Example sentences of "[vb infin] of one " in BNC.

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1 The Minister will know of one trainer , Astra Training Services , because he paid it to take the skill centres away .
2 She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself .
3 Rousseau ( 1762 , p. 147 ) did approve of one book : ‘ This is the first book Émile will read ; for a long time it will form his whole library and it will always retain an honoured place .
4 That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received .
5 Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana .
6 ‘ Yes , I can think of one or two people who might have wanted to harm her , as you suggest .
7 I honestly can not think of one good thing which Labour proposes to do .
8 I can not think of one argument against staying warm and dry .
9 ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship .
10 ‘ When sport is trying to come to terms with economic reality , I can think of one area in the business which will say as a result of this that they can not associate themselves with it — sponsorship .
11 ‘ I can think of one client where almost 90% of their income is generated outside the UK .
12 ‘ I can think of one firm that I think had tried to pull the wool over our eyes for many years .
13 I think the monarchy is stopping us from being a classless society but I ca n't think of one country in the world whether it 's communist , whether it 's a new country like Australia what does n't have the rich , the poor , the upper class and the lower
14 Well I can think of one M S one in our er office who I 'd be quite erm quite happy with him doing all the project eng engineering duties except finance .
15 But somehow Folly could only think of one person who might have sent her so tantalising a message .
16 If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen .
17 And we ca n't think of one fucking thing to do .
18 At one point the heroine wants to go out , but can only think of one place to go with a baby in a pram : the launderette .
19 I can think of one c comment Chairman .
20 It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ?
21 The mortar should consist of one part cement to four parts of soft builders sand .
22 As St Paul reminds us , the body does not consist of one member but of many .
23 A message may only consist of one command containing a maximum of three valid characters and must be terminated by a carriage return character ( Hex 0D ) .
24 On February 1st 1803 the committee decided that the medical establishment for the Bedford Infirmary should consist of one physician , two surgeons-in-ordinary , and one house surgeon/apothecary combined .
25 Since there was no meat left now , the ration from now on until the supplies were exhausted would consist of one handful of either rice or dal and one of flour per person , the men being given a more generous helping than the women and children .
26 As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word .
27 The proposed new course will consist of one double-credit , nationally-developed unit , ‘ Quality assurance management ’ , plus additional options to the value of a further two credits .
28 These Heads of Agreement may consist of one of more copies hereof signed by or on behalf of one or more of the parties hereto .
29 ‘ The entire planet will eventually consist of one vast chanting inhuman crowd . ’
30 In an action for recovery of land , the particulars must give : ( 1 ) a full description of the land ; ( 2 ) the net annual value for rating , or , if the land does not consist of one or more hereditaments having a separate net annual value for rating : ( a ) where the land forms part of a hereditament having a net annual value not exceeding the county court limit ( see under " Limits of County Court Jurisdiction " ) , the net annual value of that hereditament , or ( b ) in any other case , the value of the land by the year ; ( See as to NAV — Chapter 29 ) ( 3 ) the rent , if any , of the land ; ( 4 ) the grounds on which possession is claimed ; ( 5 ) in a case under s 138 of the 1984 Act ( proceedings to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture for non-payment of rent ) , the daily rate at which the rent in arrear or mesne profits are to be calculated ; ( 6 ) in proceedings for forfeiture the name and address of any underlessee or mortgagee entitled to claim relief against forfeiture and a copy of the particulars of claim for that person ( Ord 6 , r 3(2) ) ; ( 7 ) a claim for arrears of rent and mesne profits should be included if applicable ( see Chapter 16 ) .
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