Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from the tourist beaches , this idyllically simple three-storey home would serve as a sort of Base Camp One for our more ambitious sorties into the extremities of the nation . |
| 2 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 3 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 4 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 5 | However , it also reflects government recognition that health has become one of its most vulnerable policy areas . |
| 6 | Eventually , a distinction came Aarau 's way which resulted in one of its most striking thoroughfares . |
| 7 | The focal point is the Rathaus ( town hall ) , with a fine sixteenth-century tower that dominates the many charming houses in the vicinity , and one of its most striking houses offers a reminder that the Swiss have been at the business of looking after travellers for a long time . |
| 8 | Losing his life in the crash of Avro York in the foothills of the Alps late in 1944 , there is no doubt that despite the controversy that still surrounds the Big Wing theory , the RAF lost one of its most brilliant commanders . |
| 9 | The government claimed on Jan. 16 that security forces had destroyed the rebels ' headquarters , but on the following day the BRA staged one of its most spectacular actions to date when it attacked the island 's prison , releasing all Bougainville inmates and killing five prison officers . |
| 10 | The birth of science , and its bitterest pill , the Darwinian Theory of Evolution , was to be oddly influenced by Indonesia , and can be partly traced through the subtle relationship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace , which recent evidence strongly suggests produced not only one of the most revolutionary achievements in the history of science but also one of its most intriguing deceptions . |
| 11 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |
| 12 | After the Restoration Garway was in 1661 returned to Parliament for Chichester , and quickly became one of its most assiduous members . |
| 13 | Moreover , the government 's attitude would undoubtedly have been coloured by the intriguing possibility of having one of its most prominent members — namely , Michael Foot — among the defendants at the Old Bailey . |
| 14 | The coast and Whitby with its harbour , ruined abbey and museum , where you can learn about one of its most famous inhabitants , Captain Cook , is only 9 miles away . |
| 15 | And if empty pews and soaring divorce rates are not evidence enough of its dwindling authority , one of its most famous figures has just been defrocked . |
| 16 | The Prodrive motor sport team in Banbury has taken on one of its most testing projects yet . |
| 17 | Whatever may be our private feelings about the modern scholarship on Posidonius , one of its most durable results is the reconstruction of Posidonius ' chapters on the Celts . |
| 18 | EDMUND Garvey was an old-fashioned policeman who became a controversial head of the Irish Republic 's force during one of its most turbulent periods . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is this central ambiguity in its relation to the world , and the specific form that this ambiguity takes , which is one of its most distinctive features . |
| 20 | The story 's silence concerning Sarah is one of its most terrible aspects . |
| 21 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |
| 22 | CDC 's Denmark operation has been one of its most successful subsidiaries by concentrating on software and integration services . |
| 23 | As the theatre approached its first anniversary , this proved to be one of its most successful plays . |
| 24 | Many of the names on our contributors list have benefited from the scheme , but perhaps the final word on the subject should go to one of its most successful graduates : Davey Philips , co-founder of Edinburgh 's Clan Skates and winner of this year 's Prince 's Trust Award for Industry . |
| 25 | Fans of the mystery novel have been meeting in Oxford to celebrate the centenary of one of its most successful crime writers . |
| 26 | Philip Pouncey 's death at the age of eighty in 1990 ( see The Art Newspaper No.3 , December 1990 , p. 2 ) robbed Old Master drawings studies of its greatest connoisseur and one of its most valued personalities . |
| 27 | Thus the RAF and the nation were deprived of one of its most gallant battle leaders , amongst the bravest of the brave — I knew them all , I walked in their shadows . |
| 28 | Although only around one-third as important as consumption in total aggregate demand , investment is arguably one of its most significant components . |
| 29 | One of its most significant features is the choice of a gas turbine rather than internal combustion engine . |
| 30 | The history and origins of Qawaali music through the songs of one of its most acclaimed exponents . |