Example sentences of "one of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would fly through the warp to any one of a million worlds . |
| 2 | One of a former battery of Hortons to plug electrical unit ( 5 ) |
| 3 | The culture of the student experience is one of a self-questioning voyage , not in any self-indulgent form , but rooted in a rigorous self-critical examination of what is being taught , learned and achieved . |
| 4 | In the youngest age group , 65–69 years , most elderly people are living with their spouse , 37 per cent as one of a married couple whose partner is over 65 , and 20 per cent with a partner under 65 . |
| 5 | From the outside , the immediate impression is one of a traditional culture , with its own way of going on , more or less impenetrable to an outsider . |
| 6 | It makes sense in what I said earlier about if you can identify numbers that are very seldom chosen , because when those numbers do come up then you 're one of a small minority of winners and therefore your stake is larger . |
| 7 | Delta is one of a small triangle ; the other members are Zeta , which is a K-type star showing as clear orange in binoculars , and Epsilon ( 4.2 ) . |
| 8 | The floor was carpeted and the impression was one of a small library in a rather run-down country house . |
| 9 | I stated with authorial authority that only people who knew about the way the murder was committed ( a complicated affair using an invented tree-bark that became hard when wetted ) could have done it and I implied , but with fearful fair play nowhere explicitly stated , that this knowledge could only have been gained by one of a small circle who had watched the Maharajah play a certain practical joke . |
| 10 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 11 | The TUC withheld its traditional endorsement of Labour , and Mr Bill Jordan , president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and one of a small group of TUC leaders who met Mr Kinnock every month before the election , even found time during the campaign to take a holiday in the Canary Islands . |
| 12 | Sound effects , too , are usually library material , or produced by one of a small group of specialists who know precisely how to reproduce , for example , the sound of a caterpillar dancing in a bowl of bird seed . |
| 13 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 14 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 15 | His company , VPL , is one of a small group of VR innovators in Silicon Valley , California , where advanced technologies appear to sit easily alongside research into human consciousness . |
| 16 | You have been selected as one of a small group of people your age to take part in Operation Island Survival . |
| 17 | From 1316 to 1319 Audley was one of a small group of courtiers , including Roger Damory [ q.v. ] and Hugh Despenser junior [ q.v. ] , husbands of the other two Gloucester co-heiresses , who kept a tight grip on Edward II 's patronage and favour ; though he was perhaps the least prominent of the three . |
| 18 | By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster . |
| 19 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Smith was one of a small group of campaigners who visited electrical stores on High Row last weekend . |
| 21 | All three Suffolk players come from the Stowmarket club and two were successful : Edmund Player , one of a small handful of team members who will still be young enough to play for the team again next year , and Josephine Badger , who also represents Norfolk . |
| 22 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 23 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 24 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 25 | Conjunction expresses one of a small number of general relations . |
| 26 | Most of them belong to one of a small number of families of related molecules in which the individual members share the same basic molecular structure but are subtly different from each other ( figure ) . |
| 27 | It was the largest Fiat anyone had ever seen ( and was , in fact , one of a small number commissioned by the Fascists for the use of Mussolini and other top members of the hierarchy ) . |
| 28 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 29 | After taking up the post , the professor will become eligible for consideration , in reviews which will take place from time to time , for one of a small number of additional awards which may be made in recognition of outstanding academic distinction and/or contribution to the academic work of the University ( e.g. in leadership in , or in the development of , some field of study ) . |
| 30 | The Bow , at 80 West Bow , Edinburgh , on the way down Victoria Street to the Grassmarket , is one of a small number of pubs which established the revival of real ale very firmly in the late 1980s . |