Example sentences of "[prep] [be] one of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 2 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 3 | Pinto beans have the distinction of being one of the quickest beans to cook . |
| 4 | The tapir has the distinction of being one of the oldest forms of mammal . |
| 5 | Thomas Deloney , reckoned to be England 's first novelist , mentions dastardly goings-on there in the late 1500s , so the Ostrich has the distinction of being one of the half a dozen claimants to the title of oldest inn in England , and is also the first mentioned in an English novel . |
| 6 | And there are some wonderfully positive people among those who have permanent disabilities or terminal illnesses so it is not just a case of being one of the ‘ lucky ’ ones . |
| 7 | Coefficient b shows the direct effect of being one of the richer respondents on preparedness to break the law . |
| 8 | Jose and his wife , Iara , live in the shanty town of Jacarezinha in Caxias , which has the reputation of being one of the most violent in Rio . |
| 9 | The holograms on every spread of Ghost Train ( Orchard , £9.99 ) are genuinely spooky , and with its amusing story Stephon Wyllie stands a chance of being one of the top sellers this Christmas , along with new editions of former top-sellers such as Roald Dahl 's The Giraffe and The Pelly And Me ( Cape £8.99 ) . |
| 10 | During the 1920s and '30s , Chance had the now dubious honour of being one of the best-known egg-collectors in Britain . |
| 11 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 12 | Whilst Chesterton 's later justified reputation of being one of the most rabid anti-semites connected with British fascism would suggest that this was like asking a cat to drink a bowl of cream , there is little evidence to suggest that prior to his involvement in the BUF he viewed the world primarily through anti-semitic spectacles , despite being a second cousin to such notorious anti-semites as Cecil and G.K. Chesterton . |
| 13 | If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’ |
| 14 | M67 has the reputation of being one of the most ancient of the open clusters . |
| 15 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 16 | Over the years Blackpool has earned its reputation of being one of the most famous seaside resorts in England . |
| 17 | The department has the advantage of being one of the oldest and therefore best supported in the country . |
| 18 | I had the honour and privilege of being one of the veteran marchers , and the cheering and applause was unbelievable and very emotional . |
| 19 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |
| 20 | ‘ The mill has the reputation of being one of the most energy-efficient in the world , ’ he said . |
| 21 | like er according to the , the , the scripture , the son of destruction which , I do n't know whether it points towards Judas Iscariot of being one of the , the sons of destruction . |
| 22 | Despite being one of the earliest volunteers of the war , Leslie died a junior officer . |
| 23 | Leapor recognizes the skill , but these lines follow hard on a suggestion that Sophronia is pretentious despite being one of the ‘ menial Train' . |
| 24 | It is one of football 's great mysteries why Clough senior won only two caps , despite being one of the deadliest strikers of the late 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 25 | Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain , until recently it had not been studied in detail . |
| 26 | Despite being one of the major streams of modern sociological thought , the theoretical tradition founded by Max Weber ( 1964–1920 ) has to date produced little explicitly Weberian penology . |
| 27 | The Polish Telecommunications Co , previously the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telecommunications Company until it was separated from the Post last January , looks like being one of the first to run IBM 's mainframe version of AIX on its E9000 Series mainframe . |
| 28 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 29 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 30 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |