Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw ; a conspicuous spine-like one on the oral plate and a smaller scale-like one on the adoral plate which may be missing in some specimens ( see Madsen , 1970 : 179–181 for a discussion of this character ) . |
| 2 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 3 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 4 | In Dusun , for example , two different sequence particles are used in the verb phrases — one in the first clause an a different one in the second clause . |
| 5 | An honest vote for Labour — or an evasive one for the Liberal Democrats , which will also help Mr Kinnock to Downing Street — signals a return to Britain 's long , tragic , doomed pursuit of a soft option . |
| 6 | er mine 's the top one it says erm well I 'll , I 'll reme I 'll rem I 'll , yeah , well it just says on it and it 's the , it 's the top one on the left hand side as you 're facing them |
| 7 | They sat in thick wickerwork chairs on an open balcony a top one of the older hotels , close to the floodlit shaft of the Washington Monument . |
| 8 | The secret is to hit the edge of the top one with the steel-tipped back edge of your heels and travel all the way down just skimming each stair the same way . |
| 9 | Between the peace settlement of 1814 – 15 and the death of the old monarchical and aristocratic Europe after 1914 there was some growth in the size and a more marked one in the geographical scope of diplomatic services ; but this was slow and largely confined to the major states . |
| 10 | Moving across the Adriatic , you comment that ‘ it has been a bad week for Bosnia 's Muslims and a shaming one for the outside world . ’ |
| 11 | Official starter Ivor Robson seldom makes mistakes but had to admit to an enforced one in the first match when instructed to let Ian Woosnam take the honour with partner Nick Faldo , playing against Curtis Strange in the opening Foursomes . |
| 12 | Purists still demand the long trudge with the Atco cylinder-mower , the old one with the heavy roller and the polished-brass gas tank . |
| 13 | They chose the latter course but they sent to the buyer separate shipping documents in respect of two different lots in the one ship . |
| 14 | Expect to see folk such as Chris Evans ( the funny ginger one on The Big Breakfast ) and Banderas on stage at The Powerhaus in north London . |
| 15 | It 's the ginger one in the tartan longjohns and his mate with the coconut matting on his chest . |
| 16 | The centre light fitting , designed by Lutyens , is made of mother of pearl and ivory and matches a similar one in the private bathroom . |
| 17 | Yet if Leonard 's fleet feet were still part of his youthfulness , there were signs of bodily frailty ; he bore the only real wounds of the contest , a cut to the lip sustained early on and a more serious one over the left eye in the 11th round . |
| 18 | In the darkness , arms around each other , they came to a decision , and though the decision was a relief for Chrissie in terms of her two kids , it was a sad one for the two adults . |
| 19 | Broad classifications of this sort are rarely satisfactory , but the trend away from social studies in favour of science ( with arts remaining steady ) was a consistent one in the intervening years , despite violent fluctuations in demand for individual subjects within all three categories . |
| 20 | Yeah , I 'm putting the extra one in the appropriate place for the role play that 's all . |
| 21 | If you decide to use an insecticide , choose the most appropriate one for the affected plant and the pest concerned to avoid injuring beneficial insects . |
| 22 | The debate on the definition of power is a long-running one in the social sciences , and we shall not go into it in detail here . |
| 23 | The trip to Gdynia , Poland to me was a remarkable one by the Eighth Airforce because of the distance involved and the location of the target that was hit in the daytime . |
| 24 | To his left one of the massive bronze lions that guarded the square had become a meeting place for some teenagers grouped around a ghetto blaster . |
| 25 | The new Tory ministry under Harley may have been successful in changing the previous Whig majority in Parliament into a Tory one in the General Election of 1710 ; but the furore unleashed by the Sacheverell affair meant that a Parliament dominated by High Tories was returned , which was much more extreme than a moderate like Harley would have wished . |
| 26 | The opposite one to the right angle . |
| 27 | For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been . |
| 28 | A fuller understanding of the international economic order and modern migratory pressures also requires an analysis , inevitably a very brief one in the present context , of the British impact on the Indian states that came to form one of the centrepieces of the British Empire and the so-called ‘ jewel in the crown ’ . |
| 29 | Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation . |
| 30 | In 1991 , British government finances again moved into deficit and the projections are that the deficit will grow but notwithstanding this the market in UK government bonds will remain , by international standards , a medium-sized one for the foreseeable future . |