Example sentences of "one of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALTHOUGH the circumstances have been so sad , the staff of the magazine have been reminded recently how much the rugby community will rally around when one of its members suffers a loss . |
| 2 | The unofficial strike of oil-rig workers in 1990 had as one of its major aims an improvement in safety . |
| 3 | scientists found that the linear chain is more stable if it undergoes a Peierls ( pronounced piles ) distortion ; each electron interacts with only one of its neighbours to form a structure of alternating short ( double ) and long ( single ) carbon-carbon bonds . |
| 4 | And the British Government , churchgoers like Postlethwaite , would hardly be likely to take kindly to one of its servants invading a church . |
| 5 | One of its shafts provides a bass drone and the other the melody . |
| 6 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 7 | It is also one of their plans to put an end to the " danger of communism " through combating these social blights . |
| 8 | I think my first encounter with Carvin amplifiers was around 1983 , when one of their adverts featured a very young and fresh-faced Steve Vai , announcing the fact that he was using Carvin X100B amps in Frank Zappa 's band and was , basically , chuffed to bits with them . |
| 9 | Full time finished with the score at 1–1 and sudden death extra time began with Woodmill seemingly well in control until one of their players conceded a foul off the ball . |
| 10 | One of their guests gave a sarcastic laugh . |
| 11 | For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall . |
| 12 | It might even be Mr Ozal himself ( he has not ruled out the idea of standing ) , but one of his associates seems a likelier choice . |
| 13 | He also had drains that were in a terrible state and therefore wanted one of his sons to become a plumber . |
| 14 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 15 | She is a lady of high birth who has lost her father and now sees one of his friends meet a similar terrible death . ’ |
| 16 | Many of these machines were indistinguishable in appearance from human beings , but not all — one of his stories described a race of intelligent motor-cars which , once parked for the night , would zoom away to sex orgies . |
| 17 | One of his members had a dealers license and drove to cities like Houston to buy and sell at gun fairs . |
| 18 | One of his arms moved a little and blood ran out of the side of his head onto the wet tarmac . |
| 19 | One of his interrogators added a gloss to the story almost forty years later . |
| 20 | One of his paintings shows a rough wooden gallery on a house thought to be Willy Hill . |
| 21 | ‘ If one of his mates got a whack and got hurt he 'd go and sort it out for them . |
| 22 | Some offences , cruelty to children or animals , violent crime against the vulnerable old , could still produce a flare of the spectacular Massingham temper which had resulted in more than one of his forebears facing a duel or a court martial . |
| 23 | The England manager is a slave to slip catching practice , difficult though it is to recall the last time one of his bowlers located an outside edge . |
| 24 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 25 | He was grabbed by one of the enemy as he looked out to see what was happening , and then one of his men threw a grenade . |
| 26 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 27 | I remember when one of my girls had an abortion , I was like a maniac for days after . |
| 28 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 29 | And then we were at Frinton , masses of us , and we always used to go to Frinton in the summer because one of my uncles had a house there and we knew the people who erm dad used to play golf and mother used to knit on the beach , you know . |
| 30 | When one of my teenagers spent a month huddled in the park with a crowd of deadpan Gothic posers , I radiated white-hot hostility . |