Example sentences of "one of the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically in the area of machine translation the lack of success with linguistic-based second generation methods is noticeable , only one of the commercially available MT systems uses generative techniques . |
| 2 | Hirst and Peters explain that the confusion arises because one of the logically necessary conditions for the existence of punishment , that it must be inflicted on an offender as a consequence of a breach of rules , is closely linked to the idea that a breach of rules is a breach of discipline . |
| 3 | For he had revealed one of the eternally popular effects of nature , one which is still quoted by simple people as a standard of visual beauty . |
| 4 | Tonight his face is framed by one of the intricately patterned , knitted skull-caps with earflaps that are traditional wear here for the clear , cold nights . |
| 5 | MaliVai Washington is just one of the slowly growing group of black athletes who have made tennis their preferred option , even above baseball and basketball . |
| 6 | ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education . |
| 7 | I felt I was looking quite authentic , in the guise of one of the nearly extinct Grislewings of Egertro . |
| 8 | Sooner or later an approach shot to one of the closely guarded greens will nestle near the hole and suddenly all is right with the world . |
| 9 | Is it of a one-piece nylon construction that will be easy to clean , solid wood — usually beech — or one of the increasingly common metal sided drawers with a solid base ? |
| 10 | In fact , the electoral effects of scare-stories about immigration and asylum may be one of the so-far unrecognised aspects of the campaign , partly because such stories have not so far featured prominently among the factors of mass-media coverage to which the Labour Party has attributed its own defeat . |
| 11 | It was a warm day , one of the best that summer , and they ate on the terrace . |
| 12 | When you listen to one of the rather better Kylie records , they have taken a girl who does n't really have a great voice , who is an actress , and slowly they have developed a career where she actually now has a sound which is similar to some of the girly groups in the 60 ’ s , in a totally different way . |
| 13 | One of the rather elaborate and erm potentially unreliable components in a washing machine is the controller . |
| 14 | The first is the place of mathematics in any scheme of ‘ science ’ , a problem not only for positivism but for any theory of knowledge ; as Schwab ( 1964 ) notes , mathematics is one of the perenially puzzling disciplines . |
| 15 | I knew her husband was away on one of the seemingly endless ‘ summit , conferences governments of the world , and especially the Arab governments , invent to try to keep our human condition in existence . |
| 16 | At the same time the use of animal characters is clearly one of the persistently funny elements in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 17 | One of the most spectacular parts of the route is on the stretch from Port St Mary to Port Erin where the rocky cliffs soar from the sea . |
| 18 | This makes it one of the most spectacular parts of Britain to visit . |
| 19 | Next came one of the most spectacular sections of the whole Trans-Siberian , the Circumbaikal line , which skirts Lake Baikal . |
| 20 | Kuala Lumpur acquired at the beginning of the century one of the most spectacular stations in Asia , where building and train-shed were conceived as one architectural whole and the trains entered what seemed like a cross between an extravagant Oriental palace and a mosque . |
| 21 | One of the most spectacular failures within the Prussian Polenpolitik was that of the Ansiedlungskomission or Royal Prussian Colonisation Commission . |
| 22 | The Scribbled Anthias is one of the most spectacular species of Fairy Basslets to be occasionally available to the hobbyist . |
| 23 | And to drive up in style , there 's one of the most spectacular cars ever built , the 200mph McLaren F1 coupe . |
| 24 | What good news it is that SNH have given a £7,000 grant for repair work on the path to Blaven , one of the most spectacular mountains in the Skye Cuillin . |
| 25 | Again Michael Draper , General Manager of the SVR , all staff and volunteers should be offered the highest congratulations for providing one of the most spectacular events in the social calendar of 1992 . |
| 26 | Shimazaki 's aircraft accounted for several ships in the harbour and in dry dock , one of the most spectacular explosions occurred at 0930hrs when fire reached the forward magazine of the destroyer Shaw . |
| 27 | Set in over 500 acres of mature parkland , Wollaton Hall is one of the most spectacular and ornate Tudor buildings in England . |
| 28 | One of the most spectacular training methods at one licensed dealer was the floor contest . |
| 29 | It proved to be one of the most spectacular diplomatic misjudgements in history . |
| 30 | One of the most spectacular of such closures was that of the American-owned Caterpillar tractor factory in Strathclyde in 1987 , which was announced with great suddenness from the Detroit headquarters simply because of the corporation 's international overcapacity . |