Example sentences of "[prep] [num] of [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly , he called out two licence plate numbers ; one of these , except for one digit , turned out to match the number plate of one of the kidnappers ' vans . |
| 3 | In the event of a failure of one of the lexicographers ' printers , the 3812 may be configured for their use . |
| 4 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 5 | But the Aussies have now decided that the Central Park clash might divert players ' minds from the build-up to the final , with eight of the Broncos ' side in the Kangaroos squad . |
| 6 | You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons . |
| 7 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 8 | But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called . |
| 9 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 10 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 11 | She had enjoyed bringing him goodies from the kitchen — ends of puddings in one of the dogs ' dishes , the last remains of cakes , meat , bones — only chicken bones , because they were so bad for the dogs . |
| 12 | Speaking to one of the workers in one of the children 's homes , said do you think that child prostitution in the children 's homes is something new because it 's on the front of the T and A ? |
| 13 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 14 | Then in answer to Merrill 's raised eyebrows , ‘ They 're from one of the children 's homes . |
| 15 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 16 | Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) A reference to a Rule is a reference to one of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 18 | I was , I was alright at the weekend , that 's my Darlington meeting and she was talking to one of the boys erm the one that lives at Filey . |
| 19 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 20 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
| 21 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 22 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
| 23 | The youngest daughter Mary , a gifted academic in later life , was still at one of the Girls ' Public School Trust schools at Wimbledon , and the only son , Lancelot , was at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 24 | At the police station he was confronted by one of the children 's angry mother . |