Example sentences of "of one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Over a period of one year we were continually evaluating our frac pack job performance , changing one component at a time until we achieved well performance that has virtually eliminated problems caused by damage near the well bore , ’ Park says . |
| 2 | We need stability over the medium term at the very least in order to produce the units that we need , not this sort of one minute you 're off , one minute you 're not and again , if you were serious the resources were already there , there in terms of the capital receipts that people already had . |
| 3 | Chris Heginbotham , when director of Mind , wrote of one sight he had witnessed in one well-known hospital south-east of London : |
| 4 | But the one album I 've ever had that is n't an irritating is it 's , each side of that tape is forty five minutes long and you can fit it , apart from about er right at the very end of one song you can fit the whole album on a C ninety . |
| 5 | In spite of Tracey 's assurance , the library was not easy to find ; after the initial good start , it was signposted only intermittently , and at the end of one corridor she was left to guess . |
| 6 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 7 | I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this . |
| 8 | Avril knew of one person she could turn to for support — Peter Spencer . |
| 9 | In fact , in the middle of one night they came and moved my bed to another part of the hospital without saying a word to me . |
| 10 | It is very important that as you come to the end of one bottle you contact your Homœopath to arrange for the next one to be made up . |
| 11 | In the course of one chapter we find the following phrases , in this order : there seems no explanation on Darwinian grounds It is no easier to explain It is hard to understand It is not easy to understand It is equally difficult to explain I do not find it easy to comprehend I do not find it easy to see … |
| 12 | In the space of one chapter it is impossible to cover all the detailed aspects of investment appraisal . |
| 13 | Of one preincarnation he is certain : he was , at some point during the Roman Empire , the director of a troupe of travelling comedians , the sort of plausible rogue who bought women in Sicily and turned them into actresses , a rowdy mixture of teacher , pimp and artist . |
| 14 | Through the ground-floor window of one house she saw a room lined with dusty books . |
| 15 | At the end of one week she worked out the average number of ticks per square to give the average number of tantrums per day . |
| 16 | At the end of one week she discovered that he rocked , on average , for 45 minutes at a time . |
| 17 | With a gallant wave of one hand he invited Melissa to sit down and with the other placed a small pile of well-thumbed paperbacks on a table in front of her . |
| 18 | Whatever his calculations may have been , of one thing we can be sure : he was grievously mistaken . |
| 19 | But of one thing we can be certain : karate has something for everyone . |
| 20 | Certainly , erm , it has changed this year , erm , but the arrangements now are , that we produce our report across the year , with i , and as you can appreciate the report summarises various , of one thing we done during the with officers around the county round the Erm , at the , at the end of November , we commit to writing this report in summary version , which we then discuss with the Chief Executive and the County Treasurer in particular , they take whatever soundings they wish with other offices and then we agree that letter . |
| 21 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 22 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |
| 23 | But of one thing she is certain … |
| 24 | Of one thing I am certain — the curriculum has changed since my young days . |
| 25 | Of one thing I am certain : I am sure we all agree that what has emerged over the last two years has exceeded our expectations . |
| 26 | Of one thing I am sure and that 's that all problems , not just some but all , start either in the head or in the genitals . |
| 27 | Of one thing I am fairly certain , namely that the glassfibre Seayak will carve through waves better . |
| 28 | Of one thing I am sure : the last thing that business in west Lancashire wants is the election of a Labour Government , who will put up business taxes , put up costs and impose a minimum wage . |
| 29 | In the space of one page he describes it as ‘ indescribably cruel and insane … savage , insensate , barely conceivable to the well-constructed imagination ’ , ‘ boring ’ and ‘ demoralizing ’ . |
| 30 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |