Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of four Magnox stations which have suffered problems with the pressure vessels . |
| 2 | The 21-year-old Scottish Under-21 international , who was linked with Rangers during the summer , is one of 10 Forest players whose current contracts run out at the end of the season . |
| 3 | He is one of 3,000 latino workers who have moved into Aspen 's Roaring Fork Valley , replacing anglo ‘ ski bums ’ as caretakers of the rich . |
| 4 | Sailor Malan was one of many South Africans who served with great distinction in either the RFC or the RAF — including such names as Andrew Proctor VC , ‘ Boetie ’ Venter and S M Kinkead from World War I and ‘ Pat ’ Pattle , John Nettleton VC and Edwin Swaley VC from World War II . |
| 5 | She was one of two Stewart monarchs who had this experience , the other being James I ( 1406–37 ) , who was an English prisoner for the first eighteen years of his reign . |
| 6 | The review was undertaken by one of two research fellows who attempted to be as objective as possible . |
| 7 | All week the phoney war has raged as the populations of San Francisco and Oakland have , under licence of sport , declared their allegiance to one of two baseball teams who tonight march out on to a field to contest the title of world champions . |
| 8 | Jeff is one of several NorthEast whistlers who are currently in the Conference Dave Oliver , Terry Heilbron , Jim Betts and Roy Pearson are also striving to progress . |
| 9 | He is one of several Newcastle players who have been told by manager Kevin Keegan they can go . |
| 10 | He was one of three England players who complained to the umpires about being pelted by objects . |
| 11 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
| 12 | Lansing was one of three women producers who bid for the rights . |
| 13 | The family clung on , and Olive 's father Llewellyn , was one of three Saunderson brothers who cut a dash in nineteenth-century Dublin society as officers in the Eleventh Hussars . |
| 14 | She became one of those women reporters whose listening ear and less judgemental approach to people in trouble helped to make the distillation of news the more respected practice it is today . |
| 15 | It 's like one of those cube patterns which pops inside out , from convex to concave , in front of your eyes . |
| 16 | Like a character in one of those horror movies he once intoned : ‘ Peace does not come from weakness . |
| 17 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 18 | one of those size people you 'll turn your head |
| 19 | for one of those pillow cases I wo n't pay that |
| 20 | ‘ Hello , you 're one of those Brownie girls who use my barn , are n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | It is , it 's gon na be one of those pot things you pick them out of . |
| 22 | Max Schmeling , who became the darling of the Nazi Party by being the first man to defeat Joe Louis , was feted in one of those boxing nostalgias which try , on the side , to thumb the nose at the American Medical Association and other such clinical societies concerned about brain damage . |
| 23 | Max Schmeling , who became the darling of the Nazi Party by being the first man to defeat Joe Louis , was feted in one of those boxing nostalgias which try , on the side , to thumb the nose at the American Medical Association and other such clinical societies concerned about brain damage . |
| 24 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 25 | Roy Harper is one of those cult figures who never seem to lose popularity — and his eccentric and entertaining stage presence explains why . |
| 26 | Bedell goes on to say that when a man embarks on one of those humiliation rituals which men behind desks have been perfecting for generations , she wishes she had the guts to introduce a bit of power play and weep gently but composedly . |
| 27 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 28 | One of those dinner parties which she loved and mocked almost equally , where people envy each other their success while feeling faintly guilty about their own . |
| 29 | it reminded me of one of those plastic haircuts you used to get as a kid for the legoland men . |
| 30 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |