Example sentences of "one of [pron] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not one of its better days . |
| 2 | It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations . |
| 3 | You might also venture to talk to your wife , in one of her calmer moments . |
| 4 | At first relations were kept quite close by sending a monk from Cluny herself or one of her elder daughters to supervise the new foundation and be its first prior ; and the abbot of Cluny received the professions of all new monks and appointed many of the priors personally . |
| 5 | These implied that one of her younger brothers , an immature boy who had n't reached puberty , had been sexually abusing both herself and a younger sister . |
| 6 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 7 | She had walked for four days , and lost one of her younger children on the way . |
| 8 | In one of her braver moods , Pat once asked him about homosexuals . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's one of her quieter efforts . |
| 10 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 11 | While admitting it was not one of their better performances , Wyllie stressed there was a great deal of pressure on the Colleges younger players . |
| 12 | In Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. , before the Macedonian conquest , in the golden classical age , richly documented , we contemplate federations and empires of cities grouped under one of their greater neighbours , Athens , Sparta , Thebes or another . |
| 13 | In 1914 they launched what was one of their crazier attacks , and on 4th June , the deaf community of Dundee was very nearly the victim when a massive bomb was placed against the doorway of Dunhope Castle , the home of Dundee School for the Deaf and the Dundee Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 14 | Fern Lodge , Highgate , was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe . |
| 15 | Hearts had n't scored three goals at home in a league match since August and , apart from the introduction of Thomas , it was thanks to one of their brighter performances in midfield that they defeated Falkirk with something to spare . |
| 16 | Oh , no , ’ she corrected herself as she remembered one of their earlier conversations , ‘ I forgot — you 're in property . |
| 17 | That 's one of their bolder sides . |
| 18 | Back in Johannesburg after the war , Herbert began to practise law in partnership with one of his elder brothers , James , but later went off to Europe for a year to study law in Vienna . |
| 19 | Early in 1923 , Dad had to go hurriedly to Devon to attend the funeral of one of his elder brothers , Uncle Fred , who had died as the result of a heart attack at the early age of forty-seven . |
| 20 | Fortunately , Vivienne had argued Malcolm out of one of his crazier ideas . |
| 21 | During the debate on the Exchange Rate Mechanism on 23 October 1990 , he made one of his lengthier contributions . |
| 22 | I looked at Jack Mason who just shook his head , gave one of his sourer smiles , and then also holed out for a four . |
| 23 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 24 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 25 | But 1992 has not been one of his better years with only ten winners so far . |
| 26 | Jack Watson 's figures 0–52 from 16 overs do suggest it was n't one of his better days , however . |
| 27 | The words were scarcely out before one of his taller companions clamped a hand round the back of his neck and with a dusty , unshod foot kicked his buttocks , exposed through his torn shorts . |
| 28 | Once , in one of his younger sermons ( Liverpool , on John 20 : 21–2 ) , he gave a hint of what it was like with the psychologist . |
| 29 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 30 | Next to Ormesby Hall and surrounded by ancient trees is the Church where Cook 's elder brother , John , and one of his younger sisters were baptised . |