Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head a sheet of paper with the date and time of your meeting and make two columns , one for your essential objectives , the other of additional aims , which are desirable but not actually essential . |
| 2 | ‘ She reckons it were that chap she worked for , the one what lives in one of they new houses here in Upper Benbury . ’ |
| 3 | One of its principal aims is to make sure that those with disabilities can lead lives that are as normal as possible . |
| 4 | Despite its relentless slaughter , its numbers were still great enough to excite Gould 's astonishment when he visited one of its principal colonies on Green Island . |
| 5 | Greek culture has provided the creative exemplars of all subsequent cultures , including our own , and Socrates is one of its principal figures . |
| 6 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 7 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 8 | Nijman Zeetank 's UK director Clive Riggall said the company wanted to move from its former Lincoln base to the North west as one of its major customers was Pilkington Glass , based in St Helens . |
| 9 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 10 | In any event one of its major functions will be to ensure some form of trans-binary rationalisation of higher education by close liaison with the UGC and , to that effect , it is important that NAB should have included in its membership an observer from the UGC and that Christopher Ball should have been accorded similar status on the UGC . |
| 11 | Prudential regulation is necessary to protect customers and to provide stability to the financial system , and one of its major functions is to deter financial institutions from taking on excessive levels of risk . |
| 12 | One of its major successes was the vital role that it played in achieving a total ivory-ban in 1989 . |
| 13 | One of its major successes was the vital role that it played in achieving a total ivory-ban in 1989 . |
| 14 | One of its major effects on our planet was to cause it to flip ‘ upside-down ’ on its axis . |
| 15 | However , the eventual transference from the classical curriculum to a modern alternative , and the enhancement of English and Englishness which was one of its major products , drew on the raw materials provided by the scholarly work of the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Some people suffer very real financial loss with the death of the family wage-earner or as a result of the failure of an aircraft or one of its major components . |
| 17 | This interest is reflected in the National Curriculum for Science which devotes one of its major components to this type of work . |
| 18 | Programmes dependent upon interdisciplinary as well as international participation included the International Biological Programme ( 1964–74 ) , the International Hydrological Decade ( 1965–74 ) which embraced man 's influence as one of its major themes , and the Man and the Biosphere programme . |
| 19 | This places his discourse firmly in the domain of public cultural policy and returns us directly to the concerns of the Newbolt Committee , indeed to one of its major areas of anxiety : " Whether the class.consciousness which has hitherto formed the chief force of [ linguistic ] stability in Great Britain , will continue to influence the masses , has yet to be seen . " |
| 20 | The International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has developed a 5-year ( 1988–1992 ) Action Plan , which features the preservation of the river dolphins as one of its major objectives . |
| 21 | SARAH LOOSEMORE 's award of a place at Oxford University means that the British game may again have to contend with the loss of one of its major assets . |
| 22 | Even though California will be one of its major markets , everything was done in Japan . |
| 23 | They went back respected , admired and ready to take New Zealand Rugby League into one of its finest eras . |
| 24 | Few would argue that his departure from the court will leave as big a gap as did those of the last two justices to retire : Thurgood Marshall , the first black on the court , and William Brennan , its liberal conscience through four decades and one of its finest minds in two centuries . |
| 25 | One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted . |
| 26 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 27 | Deciding to cut my losses , I fled Ulm and promptly got lost in one of its industrial suburbs . |
| 28 | The secret of its safety lies in one of its inert ingredients . |
| 29 | Well , I 'll look in again , Aggie ; and mind you , see everything 's above board ’ — he glanced around the yard — ‘ no dealing in stolen property ; no organising of crime in any one of its many forms . |
| 30 | The most commonly used device for finding the eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix A is the power method , or one of its many variants , in which A is effectively raised to a high power . |