Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of them requires a complete day out to go and visit them and it 's very difficult to find a complete day because there are so many other things , so many other demands on your time . |
| 2 | One of them activates a secret latch , book shelves swing aside to reveal a flight of descending stone steps . |
| 3 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 4 | These sugar units are ‘ sticky ’ ; when one of them meets a matching sugar chain sticking out from the membrane of an adjacent cell , the two recognize each other and become attached . |
| 5 | One of them employs a psychological trick . |
| 6 | None of them commands a regular place in the team . |
| 7 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 8 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 9 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 10 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 11 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 12 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 13 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 14 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 15 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 16 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 17 | Anyway , Alison , that vicar of yours sounds a real attention seeker . |
| 18 | Even if only one of you has a paid job , the death of the other would almost certainly deal a severe financial blow to the household . |
| 19 | Also a friend of mine has a two year old brother who tries to have sex with his teddy bear . |
| 20 | A number of further points should be noted : ( 1 ) If the financial adviser is acting for a newly-formed bidder ( eg an " off-the-shelf " company ) , the standard of care required of it has a special dimension . |
| 21 | It is widely acknowledged that about one in ten of us has a marked tendency to homosexuality and perhaps half this group have homosexual experience as adults ( homosexual feeling and experiment are even more common in adolescence ) . |
| 22 | If either of us has a psychological disorder , distortion of our perceptions of each other is increased . |
| 23 | About the earliest years , when we are most impressionable , none of us has a conscious memory . |