Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tayloes , or Belvedere Mill , in Chalford stands on one of the oldest confirmed mill sites in the Chalford Valley and is one of the most picturesque . |
| 2 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 3 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 4 | Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . |
| 5 | They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses . |
| 6 | GOLDIE Hawn breaks into one of her famous giggles . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Northern Ireland suffers from one of the worst rates of coronary heart disease . |
| 8 | When Dr Moses appears in one of George 's hallucinations as Santa Claus , he asks George what he wants for Christmas . |
| 9 | You get seven 16-bit ISA slots plus one 8-bit slot with the Sigma . |
| 10 | Parque de la Paz lies in one of the prettiest parts of Las Americas yet is only a short walk from loads of bars and discos . |
| 11 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : All aboard the friendship express Christopher Zinn travels through one of the world 's most remote regions , but finds he is never alone |
| 12 | The absence from the novel of the verb ‘ to be ’ corresponds to this differential definition of the self that is no one thing but can say anything , and the ‘ loss of identity through language ’ , which Brooke-Rose regards as one of the most important themes of the novel ( 1989e:84 ) , is evident in the character 's consciousness of living ‘ between ideas ’ ( 19/413 ) . |
| 13 | The agency could be in business for less money than NATO spends in one hour , say its backers . |
| 14 | ‘ Jimmy Montgomery comes in one day a week to coach the goalkeepers , and he raves about young Adrian Swan . |
| 15 | The brandy market in Germany accounts for one quarter of spirits sales in that country . |
| 16 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 17 | Doctor and pathologist Professor Pietro Croce says in one of his articles : ‘ One only needs to find the appropriate animal species to obtain the desired result . |
| 18 | RAF Fighter Command 19-36-1968 ( PSL , 253pp , illus , hbk , £18.99 ) by Norman Franks puts into one packed volume the 32 years of the Royal Air Force 's most famous Command . |
| 19 | In the last of our summer gardens series , Gargy Patel reports on one of the most historic gardens in the world . |
| 20 | The choir of New College Oxford prepares for one of it 's most important performances . |
| 21 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 22 | HSDU operates from one of these Bantustans , called Gazankulu , the Sotho and Shangaan-speaking people . |
| 23 | Manchester manages with one constable for every 524 inhabitants , in Liverpool a constable has only 467 to look after . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been told that Prince Charles sleeps in one room and his lady in another , ’ said a Korean worker at the hotel . |
| 25 | We saunter over , and Rufus squats by one of the two parcels and grins coldly , about six inches from his face . |
| 26 | A series of studies of such businessmen have been conducted by Nigerian scholars , and these are particularly significant given the fact that Nigeria accounts for one third of ‘ value added ’ in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole ( excluding South Africa ) . |
| 27 | I hope also to say something useful about the structure of primate brains as well as the mechanisms of linguistic evolution , both issues that Searle sets to one side as irrelevant to the conceptual question he is pressing . |
| 28 | ‘ I still find it incredible that I do this at all , ’ Fruitbat admits at one point . |
| 29 | It no longer has interests in madeira wine , but the name Leacock continues as one of the most distinguished brand names within the Madeira Wine Company Lda . |
| 30 | Thus in the notation FcdEdm , it is possible to observe that the notation Fcd comes from one facet and Edm from a second . |