Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One after another behave as though I insulted them in offering them anything but a Cabinet place . |
| 2 | London in the 1950s suffered horrendous ‘ smogs ’ ( smoky fogs ) largely through burning coal in domestic grates ; the one of 1952 had an estimated pH of 1.6 , which made it more acid than lemon juice . |
| 3 | The yellow chair , besides being brushstrokes and pigment , besides being a yellow chair , was one of twelve bought for a company of artists who were to inhabit the Yellow House , the white walls of which should blaze with sunflowers as the windows of Gothic cathedrals blazed with coloured light . |
| 4 | The option was one of six outlined in a consultation paper on how to deal with the increasing abuses suffered by motorists . |
| 5 | He was one of six chosen from a brigade of 40 to accompany Quinn when he then left to work at Ettington Park , Staffordshire . |
| 6 | Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens ordered the reopening on Sept. 4 of the Islamic University in Gaza , one of six closed by Israel at the start of the intifada in 1987 , as " part of a continuing policy by the government to open all universities " . |
| 7 | Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up . |
| 8 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 9 | I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory |
| 10 | There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP . |
| 11 | A fundraising hike , to kick off from Osmotherly , near Northallerton , will be one of 185 taking place across the country . |
| 12 | Dick 's plane was built in 1941 by the Curtiss Wright Corporation in Buffalo , New York , for the RAF as Kittyhawk I AK899 but was one of 72 transferred to the RCAF , becoming 1051 . |
| 13 | The Award is one of four made annually to encourage the local community to mark outstanding achievements . |
| 14 | The chosen logo was one of four developed by Minale Tattersfield , the design shop , at a cost of £50,000 . |
| 15 | The laboratory , one of four run by the Science and Engineering Research Council , has come under increasing financial pressure as its £20m annual budget has fallen sharply in real terms . |
| 16 | The poem with that title was one of four published under the pseudonym Sagitta in 1905 in the Berlin gay journal Der Eigene , which had begun in 1896 as an anarchist journal in the direction of Max Stirner ( reflected in the title : der Eigene equals self-owner , in the meaning given that word by Stirner ) , but from 1898 was openly homosexual . |
| 17 | The Iraqi plane was one of four to cross the parallel that day ; the first two had flown north when challenged , but the second two ( one of which escaped ) had turned to confront the US fighters , in what US officials considered a deliberate attempt to test the resolve of the allies — the USA , the United Kingdom and France — in policing the " no-fly zone " established in August [ see pp. 39068-69 ] . |
| 18 | This Carpenter 's In-House store at Headington in Oxford is one of twenty-six accross the country that has shut up shop for good . |
| 19 | A very different book , much more idiosyncratic in its structure and its procedures , is the one of 1938 called in the American printing Culture , and iii the London edition Guide to Kulchur . |
| 20 | Now his Silverhill Colliery is one of 10 given a High Court reprieve — but Martin has a different reason for smiling . |
| 21 | V7799 , was one of five shot down by 7/JG26 . |
| 22 | The award is one of five given this year by the British Urban Regeneration Association . |
| 23 | A Barra fisherman 's son , one of eight born to a couple who lived as squatters in a foreshore hut , ‘ was brought up in my grandfather 's across the road : ‘ I had everything in their house . |
| 24 | Another woman in her mid-sixties said she had been one of eight raped by ‘ Serbian irregulars ’ . |
| 25 | The leading vehicle is open brake second ( micro buffet ) No 9107 , one of eight converted from Mk2 BSOs during the 1980s . |
| 26 | A Jacobite wine glass , enamelled with a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie and one of eight thought to have been made in Edinburgh around 1765 , is expected to make £15–20,000 ( $25–35,000 ) . |
| 27 | It 's one of nine scattered through Europe and until recently was the only one not allowing smoking . |
| 28 | really think one of that did n't she ? |
| 29 | It was possibly one of hundreds carried and used in this hall for eating . |
| 30 | A full-scale rebellion broke out last week when one of New york 's 32 local education boards was suspended for refusing to implement what it called ‘ dangerously misleading propaganda promoting homosexuality ’ . |