Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Social workers later discovered that one of the children 's grandmothers had offered to look after them , but was told other arrangements had been made .
2 General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed and 50 wounded .
3 General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed .
4 Welcome back : It 's St Patrick 's Day , and one of the regions ' most talented musical families is celebrating with a fantasy voyage into the past .
5 Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?
6 Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move .
7 Deputy editor Matthew Symonds said the only way the move could be economic was if one of The Times 's rivals was forced out of business .
8 Failing him , Sir Giles Shaw , a former minister but more widely seen as one of the back-benchers ' own , would be suitable .
9 When one of the women 's social service homes was under threat of closure they suggested , " Do n't close yours .
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