Example sentences of "us one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give us one of the real giants in the semi-finals with a 15,000 crowd and the chance to say ‘ thanks for the money ’ on the way out . |
| 2 | We now serve 70,000 school meals daily , making us one of the largest providers of educational catering in the country . |
| 3 | Though it may never be possible fully to understand what converts a man to a religion , Eliot 's view of Baudelaire gives us one of the best guides to his own conversion to Christianity . |
| 4 | Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book . |
| 5 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 6 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 7 | WHICH MUST MAKE US ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING NAMES IN THE RUNNING BUSINESS . |