Example sentences of "of [pron] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had thirteen children , of whom one boy and five girls lived to maturity . |
| 2 | John and Sarah Freeth had nine children , of whom one son and seven daughters are mentioned in his will . |
| 3 | I ai n't all that proud of meself one way and another , but there 's no cause for you to tell me . ’ |
| 4 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
| 5 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 6 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |
| 7 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 8 | Craig Davis is an international photographer/journalist , who has over 20 years experience in yacht racing , most recently with the entry of his one ton Top Gun in the 1987 US Admiral 's Cup trials |
| 9 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 10 | It projects a linkage with , and even with , of which one commentator solemnly remarks " the three Graces were represented as naked , and therefore afraid of chill weather " . |
| 11 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 12 | Effect of dietary calcium on normal small and large bowel mucosa proliferation Forty animals were randomly divided into two equal groups of which one group received calcium supplementation . |
| 13 | Effect of dietary calcium and 1,2-dimethylhydrazine on small and large bowel mucosa proliferation Sixty animals received dimethylhydrazine and were divided into two equal groups , of which one group received calcium supplementation . |
| 14 | The restored corn milling equipment is now powered by an electric motor and of the six pairs of original stones , four survive , of which one set is actually driven . |
| 15 | The easiest chords of two notes are , of course , those of which one note is an open string , but by ‘ double-stopping ’ , i.e. stopping two notes on adjacent strings , any of the following may be safely written : |
| 16 | I had hopes of you one time , I would n't mind if you had n't made a success of it , but for God 's sake at least try … |
| 17 | She had to search and destroy , scorch and defoliate , and she made the most of her one point of advantage , namely that I was a kept man . |
| 18 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 19 | He repeatedly told himself he 'd beat the stiffness out of it one day . |
| 20 | Maybe I 'll see the funny side of it one day . |
| 21 | Some of them have actually turned round and said keep it up Mr , keep it up Mr , we will see the end of it one day . |
| 22 | get in the top of it one day |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I still feel the consequences of it one way or another . |
| 24 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 25 | There 'll be more rail than road in this country of ours one day . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister 's routine report to the Commons after the European Community Council of Ministers ' summit in Strasbourg last weekend produced modest evidence of what one Tory called a ‘ softer and subtler ’ tone towards the European project . |
| 27 | The Free Presbyterians can be divided into a very small group of what one man called ‘ the bible college — God bless you brother — every blessing ’ types who remained distant from politics ; the majority who saw themselves as being unionist , but not especially so , who were forced into political activity by the alliance of O'Neillism and the ecumenical movement ; and a small circle of fully politicized ministers . |
| 28 | George Orwell in The road to Wigan pier ( 1937 ) : Another influential observer was J.B. Priestley ; his English journey ( 1934 ) , ‘ being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the Autumn of the year 1933 ’ , evoked another angry response to his urban world . |
| 29 | We understand that a code must be invoked in order to handle the grammatical aspect of what one person says , but the question of how we extract information from running speech remains the subject of much debate ( Marslen-Wilson and Welsh , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | The mystery of what one person finds fascinating in another has , after all , defeated the finest philosophers . |