Example sentences of "[subord] one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Clive Barnes — later to become one of the ‘ Butchers of Broadway ’ , as critic for the New York Times wrote : ‘ Although One Over The Eight is described as a ‘ new revue ’ do not for a moment be fooled .
2 The judge did not regard the case as one at the higher end of the culpable homicide scale but a human life had been taken and he jailed Sutherland for five years .
3 Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) .
4 Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa .
5 Standing as one during the vital mixing stage of the album , the group asked Allison to leave the studio when the atmosphere became too tense , and he waited outside while the band finished the job themselves .
6 How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ?
7 One of the letters in the practical was the same weight as one in the written test .
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