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

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1 Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings .
2 from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear .
3 ‘ Brigitte Krone : she was living with one of the families Gustav hid up with that winter .
4 Alternatively , the case can be modelled upon an actual case in one of the Trials Series ( below , p.233 ) .
5 The weapon is carried by Engineers either on horseback or in one of the Engineers School 's War Wagons .
6 This is deliberate : in one of the adventures time spent in the Castle is of crucial importance .
7 He had read somewhere , possibly in one of the books Elinor was always reading , that people under totalitarian regimes had no access to their past .
8 ‘ He 's in one of the police cars ! ’
9 Most of them had done their basic training in one of the Guards regiments and most had completed the Commando course .
10 As she did so , a shot cracked across the ridge , from one of the police marksmen .
11 There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses , delirious on to the stone floor .
12 erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before .
13 Eddie Hemmings is already inked in , but Nick Cook — still trying to puzzle out why he has been brought here but overlooked in favour of Keith Medlycott for the West Indies — may end up as one of the drinks carriers .
14 He was always prone to grotesque mistakes ( as listed in the note ) BUT he also provided World Class saves regularly , and but for his lapses would probably rank as one of the worlds greats .
15 Soutar to change on of his days for one of the days John has to spend here .
16 The chances are that you belong to one of the groups Derek Dean has identified .
17 The closer to AD ( which lies on the stable manifold of the origin ) a trajectory starts , the closer to one of the points R or L it will return ; R is the point where the right-hand branch of the unstable manifold of the origin first strikes the top face of B , and L is the equivalent point for the left-hand branch .
18 Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent
19 Yet The red pencil is the chewed one is quite normal on both readings , which would not be expected if on one of the readings pencil referred only to the core .
20 I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out .
21 The name on one of the passports Graham had drawn from UNACO stores in New York .
22 For example , a question on one of the communications examination papers asks :
23 At one of the camps Miss Picon asked a woman at her concert why she had brought her baby , who never stopped crying .
24 No erm they are then authorised and issued with an authorisation card following the successful completion of the course to carry a firearm on police duties if required er , the authorisation is issued by either the Chief Constable or er his deputy and that would enable the officer if required to go an armoury at one of the police stations and produce his card and be issued with a weapon if necessary .
25 She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business .
26 Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem .
27 It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed .
28 Perhaps the duets were those sung by one of the giovani Dame and her sister , accompanied by the composer at the gravicembalo , when the future Emperor Rudolf II passed through Brescello in 1571 .
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