Example sentences of "one [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next up was a hard-looking fellow I remembered as one of the surviving Africa veterans , a prodigal who 'd been seduced by Martinho but had redeemed himself by daring and sacrifice under Osvaldo — I was surprised he was still alive . |
| 2 | But the clearest evidence that Gloucester 's links with the Clifford connection preceded his possession of Skipton is his grant of a fee to one of the surviving Clifford brothers , Robert , in 1471 . |
| 3 | But the clearest evidence that Gloucester 's links with the Clifford connection preceded his possession of Skipton is his grant of a fee to one of the surviving Clifford brothers , Robert , in 1471 . |
| 4 | So he was one of the eighty-seven I Vologsky congratulated himself as he streaked back across the border , his mission completed . |
| 5 | Louise had her clothes made for her : not by one of the grand West End couturiers such as Hartnell or Lachasse , whose prices were far beyond her , but by Paul de Levantiére , a Belgian who , because his salon was in unfashionable Chelsea , charged much less . |
| 6 | ‘ Choose one of the six London bridges , ’ he said , ‘ and throw your money over it . |
| 7 | ‘ Orkney Angora ’ , the company which produces these essential thermal accessories , is a small family-run croft business based on one of the northernmost Orkney Isles . |
| 8 | For details and reservations contact any one of the following NIR Travel Centres : |
| 9 | It was one of the London-based Thompson chain and was the only evening newspaper . |
| 10 | Civil servants in what was normally one of the sleepier Whitehall departments had enjoyed the intoxicating experience of mobilizing the empire for global conflict . |
| 11 | BELOW : An advertisement from 1930 illustrating the Stonehouse Paper and Bag Mills , housed in one of the lower Frome Valley 's former cloth mills . |
| 12 | The man he knew only as Hamid was one of the two-man London cell . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |
| 14 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 15 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 16 | All you need to do is choose one of the great Nicam TV or Video recorders we have on offer . |
| 17 | She moved along the rows in delight : a Bugatti , a Jensen , a Bristol , one of the great Mulliner Bentleys , the legendary Porsche 356 , a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost , with running-boards . |
| 18 | The renaissance of the raisin is one of the great US marketing success stories . |
| 19 | She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . |
| 20 | A new ghazal ( love lyric ) by one of the great Delhi poets was considered the most desirable gift that any civilized host could wish for . |
| 21 | As a centre-forward , tall and crafty , he formed one of the great Anfield partnerships with Kevin Keegan . |
| 22 | The first office he is known to have held ( in 1256 ) was the purely local one of coroner and in 1258 he was one of the four Shropshire knights appointed to investigate grievances in the same county under the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 23 | Alec 's father said that Alec was indeed one of the four A. Davidsons in the telephone directory — the Rev. A. W. Davidson . |
| 24 | The car was No. 25 , one of the small Milnes cars and in those days a ‘ Lorry ’ was a flat truck drawn by horses . |
| 25 | Hussein Kulmie Afrah , Planning Minister in the Cabinet dismissed in January and one of the five SRSP politburo members , succeeded Said Mohammed Ibrahim Ahmed as chairman of the People 's Assembly ( parliament ) . |
| 26 | Warren Spring is one of the five DTI laboratories . |
| 27 | The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals were to be merged , and one of the five Gurkha battalions would be cut . |
| 28 | FIG. 3 a , Stereo drawing of one of the five CsA-CypA complexes . |
| 29 | One of the Baptist J. H. Shakespeare 's sons became private secretary to Lloyd George and an MP . |
| 30 | 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 . |