Example sentences of "one [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 2 | Director Barbara Radcliffe showed me one off the old processes . |
| 3 | An honest vote for Labour — or an evasive one for the Liberal Democrats , which will also help Mr Kinnock to Downing Street — signals a return to Britain 's long , tragic , doomed pursuit of a soft option . |
| 4 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 5 | The idea of a pioneer was a very important one for the early Christians . |
| 6 | we get one Mark we 're going to get one for the right reasons indeed . |
| 7 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 8 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 9 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 10 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
| 11 | The divide between theory and empirical data had long been a recurrent and problematic one for the social sciences , not least within sociology . |
| 12 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 13 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 14 | Did you hear the one about the Russian soldiers on parade ? |
| 15 | The women regard this one of the great triumphs of COPPES , ad previously the food was very low nutritive value and unhygienically prepared , the source of continuous gastro-enteritic disorders . |
| 16 | er the other one of us will erm take the one of the other cars and put Philip in that and drive him there . |
| 17 | Morgan was the only one of the nineteenth-century anthropologists who , like Marx , was interested in what led to the transformation of one social system into another , and in what led to the breakup of past systems . |
| 18 | Acting on a local tip-off from the one of the affected cases , the local paper has questioned Council Gerald Pratt , and he has denied that , the fact that the restaurant was owned by the chairman of the Health Committee had any bearing on the matter |
| 19 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 20 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 21 | This is achieved by inverting the file , i.e. by providing lists of records or record references possessing each one of the various attributes in turn . |
| 22 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 23 | Ember moved with an ease that soon took him out of sight among the frost-clawed rocks and left her panting , furious with him but unable to catch up to say a single one of the angry remarks cartwheeling through her mind . |
| 24 | Of course , his lordship and his colleagues were concerned to brief each other as accurately as possible on each one of the expected participants ; but overwhelmingly , their concerns centred on a single figure — that of M. Dupont , the French gentleman — and on his likely sympathies and antipathies . |
| 25 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 26 | Glasgow City Brightsiders are the only one of the leading men 's sides in action and they can overtake Edinburgh Burger Kings at the top of the men 's first division if , as they should , they take care of the young Cumnock team at Cumnock Academy tomorrow . |
| 27 | It is also of relevance however because it is the only one of the experimental areas that deals principally with a town centre and thus with functions that are as much commercial and retail as they are residential . |
| 28 | The only one of the renewable sources currently commercially exploited on a significant scale is hydro-electric power which in 1983 contributed about 7% to world energy supply . |
| 29 | Not only is the passage which Husameddin quotes taken from the obituary section for the year 834 , but where Husameddin 's text apparently has ( " and he returned to his own land in Rajab of the year 834 " ) , every other one of the numerous manuscripts available , whether directly or indirectly through published texts or secondary sources , has ( " and he returned and died in his own land in the month of Rajab " ) . |
| 30 | One carries out investigations under the Companies Acts , one under the Financial Services Acts , and there is a team of lawyers that carry out the prosecutions and advise the investigators . |