Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The denial of autonomy — in the form of imprisonment — is also one of the principle weapons used in the formal penal apparatus to attempt to control crime . |
| 32 | One of the principle ways of promoting the interests of one , as opposed to another , is to gain influence over public policy decisions . |
| 33 | It seems Cantona kicked one of the Galatsaray subs when he tried to hide the ball . |
| 34 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 35 | I remember that we , we had erm a corridor fine in our hall for er just something stupid like they one of the ceiling tiles got broken or something . |
| 36 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 37 | First , you sterilise the water with one of the purification tablets supplied , then filter it through a carbon filter to produce drinkable water for tea , coffee , cold drinks or just for cleaning your teeth . |
| 38 | He has proposed closing down one of the purification plants . |
| 39 | One of the talking points of the year so far has been the coming of desktop publishing . |
| 40 | Well it 's one of the talking points this morning , if you 'd like to give me a call . |
| 41 | When the aircraft reached its required altitude , somewhere over France , a rear crew member was asked by the Captain to switch off one of the pressurisation systems . |
| 42 | The players include three guitarists , Bill Frisell , Vernon Reid and Robert Quine , who rage and soar far over the gutters of grunge-making ‘ Nightmare ’ , among many other things , one of the guitar albums of the year . |
| 43 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 44 | While just behind it , standing still and staring towards Minch 's cage , the shape that had seemed to loom so large , as if it was one of the standing stones of which Minch had been speaking , became the shape of a man . |
| 45 | And the minutes were taken by one of the Admin students and it was typed |
| 46 | No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something , |
| 47 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 48 | Dad scowled at Mum when one of the removal men said to him , ‘ Yow 've got a right one theea mate . |
| 49 | i spotted this in the last number of ‘ Peacock News ’ and what 's more : one of the norwegain fans sent a fax to wilko mentioning Leeds-fan Pedersen. this is taken from a copy of the fax printed in PN : |
| 50 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 51 | 3. one of the field lines coincides with part of the y axis connecting the two charges . |
| 52 | When Norman went to serve with the East Riding Yeomanry during the First World War , reaching the rank of captain , she worked from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. as a VAD at the Red Cross Hospital in Richmond , travelling each day by pony and trap or bicycle , carrying a fresh egg from one of the Field farms . |
| 53 | One of the field commanders , Edgar Chamorro , continually nagged by Fernandez to get into Nicaragua and fight , at last decided to venture 30 metres inside to attack a border post ; heavy fire drove him back and , retreating to a pay phone , he called the CIA in Langley , Virginia and asked them to send mortars . |
| 54 | When we arrive there 's a three inch pile of mail on the floor , the day 's diary overruns one of the computer screens and the breakfast table is set with grapefruit , muesli , cereals , Frank Cooper 's marmalade and a vase of flowers that may or may not have been pinks . |
| 55 | Somewhere , party glasses slid from a table and shattered on the floor and one of the computer consoles fell from the end of its desk with splintering impact . |
| 56 | This will emerge from extensive application of a range of exploratory techniques , and such a procedure is particularly important prior to using one of the computer packages designed for confirmatory statistics . |
| 57 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 58 | Unconverted barns were one of the success stories of the property boom years , with near-ruins selling for fantastic sums . |
| 59 | Despite these criticisms , many were in agreement that Whiterock College was indeed one of the success stories of Making Belfast Work . |
| 60 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |