Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So conclude briefly there in that the City Council does support the the broad thrust of the County 's two policies here but we would ask for clarification on I five on the actual level of provision we should be providing on our local plan . |
| 2 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 3 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 4 | ‘ I am trying to suggest that since it is clear that Artai wants you out of Kinsai , you ought to think about asking him to award you one of the new Khanates . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you one of the young Harvey-Beaumonts , from over in England ? ’ she asked excitedly . |
| 6 | Were you one of the five ? |
| 7 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 8 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 9 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 10 | Above them one of the dark squares in the shadow moved aside . |
| 11 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 12 | Somewhere behind them one of the younger squires had been pulled from his mount , and was sitting dizzily on the grass nursing a shocked head in his hands , too stunned to give any further trouble . |
| 13 | But sometimes the whole piece is entirely delightful , and if the person who now runs the Royal Palace at Turin would care to send over to me one of the two stools called Item 55 in the catalogue as a present , I would be very happy . |
| 14 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |
| 15 | The Sixth is for me one of the greatest symphonies — and so seldom played in the past ! |
| 16 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 17 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 18 | Professor Davie 's further remarks ( on pp. 164 and 165 of the same book ) must not be missed ; they seem to me one of the high points of modern appreciation of Wordsworth 's greatness . |
| 19 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 20 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 21 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 22 | Tom handed him one of the two small buff-coloured boxes and they both slung them over their shoulders and set off . |
| 23 | Shortly after joining the company a local business man asked Charles Fletcher to build him one of the new flying machines . |
| 24 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |
| 25 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 26 | He was a perceptive developer of the promising research of others , having that rare combination of commercial acumen and technical expertise , making him one of the great engineers . |
| 27 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 28 | As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age . |
| 29 | This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today . |
| 30 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |