Example sentences of "one [prep] the [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 2 | You 're one of the stupidest people I know . ’ |
| 3 | This means that one of the following people must be proved to have had the necessary knowledge or to have been reckless : the ‘ directors , the managing director ’ or perhaps ‘ other superior officers of the company , ’ Tesco Supermarkets v. Nattrass ( 1972 H.L. ) . |
| 4 | Friedrich Bettelheim was one of the young people who benefited from Greta Burkill 's efforts . |
| 5 | One of the young people from our party carried the banner that led us . |
| 6 | When that particular shooting star was shot he became an anti-Vietnam war protester , a Chicago convention activist , one of the young people who campaigned vociferously for George McGovern ( though , like everyone else , he actually voted for Nixon ) . |
| 7 | Steve , an unemployed 22-year-old from Middlesbrough , is one of the young people who sees Ecstasy or E as perfectly normal . |
| 8 | she 'll probably be one of the cleverest people you 'll ever meet |
| 9 | Murphy is insistent that one of the best people he has available to him is n't even on the payroll — his wife Lynne , who used to be in the PR industry herself . |
| 10 | I 'm one of the best people |
| 11 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 12 | Jeff still rates as one of the nicest people I have ever met . |
| 13 | Muddy was one of the nicest people I 've ever met and yet you would n't guess that he would be such a sweet guy . |
| 14 | ‘ She was one of the nicest people I ever met , ’ said a theatrical acquaintance who knew nothing of her terrorist background . |
| 15 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 16 | One of the key people to chart the course of reconstruction and development practice was William Holford ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 18 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 19 | He went to a qualified medical practitioner for his first experience in 1963 and , according to himself , became one of the first people in the country to take the drug . |
| 20 | One of the first people in the field to recognise the possibility of trading successfully with older customers was a Folkestone hotelier , Sidney De Haan . |
| 21 | One of the first people , perhaps the first , to spot that biological polymers would tend to be helical was a Californian physicist , H. R. Crane . |
| 22 | She used drab greys and browns in tiny Fair Isle patterns and was one of the first people I knew to use drop shoulders . |
| 23 | Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary . |
| 24 | Berry explained : ‘ We got into base camp with the group of trekkers on May 8 and one of the first people I ran into was Krishchaty , just by chance . |
| 25 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 26 | He went on to explain that Blufton was one of the first people to start seeing how much money could be made in the independent TV sector — the little companies that mushroomed all over Soho . |
| 27 | When he started making enquiries into the Josephs ’ business affairs in France you were obviously one of the first people he 'd ask . |
| 28 | Once back in London , one of the first people I wanted to meet was Eliot . |
| 29 | Billy Hamilton , who retired from Rentokil several years ago , [ formerly working with Pest Control in Belfast and still collecting debts for the company ] has become one of the first people in Northern Ireland to be presented with a commemorative medal from the Soviet authorities . |
| 30 | Politically well yes he 's involved at every level as indeed many comrades are but if , the sign of his political influence , I think is as follows that if there are any anything major going down in his territory any major political problems coming up , then the leader of the council , one of the first people he contacts is Eric . |