Example sentences of "[verb] one [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can buy one of the many reproduction plaster or fibre-glass cornices by the foot and have it added to your room just under the ceiling or , if you can not afford this luxury , go for a stylish compromise with a paper border . |
| 2 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 3 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
| 4 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 5 | Editor , — K M Citron 's editorial highlights one of the many dilemmas faced in the AIDS era . |
| 6 | This example illustrates one of the many ways in which unconscious , non-linguistic processes may act to control conscious and linguistic articulation . |
| 7 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
| 8 | Rounding one of the many bends in that valley , less than a mile up , they came upon a widening , almost an amphitheatre , where two small streams joined Kale through high banks . |
| 9 | The first was a real horror story for Oxford full-back , Les Robinson , who scored one of the own goals of the season . |
| 10 | You will have attended one of the many art schools or polytechnics . |
| 11 | By the age of 5 the majority of children have now already attended one of the many forms of pre-school provision outside the family ( e.g. nursery school , nursery class , playgroup , day nursery , child minder ) . |
| 12 | We had decided that our last day would be spent sampling one of the many activities which the hotel offered to arrange . |
| 13 | We had decided that our last day would be spent sampling one of the many activities which the hotel offered to arrange . |
| 14 | If you want to change the graphics image that Windows uses for the icon , click on the CHANGE ICON option button and select one of the many icon designs on offer . |
| 15 | If girls are under sixteen , they can either continue at school , have a home tutor , or perhaps attend one of the few projects run specifically for pregnant schoolgirls and schoolgirl mothers , two of which — the Arbour Project in Liverpool and the Barkerend Unit in Bradford — are described here . |
| 16 | Many existing systems which do n't already heat the hot water can be adapted to do so , but if yours ca n't ( an early warm air system , say ) or if you 're installing one of the few types of system that does n't also heat the hot water ( such as electric storage radiators ) , you will have to choose the hot water system . |
| 17 | We sailed from Dover , landing Honfleur , joining one of the many bands plundering across France . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 19 | Bill Parker examines one of the many aircraft parts ledgers . |
| 20 | In Ashar 's attitude one senses one of the many paradoxes of the Iranian revolution . |
| 21 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 22 | He seemed to be haunted by a fear of being forgotten by his friends and Gould became one of the many objects of an obsessive correspondence . |
| 23 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 24 | Daz Sumner , who became one of the few riders to beat Berwick 's powerful Richard Knight on his own track this season , tried to inspire his colleagues but even skipper Steve Regeling struggled for points . |
| 25 | And they even became one of the few luxuries allowed to monks . |
| 26 | He became a sergeant and later , because of an act of suicidal braver , became one of the few men promoted from the ranks to become an officer . |
| 27 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 28 | As Tim Whittome of the Cairngorm Chairlift Company points out , skiing represents one of the few forms of sustainable development in these thinly-populated and sometimes remote areas . |
| 29 | Thus an opportunity had to be missed by the Library Association to assert its outright rejection of library censorship , using one of the few pieces of legislation that ensure that libraries exist and in a manner free from censorship . |
| 30 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |