Example sentences of "[pron] one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 2 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 3 | Its one of the best four or five vintages of this century . |
| 4 | ’ We 'd all like to see less and less chemicals carried on the motorways , but unfortunately , it 's a fact of life that its one of the best ways for them to get the stuff around . ’ |
| 5 | we , its one of the only countries in the world where children can go and in a non judged mental way , a panel can work out what the best thing is to do with them , its unique . |
| 6 | 1 Daley Thompson is famous for which one of the following ? |
| 7 | 3 Which one of the following is aerobic exercise ? |
| 8 | Which one of the following never stood for Parliament as a Liberal : Ludovic Kennedy , Robin Day , Richard Dimbleby , John Arlott ? |
| 9 | Fifteen , which one of the following does not affect the premium rate . |
| 10 | The human tells the computer which one of the current litter of progeny to breed from . |
| 11 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 12 | Consider , in particular , the case in which one of the two causes of density variation produces an increase with height and the other a decrease . |
| 13 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 14 | Scottish Nuclear 's power station at Hunterston is the first site at which one of the strong-motion seismic-event recorders , recently developed by BGS , has been installed . |
| 15 | Yes , well I mean I 'm particularly interested for people to come along to the Cowley Centre stall , er and we also sell on the Cowley Road at our plant nursery which one of the other groups runs down near the east Oxford Health Centre . |
| 16 | The impression given by de la Broquière of the Mufti as a chiefly religious figure is strengthened by the only two known incidents in which one of the first three " traditional " Muftis was actively involved in his capacity as Mufti , namely Fahreddin Acemi 's rout of the Hurufis and his taking the chief seat in the debate on both of which incidents find parallels in the careers of later Muftis . |
| 17 | Is it really that long ago since ALF carried out a bombing campaign during which one of the injured was a child in his pushchair , almost killed by flying shrapnel ? |
| 18 | She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) . |
| 19 | A different illustration is provided by the collaboration in 1983–84 between the ILEA and the London Institute of Education , in which one of the former 's advisory teachers acted as placement tutor for six students from the emotional/behavioural difficulties option of the latter 's Diploma Course . |
| 20 | Which one of the above five would you choose as a priority ? |
| 21 | Note that there are two sizes of both ES and BC ( the smaller ones are labelled SES and SBC ) , so it is vital that you check which one of the four connections your light fitting takes before buying the lamps . |
| 22 | As it turned out , parents found it best to ask Olwyn which one of the four rewards on the menu she preferred on any successful night . |
| 23 | Apollinaire , who at the time was fascinated by the interrelation of the arts , and was exploring the visual possibilities of poetry in his Calligrammes ( for which one of the original titles was Moi aussi je suis peintre ) , was inspired by Delaunay 's paintings Les Fenêtres to compose , late in 1912 , his poem of the same name , in which the means are to a certain extent analogous . |
| 24 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 25 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 26 | Depending on which one of the three is dominant , we have a predominantly Socratic or artistic or tragic culture — or , in historical terms , Alexandrian or Hellenic or Buddhistic . |
| 27 | But which one of the three star signs did he belong to ? she wondered . |
| 28 | Ramsay was essentially unhappy with the baroque idiom , of which one of the basic tenets is inherent movement , which he found difficult to express . |
| 29 | Yet at 1130 hrs that morning a Corps Commander 's Conference had been held at 5 Corps HQ [ Kp 217 ] at which one of the main topics discussed had been " the Evacuation of the Cossacks to the Russians " and under this heading the decision had been taken that : " Divs will be prepared to shoot at Cossacks to enforce the evacuation plan . " |
| 30 | No true craft can be learned overnight , but with time and patience and the correct teaching it is possible to reap the rewards which one of the oldest crafts can bring . |