Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm one of the points that has n't been mentioned in terms of the benefits discussed earlier is that the forecasts are that n because of the horrendous accident record of the A sixty one , that transfer of thirty percent of the traffic onto a high standard , modern and much safer road , will result in a reduction in between seven hundred and a thousand people er being injured on the A sixty one during the thirty year er lifespan of the western relief road . |
| 2 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 3 | One of No 4 Region 's officers , Captain James Knowles , supported by Warrant Officer Ronald Fowles , spends much of his time advising , instructing and inspecting the catering operations of TA units the length and breadth of northern England . |
| 4 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 5 | Telford , though not sacked , disappeared from the project and Benjamin Bevan , one of the Grand Junction 's own engineers , at first nominally in tandem with Telford , became responsible for the later development . |
| 6 | On 4 November , in one of the twentieth century 's most ideologically self-sacrificial gestures , members of the CNT swallowed their hostility towards the exercise of authority and joined the Republican government . |
| 7 | Is n't it , perhaps , a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the nineteenth century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the twentieth century 's most notorious fictional characters ? |
| 8 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 9 | On the bedside table was a Gideon Bible , and beside it an entry form which , if and when completed and dispatched , would entitle the fortunate applicant to inclusion in a free draw for a ticket to one of the following summer 's golfing championships . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , regional policy could hardly be described as one of the current Government 's priorities . |
| 11 | Moreover , director Paul Haines said that one of the London-based group 's tactics for boosting profits was to look for bargains among the competition — the stake in Total was bought at a very low price , he says — then buy a small stake , and cash it in . |
| 12 | One of the young man 's eyes had been gouged out and he had been castrated . |
| 13 | When Minton learnt that one of the young man 's interests had not yet been fulfilled , he arranged matters so that after one Hampstead Arts Ball Hunt lost his virginity . |
| 14 | City twice came from behind to take a point against one of the second division 's form teams . |
| 15 | Another figure from the arts was Aytmatov , a Kirghiz and one of the Soviet Union 's most renowned living novelists . |
| 16 | The island was one of the Soviet Union 's main nuclear testing sites during the cold war . |
| 17 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 18 | One of the southern authority 's main potable supply rivers , for example , consists in dry weather of more than 50 per cent effluent ; and another river flowing through a major city in the northern authority is over 90 per cent effluent . |
| 19 | He says he 's one of the front bench 's two main performers . |
| 20 | The issue of Jerusalem was one of the Middle East 's most intractable problems , underscoring the seemingly irreconcilable differences between Jews and Arabs . |
| 21 | Breakdown must be one of the best reader 's games we 've ever had . |
| 22 | One of the Regional Council 's reasons for refusal of planning permission is that the proposed development falls outside the areas identified for office use in the Lothian Region Structure Plan 1985 and can not be justified on prime land in the Green Belt as there is no essential overriding need , given the supply of office floorspace currently available , under construction or with outstanding planning permission , which is more than sufficient to satisfy development needs within the Structure Plan period to 1996 and beyond . |
| 23 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 24 | The King 's company apparently had lost the original licensed manuscript but the Master of the Revels was prepared to accept the word of the company manager John Heminge ( one of the First Folio 's editors ) that ‘ there was nothing profane added or reformed ’ . |
| 25 | But then Mr. Stott added patronisingly : ‘ But as one of the Labour Party 's Shadow Northern Ireland Team , I would like to put the opposite view . ’ |
| 26 | That is only if stage one of the Labour party 's proposals are implemented ; it does not take into account the effect of stage two . |
| 27 | One of the new-look business 's greatest successes proved to be its Food Courts , where up to five takeaway counters open on to a central , supervised seating area . |
| 28 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 29 | While the deal was being negotiated in 1989 one of the Guglielmi family 's daughters was kidnapped and ransomed for $4 million . |
| 30 | And the more crowded , the more satisfied the police , as that means they are efficiently carrying out the law against prostitution — one of the present government 's most notable social " contributions " . |