Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain took Corbett by the sleeve , led him over to them and tapped one of the players on the shoulder . |
| 2 | One of the players on the green below was about to hole his putt . |
| 3 | That was one of the questions on our entrance exam was |
| 4 | But Brown Owl forgot that one of the questions on it asked how old you are and that it is rude to ask a lady how old she is . |
| 5 | Okland was interviewed in one of the papers on why Frank was included and mentioned the strong Turkey game and also spoke about Frank not playing in Leeds : ’ Frank not playing is strange . |
| 6 | George Castro , one of the scientists on the project , says optical computer memories are a ‘ long shot , but a serious possibility ’ . |
| 7 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 8 | One of the women on this Sunderland estate told me they all recognised the drive : " It 's part of becoming a member of the community instead of just a reckless teenager . |
| 9 | One of the gir er one of the women on the course is er she 's , she said is the introduction course on , week after next st |
| 10 | He placed one of the teeth on the saucer , then with a small downward jab of the shaker crushed it ; it was brittle , like a liqueur chocolate . |
| 11 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was while I was crossing one of the canals on my way back here that I happened to catch sight of you and your friend . |
| 13 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 14 | In one of the meditations on the Passion to be examined in the last part of the chapter Rolle vividly explores the nature of such a loss . |
| 15 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 16 | Indeed , one of the criteria on which he makes his choice of artist and subject is ‘ the fact that public taste is very definitely not the same as refined gallery taste . |
| 17 | One of the crossbows on the wall is magical , but was n't quite enchanted properly . |
| 18 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |
| 19 | There is no such provision in law , and that is one of the things on which we shall legislate . |
| 20 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 21 | You have one of the villas on the high point of the hill , do n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | But are we left with a view of God as one of the actors on the world stage in the manner of the pagan gods , a benign Zeus who ‘ comes down ’ from Olympus to perform what is morally uplifting on earth ? |
| 23 | I must admit I really enjoyed working with him , and we did tracks like ‘ The Laughing Gnome ’ and I have to say , I am one of the gnomes on that record and am responsible for some of the terrible jokes on it as well . |
| 24 | One of the contests on Tuesday was the primary election for Illinois 's next governor . |
| 25 | He wore a lime green tracksuit , gold sovereign ring and one of the fingers on his right hand was badly bruised . |
| 26 | I have discussed active transport at some length , because it is one of the processes on which the maintenance of spatial differentiation in organisms ultimately depends . |
| 27 | Now I am one of the officers on there which gives two members from Wiltshire a seat on this particular committee . |
| 28 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 29 | A buyer , on the other hand , may well be concerned about such sub-contracting , since one of the factors on which he decided to place the contract with the seller may well have been his perception of the seller 's own quality standards and competence to carry out the contract . |
| 30 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |