Example sentences of "it one [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 2 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 3 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 4 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 5 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |
| 6 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 7 | The Intel 386sx TM processor runs at 20Mhz making it one of the fastest SX 's on the market . |
| 8 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 9 | Set up with the expertise of committed , professional staff , the Democrat 's weekly sales of over 9,000 makes it one of the fastest growing weekly papers in the British Isles . |
| 10 | His maximum brought with it one of the fastest race times ever seen in Swindon . |
| 11 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 12 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 13 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 14 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 15 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 16 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 17 | The Sprengel Museum re-opened in May after the completion of a new extension , making it one of the foremost museums for twentieth-century art in Europe ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , Janaury 1992 , p.9 ) . |
| 18 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |
| 19 | If it does decide on Swindon , it would make it one of the biggest re-locations to the town . |
| 20 | Edinburgh 's remarkable collection of libraries , including the copyright National Library of Scotland , makes it one of the best-provided cities in Britain for the study of history , while its archival resources and architectural heritage leave it unrivalled for the pursuit of Scottish history . |
| 21 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 22 | Was n't it one of the simplest magics there was and his grandfather , to say nothing of his great-grandfather ( who had lived long and fared well ) passing it down to him . |
| 23 | The internal length of this ‘ new cathedral ’ , 357 feet , made it one of the longest churches in Britain and certainly the greatest in Scotland . |
| 24 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 25 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |