Example sentences of "[verb] one of the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your entry is correct , your name will then be entered in our free draw and you could win one of the 2,500 pairs of Mouton Cadet 1988 and Mouton Cadet Blanc Sec 1989 , that we 're giving away . |
| 2 | For just £30 a year for four years you can buy one of the 550 seats available and have it names after you or someone of your choice . |
| 3 | The addressing mode field is divided into two subfields , each of which specifies one of the 16 accumulators whose contents is to be added to the operand ( or " displacement " ) field to give an effective address : a value of zero in either subfield means no indexing by this field . |
| 4 | Then we visited one of the 13 tombs , which are like underground palaces , built for the Ming Emperors . |
| 5 | If the agent does exist then it must attack one of the two sub-divisions of the body 's immune system . |
| 6 | The same oppositional balance is expressed in more prosaic language by two men who each described one of the two polarities : |
| 7 | It is now a case of getting the support , and raising the funds to secure one of the two routes which are available to us . |
| 8 | Practical Desk Sets or Systems Stations are available to house the pens and , in addition , the KC-1100 range is offered in sets of 12 twin pointed markers , each representing one of the nine colour groups into which the full range is divided . |
| 9 | The journey through the Taste Sensation lasts 10 minutes , with each room representing one of the five senses — smell , sight , sound , touch and taste . |
| 10 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 11 | HIRE a gardener and avoid becoming one of the 30 people the Consumers ' Association estimates will be killed in gardening accidents this year , or one of the more than 30,000 injured . |
| 12 | Some 35,000 still used one of the 140 Credit Unions operating in Britain in the 1990s as cooperative savings and loan clubs . |
| 13 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 14 | Support one of the two items they 've asked for . |
| 15 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 16 | The sum of these probabilities should be 1.0 , meaning that the executive must do one of the four things mentioned . |
| 17 | They are asked to visit one of the 17 windfarms operating in England and Wales and assess whether they enhance or disturb the beauty of the countryside . |
| 18 | He was simply advocating one of the two strands of thought already present in the legal thought and practice of Judaism . |
| 19 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 20 | Soon after his return to England , he was made one of the three commissioners of the Privy Seal , a post he held until the appointment of Arthur Annesley , first Earl of Anglesey [ q.v. ] , as lord privy seal in 1673 superseded the commission . |
| 21 | Consider a juke-box : if you select one of 20 tunes , have you really given the system an instruction or have you merely selected one of the 20 tunes from the repertoire of the machine ? |
| 22 | Toss a line overboard and you quickly catch one of the 500 varieties of fish , most of them delicious to eat . |
| 23 | For basic ingredients it is best to buy one of the 40 pint size kits available from most home brewing shops or from branches of Boots . |
| 24 | This is illustrated by Figure 3.1(c) , which shows one of the five formats of IBM 370 instructions , the RX or " register and indexed storage " format . |
| 25 | To win one of the 10 pairs of tickets we have for each show , simply complete this Shamen hit : Move Any … … |
| 26 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 27 | The tunnel 's exit forms one of the three arches of the bridge over the Dickler at this point . |
| 28 | 30th November 1980 is the closing date for nominating someone to fill one of the four vacancies on the Executive Committee . |
| 29 | When a sperm , with its 23 chromosomes , is made from a body cell with its 46 chromosomes , it only gets one of the two copies of each addressed location . |
| 30 | With a hot needle , he killed one of the two cells of the frog embryo after the first cleavage and then watched the development of the surviving cell . |