Example sentences of "[art] [noun] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the trial one of the defendants claimed to have acted as an agent for the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 , and allegations were made that officials had encouraged dissimulation in order to maintain intelligence contacts and also to promote British exports . |
| 2 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 3 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 4 | Thus the proposed lignite mining in the north , as Baker ( 1989 ) has pointed out , is in line with the current Thatcherite privatization policy , while in the south one of the sons of the current Taoiseach is a managing director of one of the mining and prospecting companies . |
| 5 | We woke abnormally late at 8.00 am and sat in the garden of the house for an hour drinking coffee and eating the bread one of the Corporals had bought in the village that morning . |
| 6 | After the meeting one of the leaders stopped Karen outside in the corridor . |
| 7 | And one of the say one of the proposals was that there should be this er line from , and through this town , and over to join the er Nottingham , Lincoln line er at . |
| 8 | On the shore one of the men was tying a rope to another tree . |
| 9 | Off towards the river one of the horses nickered loudly . |
| 10 | At the door one of the boys said , ‘ Hurry up , mate . |
| 11 | A witness reports that after the shots one of the assassins shouted across , ‘ Corporal , one of them is still alive ’ . |
| 12 | Five is to the north of Killinghall and you 'll see from the table attached , table two that er prior to the opening of the phase one of the bypasses , it was opened in two phases between the A sixty one and the six six one in the southern half was opened first . |
| 13 | ‘ At the climax of the film one of the gangsters is about to shoot a young girl member of the community in the presence of the community 's elder . |
| 14 | On the way one of the waiters told me Chuck was asleep , and the doctor had been sent for . |
| 15 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 16 | When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day . |
| 17 | On his way back from the cells one of the bearers had intercepted him . |
| 18 | In every instance one of the birds was sitting on the eggs and the other perched on a neighbouring bough , both invariably asleep . |
| 19 | Under cross-examination from Alan Gore , a barrister representing one of the dead drivers , he said that as a result one of the options had been amended . |
| 20 | accommodation at Manda 's , they had a chap go in there a rape one of the girls in there did n't they ? |
| 21 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 22 | After a while one of the Men began climbing the tree . |
| 23 | As he stood there , staring across the room at the invisible Bella , his bearing both haughty and disdainful , he looked every inch one of the Lords of the Earth , and Cassie supposed that in his way and in his time , he was . |
| 24 | And once a week one of the waiters takes guests on a free guided walk . |
| 25 | I 've a feeling one of the lads from Portsmouth or Sunderland could end up a national hero . |
| 26 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 27 | Speed , consistency , and the ability to answer questions as they arise are the three great benefits of such a system One of the difficulties which personnel managers encounter whenever they get involved in computerisation is that there are apparently so many options available . |
| 28 | The persistence and weight of this criticism was no doubt one of the pressures that led the Auditing Practices Board to place ‘ going concern ’ high on its list of priorities , and in May 1992 an exposure draft proposing new auditing standards in this area was issued . |
| 29 | It is only right to point out that there is nothing particularly ‘ wrong ’ in using a sans serif face for the text and a serif one for the headings , just that it needs a bit more care . |
| 30 | I 'm going to give you , as a table one of the features of the plan , I 'm going to ask you as a group , but only one of you needs to write it , to write every single thing you can think of relating to that set feature . |