Example sentences of "one [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 2 | The rate depends on the engine size , and gives two figures : one for the first 4,000 miles , with the second rate for all business mileage over 4,000 miles . |
| 3 | My daughter had stumbled into Pitfall Number One for the unwary green consumer — the ‘ Bit-Less-Bad ’ trap . |
| 4 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 5 | It is highly unlikely that you are reading this book if you happen to be one of the fortunate few ! |
| 6 | Appalachian English is one of the surviving non-standard regional dialects of English in the United States and it 's associated with the residents of the Appalachian mountain range . |
| 7 | BOB DOE , Fighter Pilot is the autobiography of one of the surviving high scoring aces of the RAF during the Battle of Britain . |
| 8 | These included two Mae Wests from Don Bennett 's Halifax , a section of one of the specially-adapted naval mines that were carried by the Halifaxes , various flying helmets , a leather flying suit and a rudder from Lancaster L7572 ‘ L ’ . |
| 9 | Gray , one of the sweetest left backs of his generation , took over a vibrant team . |
| 10 | Typically , Morelli participated in one of the Swiss glacial expeditions organised by Louis Agassiz . |
| 11 | The new county borough proved to be one of the shortest-lived local authorities in local government history . |
| 12 | In 1940 I was fortunate to find a summer job in the local tomato factory , one of the innumerable similar factories scattered in the Parma province . |
| 13 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 14 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 15 | For the most part , such solutions ultimately tend to one of the stable steady state solutions — thus confirming , for example , that the consequence of the instability of the rest configuration when r > 1 is a transition to one of the two steady solutions with circulation . |
| 16 | He spent one year ( 1855–6 ) as director of the Vienna State Ballet , one of the grand cultural ballet centres . |
| 17 | It is said that Joshua Reynolds , one of the Grand Old Men of English art , was instrumental in defining the successful modern portrait . |
| 18 | In July 1988 , Stefan Dactu , one of the Romanian architectural planners , insisted on the uniformity of internal designs for the pre-fabricated blocks in which people were being rehoused throughout the country : ‘ The designing of [ internal ] spaces is in keeping with a unitary legislation . |
| 19 | She put out a hand to touch one of the ribbed blue and yellow vases on the marble mantelpiece . |
| 20 | Even so , there was not one of the six hundred and forty-eight servants — man , woman or girl — who was not present . |
| 21 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 22 | In 1989 in a television piece , Daley Thompson picked Ben 's run as one of the six greatest performances of all time , and I have to agree with that . |
| 23 | Simply select a shampoo and conditioner to suit your hair type and choose one of the six intensive conditioners as an occasional treat ! |
| 24 | And one of the six Tory MPs who signed a critical Commons motion today on V A T on fuel , came to the rally to deliver this warning to the government . |
| 25 | Information arrival was proxied by daily futures and spot volatility estimated in one of the six different ways . |
| 26 | One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’ |
| 27 | In 1990 Tesco made the Association the beneficiary of one of the six nationwide collections that it allows in its stores . |
| 28 | Spitfire Vb BR226 on one of the six special ‘ Queen Mary ’ cradles constructed to take the aircraft to Glasgow Docks . |
| 29 | The beautiful and historic town of Buxton , in the Peak District of Derbyshire , is source of one of the purest natural mineral waters in the world . |
| 30 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |