Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] be [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hemingway text selected for the exercise is one of the many vignettes peppered throughout the In our time collection . |
| 2 | Poison For the Heart is one of a collection of computer ‘ books ’ for thinkers . |
| 3 | Change for the Angel was one of the increasing number of plays in the late Fifties and early Sixties to confront audiences with working-class culture . |
| 4 | Beck and Azinger birdied just about every hole and the fourball betterball for the match was 14 under par for 17 holes . |
| 5 | Such was the classical repertoire of Michael Peto , a photographer of the Fifties and Sixties who , during 20 years of work for The Observer was one of the best exponents of a fast-disappearing attitude . |
| 6 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 7 | A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland . |
| 8 | The chairman of the council was one of the victims losing his seat to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 9 | And there , over the tops of the trees that grew on falling ground to their north , there on the other side of the valley was one of the liveliest country houses she had ever seen . |
| 10 | The renaissance of the raisin is one of the great US marketing success stories . |
| 11 | That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts . |
| 12 | Bob Torrance explains why rotating the left forearm at the start of the backswing is one of the keys to good golf . |
| 13 | The correct feeling in the arms from the top of the backswing is one of leaving the right shoulder where it is and moving away from it . |
| 14 | The Parable of the Sower is one of the most well known of all the parables . |
| 15 | The proposed line of the barrage was one of several options considered in the early feasibility studies . |
| 16 | The face value of the contract is 25 per full index point and the futures price is quoted in index points . |
| 17 | The image of the government was one of strength in domestic affairs . |
| 18 | The preparation of the title is one of those tasks that can be undertaken in advance of a transaction being negotiated , and should form part of the early work of a seller 's conveyancer . |
| 19 | Painful inflammation of the prostate is one of the main reasons that men under 50 consult their doctors , and experts believe that as many as three-quarters of some groups of men aged 30 to 50 suffer from it in some form . |
| 20 | The out-fields were badly cultivated , cattle husbandry almost impossible , trees a luxury on small plots where land could not be ‘ wasted ’ ; the sheer cadastral complexity of the system was one of the most serious bars to badly needed systems of agricultural credit for the small man . |
| 21 | To prove my point of the play being one of opposites , the two main place where the play is set — Venice and Belmont — are opposites in themselves . |
| 22 | A major change in the composition of the index is one of the gambles inherent in this form of rent review . |
| 23 | The House vote in favour of the bill was 275 to 152 , 10 votes short of the requisite majority for an override . |
| 24 | But if any legal expression is a term of art , breach of the peace is one of them . |
| 25 | But , more important , I believe that celebration of the other and devaluing of the self is one of the oldest , as it is one of the permanent ways by which human beings express love or admiration for each other . |
| 26 | The extent of the RTA was one of horrific injuries ( will try to tidy up police-speak ) … children lying about . |
| 27 | The ritualised killing of the king is one of the most archaic and widespread rites of early civilised man . |
| 28 | Dogs are very responsive animals , and the tone of the voice is one of the most powerful tools in the trainer 's repertoire . |
| 29 | Fortunately , it does not present an insurmountable obstacle ; as I shall seek to show , the importance of the relationship is one of mutual reinforcement . |
| 30 | The image of the CAB is one of action and advocacy — the adviser will ‘ do ’ something for the client or at least tell the client what to do . |