at the David Gill gallery in west London , was also one of the wittiest dressers of his time . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Its size and shape shows it is ‘ one of the posterior ribs of a small cetacean similar to species of the modern dolphin genera Tursiops or Lagenorhynchus . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone throughout the game was disgusted , ’ said Wright , as England manager Graham Taylor faces one of the toughest decisions of his life over the Liverpool winger . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But things are not always so idyllic — because this is Angola , and one of the toughest assignments in XFI 's portfolio . |
| 26 | Thousands were out along the route to watch one of the toughest stages of the event . |
| 27 | It makes the coming three months in India and Sri Lanka one of the toughest challenges of my career . |
| 28 | But in turning around Eldorado 's fortunes , she knows she faces one of the toughest challenges of her 30-year career . |
| 29 | Driving a 1960 Austin Healy Sprite on one of the toughest routes of the year , they won the North Armagh Club 's Orchard Rally by a convincing 17 point margin from the class two crew of Neil Fletcher and John Erwin . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's trapped … and facing one of the toughest weeks of his life ’ |