Example sentences of "one of the [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | In accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee of The House of Commons ‘ on Foreign Office reconstruction' ’ , made in their Report , dated 13th July last , ‘ ‘ that a preference should be given to the successful competitors in the erection of the New Foreign Office , it is the intention of the Government to employ as the architect of the proposed building , in the event of the necessary funds being voted by Parliament in the ensuing Session , Mr. George Gilbert Scott , one of the successful competitors ' ’ . |
2 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
3 | The bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew , the sign that all trading should cease , as four urchins pulled a huge yule log up to the door of one of the great merchants ' houses . |
4 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
5 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
6 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
7 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
8 | HARD-PRESSED inner city comprehensive schools are likely to lose thousands of pounds a year under government plans to devolve financial management to heads , one of the largest teachers ' unions warns today . |
9 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
10 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
11 | Of the remaining three practices , one contributed for all but one of the 12 months ' data collection period , one supplied data for 10 out of 12 months , and one supplied data for eight months only . |
12 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
13 | One of the numerous tradesmen 's debating clubs of market-town life , the White Hart Evening Club , provided the first forum for what became an increasingly devastating critique of the corruption of English government , and Paine was the most frequent recipient of the Headstrong Book , given to the most obstinate debater at each meeting . |
14 | The film was based on a saucy Twenties stage comedy by Robert Munro , better known as the late comedian Sonnie Hale , and it was not one of the Boulting Brothers ' best , despite the presence of some great British character actors . |
15 | Fifty-two people were killed when shells slammed into a makeshift hospital in the enclave , one of the United Nations 's six ‘ safe areas ’ for Bosnia 's Slavic Muslims . |