Example sentences of "one of [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems that , regardless of the wider implications of the dispute ( it has been bracketed with refusals of voluntary aided status in its impact on religious and cultural autonomy ) , the issue was essentially one of parental choice rather than religion per se . |
| 2 | The view , on the contrary , is precisely one of Causal Realism rather than Causal Idealism . |
| 3 | The issue is not simply one of comparative disadvantage within or between relatively rich countries . |
| 4 | It would be a mistake to regard the condition of infancy as one of uniform incapacity throughout and for all purposes . |
| 5 | The relationship between general practitioners and district health authorities needs to be explicitly recognised as one of mutual dependence rather than competition . |
| 6 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 7 | It 's like Florence in Italy — one of those places where if you have money , it 's a wonderful place to be , and if you do n't , it 's f—ing terrible . |
| 8 | Do you er like are you one of those people like if you hear about a death |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't trust one of those bastards further than I could throw him . |
| 10 | But the public reaction seemed one of amused appreciation rather than of apprehension . |
| 11 | In summary , the use of the metaphor of drama has allowed us to construct an alternative model of visionary leadership , one of dynamic interaction rather than unidirectional flow , a process of craft and repetition rather than simple cognition , brought to bear in the communication of affect as well as effect . |
| 12 | For many , the movement is one of horizontal mobility rather than vertical . |
| 13 | He never penned another encyclical and his final decade remained one of conservative indecision rather than of reaction . |
| 14 | Expressed in the simplest terms , however , normal flight depends on the creation by a propeller-like action of the wings of a zone of low pressure in front of and above the insect and one of high pressure behind and below it , the consequent movement being a resultant of the thrust provided by the insect and forces due to gravity and air-resistance . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you pick one of these creatures up and place it a little distance away on the surface of the water , all its fellows will see is that it vanished , and reappeared elsewhere . |
| 16 | However , it may happen that particular variables selected for analysis turn out to be especially markers of one of these functions rather than another : one variable may be chiefly a close-tie network marker and another a marker of gender-differentiation . |
| 17 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
| 18 | So which one of these uses opposite and adjacent ? |
| 19 | If , for example , the Gnat 's Water Brewery , which operates three inns in a small country village , wishes to close and sell off one of these inns so as to improve the profitability of its remaining inns , it may insert a restrictive covenant into the conditions of sale of the inn in question , whereby the purchaser of the inn covenants not to use the premises as licensed premises . |