Example sentences of "be one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 2 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 3 | For movement and dance , the Pineapple Studios in the same part of town seems to be one of the best there is , though it is not intended primarily for dancers and actors — people from all sorts of professions come along to keep fit . |
| 4 | CHAMPS will be one of the vertical-market products developed further by the independent company — and an announcement is expected in the autumn . |
| 5 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS will be one of the buzz words at HOTECH '91 , the leading exhibition of technology solutions for the hotel and catering industry . |
| 6 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 7 | Britain must be one of the only countries in the world where the club members manhandle the two-seater gliders all the way out to the launch point . |
| 8 | Being able to land safely in fields should be one of the ultimate aims in glider pilot training and it should not be left to the pilot to decide for himself when he is competent to fly across country . |
| 9 | The attraction between a man and a woman can be one of the most powerful emotions known . |
| 10 | Do Pilier Gris , La Rampe , Tourniayre , Bouscade , Voie des Trous and especially Bibus , which has to be one of the best HVS 's in France ! |
| 11 | The final of the famous Paw-O-Vision song contest will be one of the highlights of the show . |
| 12 | Today , even the most traditional courses in English Literature do not , as a rule , include the English Bible , reasonably thought to be one of the masterpieces of our literature . |
| 13 | But ‘ Hell ’ , the review of Binyon 's Inferno , is particularly important ; for it may well be one of the most careful and illuminating acts of criticism that Pound ever performed . |
| 14 | Australian Mutual Provident executives were yesterday believed to be mounting plans for a takeover which could be one of the largest acquisitions made in the British life insurer sector . |
| 15 | The buyer is said not to be one of the large five record companies — Thorn EMI of the UK , Sony , Warner , Polygram and Bertelsman — which between them dominate 70 per cent of world sales . |
| 16 | Story-reading should be one of the great joys of parenthood , a real meeting of adult and child minds . |
| 17 | You could never , as she said , pretend to be one of the boys in a skirt . |
| 18 | In Leeds , local councillors have been sheepish about releasing plans to local people for what might just prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post-war city centre redevelopments masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and Rob Krier for the Dutch developer MAB . |
| 19 | British Aerospace is said to be one of the key contenders to mount a rescue bid for Ferranti , a vital subcontractor providing navigational and radar equipment for BAe 's military aircraft . |
| 20 | Yardley , a second- or third-change bowler throughout his career , was rightly proud to be one of the very few who could claim to have dismissed Bradman thrice in Test matches . |
| 21 | Scrutinising this familiar object revealed some untidy details in the first movement : the performers have not quite solved the problem of what must be one of the cruellest openings for an orchestra ever devised . |
| 22 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 23 | This will be one of the main tasks facing the Paris meeting . |
| 24 | He still has many supporters , though , among the Western press , who considered him to be one of the few UN bureaucrats with a habit of telling the truth . |
| 25 | Although a competent fighter , Stretch was not considered to be one of the game 's bigger punchers . |
| 26 | A strong Treasury presence is certain , because methods of placing a cost on the environment will be one of the key questions to be decided by the review . |
| 27 | Bennachie ( pronounced pain-ah-hee ) must be one of the most cared-for hills in the country . |
| 28 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 29 | In the hospitals , for example , a Minister of Health who is trying to do his duty must aim at increasing the corporate sense , morale and public esteem of the service , because he knows that this will be one of the ways of raising standards . |
| 30 | This is characteristic of many primitive , taboo-ridden societies , and may be one of the explanations of economic backwardness . |