Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
2 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
3 | At this point , under the ICE Conditions of Contract ( 5th edition ) , the engineer should carry out one of the following actions require the contractor to estimate the cost of the proposed remedial measures |
4 | That would wipe out one of the central government 's most important sources of power : control over foreign-currency earnings . |
5 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |