Example sentences of "[subord] one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where one of the insured persons has died abroad , the policy provides cover for funeral expenses or the cost of transporting the remains to the U.K. In such instances the wishes of the deceased 's family are of paramount importance and they must be consulted very closely . |
| 2 | This is an area of some controversy at the moment in psychology , where one of the holy grails is the attempt to provide empirical evidence for the intuitively reasonable idea that there can be a dissociation of behaviour from consciousness . |
| 3 | In addition , the effectiveness of certain other types of clause is limited by statute where one of the contracting parties deals as a consumer ; for instance , the Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 restricts the enforcement of an arbitration clause against a person who makes a contract as a consumer , unless certain conditions are fulfilled . |
| 4 | In the two general election held in April 1987 [ see pp. 35187-88 ] the UWP had won nine seats and the SLP eight , although one of the eight SLP members , Neville Cenac , then defected and joined the Compton government as Minister of Foreign Affairs . |
| 5 | Which is pretty much what happens , although one of the new jumpers does n't quite get it right and ends up doing an unscheduled , but spectacular stunt . |
| 6 | Although one of the earliest questions put to him in England concerned this category of ‘ the West ’ , in the subsequent fervour that accompanied the transformation of Derrida 's work into the method of deconstruction , this problem tended to slip out of view . |
| 7 | Tourism , although one of the biggest sources of income to the island , is not oversold . |
| 8 | Although one of the main claims to fame of student rugby is its unpredictability , A south African win against France in the final seems to be eminently possible . |
| 9 | While it seems that there may often be only one candidate , especially for longer words , there will be more than one on a significant number of occasions . |
| 10 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 11 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
| 12 | Save as provided in the said regulation 36 and without derogation from the provisions of the last preceding paragraph of this regulation , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade licence , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence for a purpose other than a business purpose and other than one of the following purposes : |
| 13 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 14 | Many experiments have used purpose-built probes rather than one of the standard techniques . |
| 15 | Mixed etiology when more than one of the above factors occur in a family . |
| 16 | Suppose some lexical unit X stands in a lexical relation R to another lexical unit Y. ( R must be some relation other than one of the primary congruence relations . ) |
| 17 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 18 | It is no easy matter to define these differences , but the clients who often use more than one of the major firms notice significant variations . |
| 19 | I reckon , however , that a barbel is a specimen when it weighs more than 7lb , though a 7lb barbel from the Severn is obviously a more rewarding catch than one of the same weight from the Hampshire Avon or Dorset Stour where the average weight is higher . |
| 20 | Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys ? |
| 21 | It would have been possible to have considered the Orpheus mosaics and a group of saltire mosaics , at the level of substantial affinity : in both instances there are similarities of content and decoration , where these similarities are not strong enough to suggest the presence of even a single craftsman who worked on more than one of the comparable mosaics . |
| 22 | But this approach seems to me to contain difficulties of its own , not the least being that each object of knowledge is knowable in more than one of the different ways . |
| 23 | It was obvious the lawyer thought of the scheme as being no more than one of the old cow 's plaguy whims . |
| 24 | Were the Bowes Museum located in London rather than one of the greener parts of County Durham in the north of Britain it would surely rank alongside the Wallace Collection in prestige and public affection . |
| 25 | Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts . |
| 26 | It was critical of the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor , and pointed out that there was nothing in the conditions which debarred the same competitor from receiving prizes in more than one of the three parts of the competition . |
| 27 | Who better than one of the foremost earls of Scotland , at the very gateway to his own territories of the Merse and Lothian ? ’ |
| 28 | It increases from more than one in every 2,000 births where the mother is aged 20 years or less to one in 60 where the mother is over 45 years old . |
| 29 | However , the use of a tranquilliser is a last resort , and is most unlikely to be necessary for more than one in a hundred horses . |
| 30 | Less than one in a thousand members of the population belongs to this class . |