Example sentences of "and one of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At Naba we were overtaken by the hospital train and discovered that their food supply had run out , so we handed over a whole case of sausages and one of tinned peaches .
2 Despite its ease of access this remains a wild place , and one of many moods .
3 prices in and t a and one of two things will happen .
4 Some would seem to be associated with duns , there being three in the Dun Finn area , a large one at Dun Bhoreraig , some to be seen from the fort in the field below the steep rock face of Dun Nosbridge , and one of fifteen feet across at Trudernish .
5 Joan Templeman was born and grew up in Glasgow , the daughter of a carpenter , and one of six children .
6 The day consisted of eight periods of thirty-five minutes each — and one of thirty minutes namely the first , the tutorial period .
7 Two of 16 patients in the cyclosporin group and one of 10 patients in the placebo group had moderately active colitis at entry into the study .
8 Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’
9 Because , look at , I 'm not , you know , I 'm not er gon na even talk about the disaster at airport things , you know , the taking off and landing , if you 've got a stadium nearby with a lot of people in it , and one of these disasters happened to happen , I know we 're not looking for that , but if it does , you 're gon na have a stadium full of people if a plane comes down , well , you know .
10 The company ran its own miniature exchange with five or six operators , and one of these girls would put the subscriber through to the theatre , concert hall or church of his choice .
11 If satisfactory control of hypertension is not achieved with dietary modification and one of these agents , then they can be used in combination .
12 These were tricycles with a large box on the front and one of these vendors was Mr Maddocks of Upper Halling .
13 Moths , caterpillars , spiders , long-nosed bugs , luminous beetles , harmless butterflies disguised as wasps , wasps shaped like ants , sticks that walk , leaves that open wings and fly — the variety will be enormous and one of these creatures will almost certainly be undescribed by science .
14 Yeah , and one got stuck in the , there was an entry between my father-in-law 's shop and the next one and one of these cattle ran down the entry and got stuck in the entry , you know it was only narrow and the they had to shoot it , but er oh yes it was a , that was a thing you never hear of today and you never hear of people putting tannin down when people are ill do you ?
15 There are of course notable exceptions and one of these forms an excellent model for a particular strategy towards multimedia : involvement through strategic alliance .
16 A series of bar charts and summaries offer no less than seventeen different analyses ( fig 4 ) , and one of these charts is shown in fig 5 where an ideal model is conveniently offered as a super-imposition .
17 The unpredictability of death can easily lead to embarrassment for the firm , not least because of the fundamental obligation of the personal representatives of a deceased partner to realise the assets comprised in his estate at an early date : and one of these assets will be the deceased 's share in the surplus assets of the firm or ( where the agreement so provides ) the right to be paid out for the value of that share .
18 ‘ There is some mystery surrounding your birth — I just know there is ! — and one of these days I mean to discover the truth . ’
19 And one of these days I 'm going to catch one of those ducks .
20 I go shrimp pink , which occasionally turns to lobster red , and one of these days this dangerous pretence will seem me taken straight from the beach to the burns unit .
21 But i if while we 've got them we will still be there we will still be called to put them out and one of these days we 'll be dealing with bonfires when somebody 's house is on fire and we need to be there instead .
22 He follows young girls home from school and one of these days … ’
23 Darren said you know the girls in the were saying that you were n't well , how was you and one of these days .
24 The other common instruction format is the two-address format , where each instruction holds the addresses of two operands , and one of these addresses is further used to hold the result .
25 A. M. Three policemen on the evening patrol — lots of publicans used to leave bottles of beer on the doorstep for policemen and one of these policemen , he liked his booze .
26 They make as if they 're gon na break into the room , and one of these guys is enjoying himself saying how he 's decided to rape her and then hand her to the dog .
27 They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction .
28 And one of these hands may wield the instrument of pastiche .
29 Light is obtained from a water-cooled mercury vapour lamp and one of three wavelengths 365 , 436 , or 546 nm can be selected by means of an appropriate filter .
30 Owen was the son of an ironmonger and one of seven children .
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