Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING his triumphant rookie win in his Indycar debut at Surfers Paradise in Australia , Nigel Mansell will now be the spearhead of a campaign to help his new formula displace Formula One as the world 's most popular motorsport . |
| 2 | If it was only one for the Liverpool ex you know , one extra for the Liverpool , you see , it 'd be the same this year . |
| 3 | As there are two separate applications — one for the King 's Cross project and one for the high-speed link — it is difficult to see how the two environmental assessments can be taken together . |
| 4 | One of a firm 's greatest resources is its people . |
| 5 | In a zoo , one of a keeper 's jobs is to keep the babirusa 's tusks trimmed . |
| 6 | In the present context , however , we need only note that one of a chief 's most important traditional roles is his judgment in cases of witchcraft accusations brought before him . |
| 7 | One of a University 's most pleasant tasks is to select men and women who have achieved outstanding distinction in their chosen fields , for the award of honorary degrees . |
| 8 | Normally one of a town 's functions is more important than the others . |
| 9 | One of a horse 's most important forms of communication is one we rarely consider . |
| 10 | Champagnes made with a high proportion of Pinot Meunier sometimes have an earthy tone of fruit and when the grapes have come from less favourable sites , there can be a distinctly sweet aroma which reminds one of a confectioner 's shop . |
| 11 | One of a director 's fiduciary duties of particular relevance in management buy-outs is that he must not put himself in a position where his duty to the company may conflict with his personal interest . |
| 12 | A misguided attempt to mediate by one of the archbishop 's personnel , one Count Arco , led to Mozart 's celebrated exit from Colloredo 's service with a box on the ear and a boot on the backside . |
| 13 | Simultaneously Taylor became one of the Archbishop 's chaplains . |
| 14 | MORE than 30 years of service to the Order of St John medical service will be rewarded for one of the Order 's most senior doctors in County Durham . |
| 15 | Alan Smith had joined the paper in 1962 from the local Liverpudlian press and had gained kudos/notoriety from being one of The Beatles ' early champions . |
| 16 | It was one of the temple 's functions to produce these effects and they are part and parcel of the Minoan religious experience ; the temple itself was in a very real sense an extreme expression of that experience . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you one of the landlady 's girls ? ’ asked Dolly . |
| 18 | Oldtimers will remember the famous panel from the US comic strip Pogo that had one of the cartoon 's forest creatures utter the immortal words , ‘ We have seen the enemy and he is us . ’ |
| 19 | In a recent case involving a driver of a heavy goods vehicle an oral promise was made by one of the driver 's managers that the driver , a Mr Rump , would not be required to work anywhere in the UK , as mentioned in his contract of employment , but only in the south of England because of special family ties . |
| 20 | Joseph Olshan 's fascinating third novel , The Waterline , charts the emotional journey which Billy and his parents , Susan and Michael , undertake to arrive at this peaceful coexistence with their past ; each narrates one of the novel 's three sections . |
| 21 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 22 | Kureishi is unrepentant about at least one of the novel 's structural crudities : ‘ I like writing about group sex , ’ he explains , ‘ because it is a good way of getting all the characters together . ’ |
| 23 | The three members who have been chosen this year are Ron Waldron and John Ryan , two former national coaches , and John Maclean , one of the union 's national representatives who is also chairman of Llanelli . |
| 24 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 25 | One of the Chevron 's strong points is that it is a good-looker , with a handsome profile and modern-looking cockpit. the futuristic wing doors make for easy access and lend to the aircraft 's attractive appearance . |
| 26 | Tallis 's Missa Salve Intemerata Virgo from a generation later , is a so-called ‘ parody mass ’ based on one of the composer 's own most extended motets . |
| 27 | Where I find him occasionally disappointing is in the dreamier world of the Gymnopédies and the more intriguing Sonneries de la Rose Croix ( one of the composer 's Rosicrucian works ) . |
| 28 | The Fantasia in F minor , written for mechanical organ but one of the composer 's most intensely dramatic utterances , comes off fairly well ( but not as well as with Frantz and Eschenbach , who are compelling in this great work ) , but I still prefer the weight and variety of organ tone here ; and if the Adagio of the C minor Fugue with its two-piano writing is a trifle ponderous , the D major Sonata for two pianos that follows is not all so . |
| 29 | As one of the composer 's biographers has observed , ‘ the German victory over France in 1870–71 was the grand occasion for the digging up of great heros of the French past . |
| 30 | On one of the Sphinx 's toes there is quite a passable poem in ancient Greek : |