Example sentences of "[be] [verb] of one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observations have been made of one turbulent spot appearing in the boundary layer a little way downstream of an older one , whose presence has caused sufficient disturbance . |
| 2 | Water molecules are made of one hydrogen and two oxygen atoms and , apart from distilled water , countless traces of ions and salts . |
| 3 | A case study will be undertaken of one primary and one secondary school in the same LEA , focusing mainly on the work of the headteacher , senior staff and other teachers in planning , preparing for and introducing the changes . |
| 4 | Whenever anybody reads a letter on stage , I 'm reminded of one of those Radio 4 features where Martin Jarvis corresponds with Anna Massey , or vice-versa . |
| 5 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 6 | Before leaving section I , mention should be made of one defence which is not available . |
| 7 | Children used to be told of one triumph after another . |
| 8 | Discourse may be composed of one or more well-formed grammatical sentences and indeed it often is — but it does not have to be . |
| 9 | Belbin concluded that the ideal team would be composed of one Chairman ( or one Shaper ) , one Innovator , one Monitor Evaluator , and one or more Company Workers , Team Workers , Resource Investigators or Completers . |
| 10 | Gley 's chambers were built of one of the new metals created through the exigencies of war . |
| 11 | Thus the RAF and the nation were deprived of one of its most gallant battle leaders , amongst the bravest of the brave — I knew them all , I walked in their shadows . |
| 12 | When photos were published of one of the workers who fought the blaze , he was described half jokingly as ‘ Atomic Stan ’ , and ‘ the most radioactive man in Britain ’ . |
| 13 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 14 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 15 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 16 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 17 | For example , an image is presented of one child threatening another . |
| 18 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 19 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 20 | With the bike into the corner and turned , the rider is thinking of one thing only from now on — getting on to the throttle as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Since in the example the memory bank is composed of one bit-plane , the resulting image shown on the TV monitor can have one of only two values at each pixel point : the value 0 ( meaning ‘ black ’ ) and the value 1 ( meaning ‘ white ’ ) . |
| 22 | When we lose the ability to cry , our body is deprived of one of the great protectors against stress . |
| 23 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 24 | Charlie Sheen , who will play a dim-witted muscleman in the film , Hot Shots 2 , said : ‘ I 'd be flattered if a spoof was made of one of my movies . ’ |
| 25 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
| 26 | Each man was accused of one or more serious crimes . |
| 27 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 28 | These two components were studied by an interview survey ; the was composed of one third unemployed and two thirds employed members of the two localities . |
| 29 | The CDC was composed of one military officer , two former MPs and seven academics , the remainder being civil servants , lawyers and members of the NLA . |