Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 We consider a major change to be any of the following changes made before the day of departure : change of departure airport , resort area , outward or return time of departure by more than 12 hours , or substitution of the accommodation you have booked with one of a lower price or official classification .
2 Although the tendency for a , substantial share of the self-employed to classify themselves as " managers " ( see Creigh et al , 1986 ) reduces the meaningfulness of occupation analysis , the general picture is one of a higher share of self-employment amongst temporary workers who could be viewed as " professionals " and a much lower level amongst those in low grade white collar jobs .
3 In the spring , when the air was still cool , he wore one of a lighter weight and colour .
4 The last situation is the system of alternating tripods of support , which is thus seen to be only one of a larger number of possible gaits .
5 First , the Bank of England has already returned to the gilt market as an issuer and the prospect over the next few years is one of a larger PSBR and gilt issuance .
6 If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative .
7 Young designers to have suffered a similar fate to Ronay include Val Piriou , Joe Casely-Hayford and John Galliano , although Galliano is one of the luckier ones .
8 Lesley Taylor 's son David is one of the luckier victims of the A 48 .
9 It was n't one of the dearer versions of anything .
10 Little Lough Shean led into middle-sized Lough Meenagh , until finally we faced an inland sea , Lough Allen , one of the bigger bulges in the River Shannon .
11 They want space and they would expect it to be one of the bigger cars .
12 On the other hand , there is no evidence yet of transfer to public transport ; in a small town like Buxtehude this would not be expected anyway , but in the larger city schemes it seems likely that the failure to induce any significant modal switching will be one of the bigger disappointments of the experimental programme .
13 One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury .
14 The Glasgow High-Kelvinside prop AL WATT , at 6ft. 5ins and 19 stone one of the bigger ‘ beasties ’ on the British scene , discusses his shift from lock to front row forward with BILL McLAREN .
15 It was Sister Aloysius who turned her head and cried to one of the bigger girls , ‘ Go and fetch Reverend Mother !
16 They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it .
17 Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous .
18 One of the bigger vans made an effective screen at the end of a line of the unmarked pool cars , meaning that he could look them over without being seen from the main building .
19 I was able to sell out quite profitably to one of the bigger air-freight operators .
20 An attack on Kabul or on one of the bigger provincial towns was a temptation even before the Russians left .
21 An elderly lady who owned one of the bigger villas , Mrs Richards was a well-known figure on the complex , trotting along to the sauna with her parasol shielding her face from the hot sun , and eating paella regularly at Don Pedro 's restaurant before taking a dip in the pool .
22 Instead of merging with each other , or one of the bigger concerns , in the early seventies three of the smaller firms signed affiliation agreements with the American Big Three as MITI opposition was overcome by political pressure for foreign capital liberalization .
23 One of the simpler aspects of this is the relative importance of syntax versus semantics .
24 She saw a black labrador paddle out of one of the breakwater pools and shake itself , in a flurry of spray .
25 Civil servants in what was normally one of the sleepier Whitehall departments had enjoyed the intoxicating experience of mobilizing the empire for global conflict .
26 Did you know that ice cream can be one of the lower calorie desserts ?
27 BELOW : An advertisement from 1930 illustrating the Stonehouse Paper and Bag Mills , housed in one of the lower Frome Valley 's former cloth mills .
28 Beyond the hedge of red-leaved crotons that marked the uphill boundary of Nana 's yard stood a dilapidated shack that was unoccupied , the property of a woman in one of the lower villages who owned several plots in the valley .
29 Apparently every now and then it did succeed in reaching one of the lower perches , but I never saw it do so and to this day I do n't know how it managed it .
30 Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors .
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