Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So we start off by saying it 's based on propane there 's an O H group so it 's a propanol the O H is on carbon number one of that chain so it is a propane one O L.
2 Yeats in a letter specifically invoked the name of Wilfred Scawen Blunt on one of many occasions when he girded in rage against the ‘ unnatural labour ’ that verse writing had become for him , with the disappearance of the less egalitarian society that Gregory and Blunt stood for .
3 France and Spain , okay , if you only got one of those countries right we could n't give you the point , it has to be both , question eighteen , in which book would you find the character Long John Silver ?
4 I ask him every day to get me a newspaper , but it 's one of those things where he sticks his heels in .
5 As it happens , this is one of those cases where you can use the classic problem-solving approach more or less as it stands .
6 It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history .
7 The way he explained it to Boy , it was one of those moments of giving up , one of those moments when you throw away your still half-full packet of cigarettes as you walk home in the drizzle and you say out loud , well that is it , that is the last time .
8 Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away !
9 so it , it is a sort of it 's a kind of sort of liveish topic it 's sort of in one of those stages where it 's not actually happening yet because a
10 One of those times when you wish that varieties of public screaming were a permitted social outlet without the perpetrator risking , at best , hospitalization and , at worst , incarceration .
11 ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . )
12 ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . )
13 Do n't expect everything to be crystal clear , or cut and dried for Monday 's one of those times when you have to take the lead and not wait for folk to spell things out in words of one syllable .
14 This might be one of those times when it was far better to say nothing !
15 . do n't this is one of those places where you have
16 And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks .
17 James , stop hit , hey , stop it , now , oh , are we gon na have one of those days where you go around beating up your brother and sister ?
18 It was one of those days where she stood staring at corridors of soup cans , dithering between chicken korma and coconut or sweetcorn and satay .
19 ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain .
20 After she had roared off , it was one of those days when I had the house to myself .
21 I was sitting under Marcus 's chair in the garden on one of those days when he stays at home when I heard this noise from next door .
22 It was just one of those situations where you find just the sound you 're looking for at that particular time .
23 The second item is the loss of grant for an archaeology assistant three thousand eight hundred pounds , this is one of these things where we 've had English Heritage at our grant and has tapered to fade out .
24 one of these things where they
25 And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks .
26 He 's one of these blokes where he comes number 1 , 2 and 3 , and anyone else comes nowhere . ’
27 I personally found them absolutely useless , and I always through mine away , er , right away , but you know , that 's , that 's one of these areas where you have personal choice .
28 So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees .
29 It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head .
30 and er if Paul has had a phone call from one of these woman then he 's been off like a shot !
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