Example sentences of "[adv] one of the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This paper , whose own political position is uncertain , is perhaps one of the freest spirits in Nigeria 's mass media constellation . |
2 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
3 | ‘ Perhaps one of the new singers would be better — that little creature who did small parts last year , dark hair , pleasant little tinkling voice ? ’ |
4 | This is perhaps one of the noblest legacies of the Enlightenment . |
5 | Perhaps one of the best examples of that , could be found at a recent tournament , where , after suffering considerable pain during a match , she declined the soothing comforts of an ice pack in the clubhouse . |
6 | Perhaps one of the best autobiographies ( although written in the third person ) is Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , followed by her later ( and not , in my opinion , as good ) Still Glides the Stream ( 1948 ) . |
7 | The result is perhaps one of the best insider looks at Concorde yet available . |
8 | The description of the landscape of parliamentary enclosure is perhaps one of the best that Professor Hoskins ever wrote . |
9 | Perhaps one of the best subjects about which to exercise one 's imagination , and any detective urge one may have , is the standing stones , which are to be found all over the island singly , in groups or in one case in an ellipse . |
10 | Now this is not perhaps one of the best of Spitzer 's analyses , and in any case it contains a great deal more than we have space to repeat here . |
11 | Johnson and Douglas ( 1978 : 151 ) point out that the Equity Funding scandal , ‘ perhaps one of the largest securities and investment frauds ever perpetuated on the American public , … involved more losses than the total losses of all street crime in the US for one year ’ . |
12 | Perhaps one of the tiny members of the creche may live to see the bi-centenary ! |
13 | Perhaps one of the finest examples of Norman Church Architecture in the region — simple in form yet richly ornate . |
14 | I think wind power is perhaps one of the alternative energy sources which is erm nearest to being able to be applied and utilised immediately . |
15 | Perhaps one of the greatest inhibitors of performance is fear or anxiety . |
16 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
17 | This appointment as adviser of a practising physician in charge of a big , busy clinic was perhaps one of the major factors in the evolution of a co-ordinated service throughout the country . |
18 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
19 | In both England and France the need to make armies mobile was perhaps one of the major developments of the period , and shows how important versatility was coming to be regarded by the leaders of the day . |
20 | Carpets are perhaps one of the biggest and most important furnishing investments in any home . |
21 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
22 | Polybius ' misgivings about the future of Rome had proved justified — and this was perhaps one of the main reasons why Posidonius decided to continue his work . |
23 | But perhaps one of the main reasons for abandoning monetary targets was the desire to prevent exchange rate fluctuations , and the use of changes in interest rates to achieve this . |
24 | Oil Mill was perhaps one of the under-capitalised mills for it still relied entirely on outdoor weavers . |
25 | This is perhaps one of the few areas in which more research may provide genuinely useful insights for more realistic conservation programmes . |
26 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
27 | Georgia O'Keeffe is perhaps one of the few . |
28 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
29 | Perhaps one of the younger men present , a member of a popular committee , could have argued that there is no real distinction : religion and politics are not separate , ‘ Islam and socialism ’ , as the Libyan slogan had it , are one . |
30 | Perhaps one of the Aquatic Societies will take up the challenge . |