Example sentences of "of our [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dating back to medieval times , Britain 's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures . |
| 2 | Dating back to medieval times , Britain 's historic houses are one of our greatest treasures . |
| 3 | And of course the tragic death , far too early really , for Danny Blanchflower cut down by disease , and er one of the greatest footballers , I suppose , not only of his generation , but of anyone 's generation and er , how sad it is , that we should lose two of our greatest footballers in this one year . |
| 4 | ‘ And one of our greatest scientists , Rassilon , announced that he had discovered the principles of time travel . |
| 5 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 6 | ‘ At any moment , the audience could have thrown chairs at me , but I wanted to bring up one of our greatest fears and make people really laugh about it . ’ |
| 7 | Next to Werner , Tan Hans Yong was to become one of our greatest friends and benefactors . |
| 8 | One of our greatest pleasures was collecting early morning provisions from the farm . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats recognise that the NHS is one of our greatest assets and would guarantee an annual increase of 2pc funding . |
| 10 | For example , some of our greatest melodies are given settings of the greatest simplicity , and to add ‘ counterpoints ’ would rob the music of some of its beauty . |
| 11 | But if we do , we should also discern in them the origins of the teamwork and collaboration that we have brought to an unparalleled peak of complexity and that has brought us some of our greatest achievements . |
| 12 | ‘ William Shakespeare was one of our greatest play-wrights . |
| 13 | Two of our greatest fans were the 1968 West Indian Cricket team and the Duke Ellington Orchestra they gave us a standsing ovation . |
| 14 | It is , however , more than a commitment of our best efforts — it is a commitment to what is best for the object of that love . |
| 15 | He is one of our best comedy writers and we should ennoble him before sitcom is abolished in favour of something horrible . |
| 16 | In fact we played some of our best stuff of the season against Leicester in this competition with fringe players in the side . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He used to come in twice a week and was one of our best customers , ’ says manager Moni Ahmed . |
| 18 | One of our best customers only watches . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ One of our best customers … ’ |
| 20 | Cargill boasts in its company brochure that ‘ some of our best customers have never heard of us ’ ( Morgan , 1979 , p. 4 ) . |
| 21 | Most people nowadays would agree that a good pub is one of our best traditions and a vital and distinctive ingredient of our national way of life . |
| 22 | Some of our best friends nurture a virus , an idle , |
| 23 | As I keep saying , our visual and verbal behaviour is one of our best bodyguards . |
| 24 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 25 | This excellent French-run hotel has now become firmly established as one of our best hotels in Lloret and we 're pleased to feature it as our Club Choice in the Costa Brava for this summer . |
| 26 | Throughout all our travails we have always known we wished to stay in the business which is the repository of our Organic Chemical skills and has been the parent of many of our best operations . |
| 27 | On a first reading it seems puzzling that the ‘ Poorer Growth ’ camps should be those of five or six of our best camp managers whose experience of diet is exceptional , and that the ‘ Good Growth ’ camps should include two Managers whose catering has constantly to be reviewed as not up to our standard . |
| 28 | To see what he means , take a look at any Premier League match and compare the body movements of our best defenders like Keown and Adams with Italians like Baresi and Bergomi . |
| 29 | If Wilko 's so keen to have Shez in the team that he 's willing to lose one of our best defenders , then why did he sell the man in the first place ? |
| 30 | so all of our best defenders who are not yet on contract will travel to Britain real soon now — Nilsen&Pedersen for sure : Johnsen is not yet offered a contract at Spurs . |