Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman 's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison . |
| 2 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 3 | It was certainly not one of the many studied effects which Paul had variously condemned as ‘ ludicrous ’ , ‘ over the top ’ , ‘ outrageous ’ , ‘ dingy ’ , or — most damaging of all — ‘ silly ’ . |
| 4 | Gothic twist : just one of the many exhibits at the annual Buckinghamshire College Design Degree Show , which featured craft and manufactured furniture . |
| 5 | One of the many new stations opened with the help of local government finance . |
| 6 | The failure finally to secure 18 pubs from Bass , which would have boosted Hoskin 's estate to 29 , must have dented market confidence , a confidence that needs to be regained if they are not to be swallowed by one of the many new thrusting pub retailers actively seeking new acquisitions . |
| 7 | Choose one of the many pre-cut stencil designs on the market , or make your own from card . |
| 8 | FRANCIS GOODMAN was one of the many bright talents that flourished in the art of taking fashion and portrait photographs in London in the 1930s . |
| 9 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 10 | One of the many dangers for South Africa 's evolution is that each move which President de Klerk makes will be discounted in advance by the opposition . |
| 11 | The years in Lubyanka prison in Moscow transformed Wallenberg into a hostage of the Cold War , and then into one of the many errors of the Stalinist period whose truth became too ghastly to reveal . |
| 12 | One of the many adverse criticisms of Albert Ferrasse and Jacques Fouroux is that , for involved reasons of French rugby politics , they have ostracised the Toulouse club together with such players as Denis Charvet and Eric Bonneval , who would walk on merit into any northern hemisphere XV . |
| 13 | It is one of the many strengths of Coetzee 's work that he recognizes the disruptive potential of the new organizations , but he concludes that ultimately they were of benefit to the Conservatives . |
| 14 | His research work at the university 's petroleum warfare department led indirectly to him joining Esso , and within weeks he was faced with one of the many challenges that were to punctuate his rise to the top of the industry . |
| 15 | There was a momentary hesitation while he considered the implications , but it was one of the many challenges he could n't let go . |
| 16 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 17 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 18 | The folly was a gift from the Sultan of Oman , just one of the many presents that now adorn the property . |
| 19 | Tennis is just one of the many sports you can enjoy at Springs(3) . |
| 20 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 21 | Explain that loo becomes unnecessary — one of the many benefits of death . |
| 22 | This is a true story of one of the many tragedies of apartheid — a white South African policeman falls in love with a woman of mixed race , resigns from his job and goes to live with her in Cape Town . |
| 23 | If disaster strikes and the company is outbid by one of the many expected rivals for its lucrative London franchise — the largest in Britain — Reeves could provide a bolt-hole . |
| 24 | One of the many benefits of this proposal will be the readiness of more defendants to plead guilty , thus reducing the length of the trau matic process . |
| 25 | ONE OF THE few quotable quotes attributed to Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssoen Quisling , uttered with contempt on one of the many occasions when his Norwegian countrymen rejected him , is : ‘ Ibsen knew his people . ’ |
| 26 | ONE of the many weapons of control — and one of the most intimidating — employed by the General Noriega was the civil militia known as the Dignity Battalions . |
| 27 | So you sign up with one of the many armed and mobile security patrols that operate in the white suburbs . |
| 28 | Does he remember King Levinsky , one of the many heavy bags for Joe Louis , in the corridor after the Miami Beach weigh-in ? |
| 29 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 30 | Some of the ancient lecture theatres had been well preserved , like the Aula de Fray Luis de Leon , named after one of the many notable scholars who have graced its pulpit-lectern . |