Example sentences of "[subord] one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
7 | 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 : |
8 | Many experiments have used purpose-built probes rather than one of the standard techniques . |
9 | Mixed etiology when more than one of the above factors occur in a family . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Then why did he put her up at Ascot rather than one of the top jockeys ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Either wait until one of the other users logs off or inform the LIFESPAN Manager to increase the allowable number of interactive users . |
16 | Either wait until one of the other users logs off or inform the LIFESPAN Manager to increase the allowable number of interactive users . |
17 | The first is that , as a result of continuous disagreement , time passes until one of the existing procedures is commonly accepted ( simply by usage ) and becomes the standard by default . |
18 | If one of the non-deviant firms fails to carry out its role in punishing the cheat by producing its punishment output , it in turn is treated as having reneged and the firms adopt the punishment path for this firm . |
19 | Well , I think the first starting point is asking men to be self-aware and if one of the untoward consequences of that self-awareness is self-consciousness , then we 'll just have to live with that . |
20 | This is not to say , though , that the interests of the local population were entirely ignored ; for , if one of the primary purposes of fortifications was to guard the necessary physical organs of tax recording and collection and the necessary officials , then a secondary purpose may possibly be glimpsed in the simultaneous protection of some of the economic base from which many of the tax payments were derived ; hence the inclusion of markets , shops , workshops and houses . |
21 | If one of the necessary chores of an archaeologist is to reconstruct subsistence and technology , it is one of his chief privileges to explore the values of the civilizations coming within his purview and not least the symbols which have served to define status and acknowledge outstanding achievement . |
22 | The runners string out in a line across the road as it is unsafe to have them five or six deep ; if one of the front runners fell , sacks of coal and people could end up in a nasty heap . |
23 | To prevent unauthorised access to module details , LIFESPAN will only return this information if one of the following conditions are satisfied : |
24 | Then , on February 15th , the attorney-general , Mr Nicholas Lyell , conveniently popped up to say , quite contradictorily , that if one of the offending amendments were carried ‘ it would have no effect on our ability to ratify the treaty ’ . |
25 | When they phoned me back I told them I was ill , made profuse apologies and asked if one of the other celebrities could open the helpline . |
26 | If one of the possible extensions scored well , i.e. the top-down prediction appeared to be correct , then the island would be extended further , otherwise the seed would be abandoned for the next best seed word generated bottom-up over that area . |
27 | Nowadays they only get sales like that if one of the Philharmonic Orchestras is in residence round the corner at the Barbican . |
28 | The APU power was used for engine starting and to provide emergency power if one of the main generators went off line . |
29 | For if one of the main results of this election is that the Labour Party ditches Mr Kinnock as leader in favour of Mr Smith , it could well be a case of reculer pour mieux sauter — a kind of Pyrrhic defeat . |
30 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |