Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very hardy Aponogeton , and one of the best to grow in the aquarium . |
| 2 | The readiness of the poor to appeal over the heads of overseers to the magistrates suggests this . |
| 3 | The frightening prospects described in the Limits to Growth model may have driven geographers of the 1970s to turn to the problems of smaller areas . |
| 4 | Samsung Electronics Co 's workstation division last week introduced its SWS715 Hewlett-Packard clone workstation , one of the first to emerge onto the market . |
| 5 | I wonder , bearing in mind that incident , however serious , or minor it was , would you be one of the first to go through the Channel Tunnel ? |
| 6 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 7 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 8 | The Queen Mother was one of the first to arrive on the scene . |
| 9 | The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out . |
| 10 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 11 | Mr Livingstone was one of the first to step into the debate on Friday , claiming that Mr Smith 's plans had frightened middle-income earners . |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed a bill might be one of the first to come before the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 13 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 14 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 15 | His mother is one of the first to benefit from the use of the new monitor . |
| 16 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 17 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 18 | This is for the proportions of the elderly to decline in the populations of some large , traditional retirement resorts , such as Bournemouth and Torquay , and to rise in adjacent and nearby local authorities . |
| 19 | A leading former contra leader , Israel Galeano , 38 , known as Commander Franklin , and one of the last to surrender after the victory of Chamorro in the February 1990 presidential election , was killed in a car accident near Matagalpa on May 4 . |
| 20 | This is unusual for a city , because of the normal desire of the wealthy to live outside the city . |