Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the technique — be it radiocarbon , TL , or one of the many others — there are optimal circumstances under which it works best . |
| 2 | You might try drinking mineral water or fruit juice or one of the many varieties of herbal teas with their delicate and delicious flavours . |
| 3 | Clare Gittings suggests that one of the many reasons why embalming decreased during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was distaste on the part of the nobility — not so much with the practice itself as with the thought of having so many surgeons , apothecaries and wax-chandlers poring over a body at any one time . |
| 4 | The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres . |
| 5 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 6 | The hotel is very modern and pleasant , and one of the many skyscrapers in the middle of Campinas . |
| 7 | It is still one of the great passions of the Old Delhi-wallahs , and one of the many habits which distinguishes them from their Punjabi neighbours in the New City . |
| 8 | For three hundred years , until around 1934 , Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture , and one of the former factories , Chart Mills , was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society , when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate . |
| 9 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 10 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 11 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 12 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
| 13 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 14 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 15 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 16 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 17 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 18 | ( 1983 ) and one of the few volumes in its field is Herington ( 1984 ) . |
| 19 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
| 20 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 21 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 22 | At pains to point out that ‘ O ’ Level Eng Lit. was the sole exam he had ever failed , Fordham 's continuing interest in these bizarre tutorials — in the face of ribald comment both from his colleagues and mine — was but one of the many facts which confirmed a certain singularity amongst cricketers . |
| 23 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 24 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 25 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 26 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 27 | as one of the many kinds of sprouting seeds , eaten when germinated seeds are a few cm tall ; lightly roasted ground seeds used in curry ; also used in Middle Eastern sweets such as halva ; fresh leaves used in curry dishes |
| 28 | In 1835 , as one of the few surveyors with geological knowledge , he was seconded to work with ( Sir ) Henry de la Beche [ q.v. ] to add geological data to the Cornish OS sheets . |
| 29 | As one of the few insurgents with military experience he was a valuable recruit . |
| 30 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |