Example sentences of "one of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the cat can see nothing and feel nothing and yet it still reacts to the loud noise you make , then yours is one of the fortunate , hearing white cats . |
| 2 | It is highly unlikely that you are reading this book if you happen to be one of the fortunate few ! |
| 3 | Marie Thwaites has a sunny disposition , rarely stops smiling and has happy memories of her experiences as a hired hand , She considers herself one of the fortunate ones , although her innocent description of the daily regime she had to endure would be considered intolerable indeed cruel today . |
| 4 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 5 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 6 | ‘ The medals represent the overall effort of the entire UN peace-keeping force in Bosnia , but nevertheless I 'm deeply honoured to have been recognised in this way , I 'm just one of the fortunate ones . ’ |
| 7 | Marie Brown thought she was one of the fortunate ones to sail through unaffected . |
| 8 | He was David , David Koresh 's brother-in-law and one of the mighty men . |
| 9 | He 's lying on the ground , and one of the inch-high companions walks in front of his face to verify he 's dead . |
| 10 | The city of Nagpur in the State of Maharashtra , located at the geographical centre of India , was considered to be the capital of their empire formerly known as Naga Dwipa , one of the surviving relics of old India known as Bharata Varsha . |
| 11 | BOB DOE , Fighter Pilot is the autobiography of one of the surviving high scoring aces of the RAF during the Battle of Britain . |
| 12 | But the clearest evidence that Gloucester 's links with the Clifford connection preceded his possession of Skipton is his grant of a fee to one of the surviving Clifford brothers , Robert , in 1471 . |
| 13 | Appalachian English is one of the surviving non-standard regional dialects of English in the United States and it 's associated with the residents of the Appalachian mountain range . |
| 14 | Next up was a hard-looking fellow I remembered as one of the surviving Africa veterans , a prodigal who 'd been seduced by Martinho but had redeemed himself by daring and sacrifice under Osvaldo — I was surprised he was still alive . |
| 15 | But the clearest evidence that Gloucester 's links with the Clifford connection preceded his possession of Skipton is his grant of a fee to one of the surviving Clifford brothers , Robert , in 1471 . |
| 16 | These included two Mae Wests from Don Bennett 's Halifax , a section of one of the specially-adapted naval mines that were carried by the Halifaxes , various flying helmets , a leather flying suit and a rudder from Lancaster L7572 ‘ L ’ . |
| 17 | b , Each curve shows the trace in the longitude-velocity diagram of one of the closed orbits of a , when the orbit is viewed along the dotted lines . |
| 18 | There was no sound in the house , apart from what might have been the twittering of a caged bird coming from one of the closed doors on the ground floor . |
| 19 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 20 | It is sited unusually , on flat land rather than atop one of the encircling hills . |
| 21 | Otherwise , and particularly if she lived in Edinburgh , she could answer one of the advertisements for a housemaid ; or she might , increasingly as the century wore on , try for a coveted job as shop assistant ; she might enter one of the monotonous and repetitive unskilled industrial jobs in say paper-bag making ; or use her school training in needlework to become a dressmaker . |
| 22 | The highlight of the the Post Office Counters Development Day was the assault on Said Aouita 's world record for 5,000m and one of the 25-person teams smashed the record by 12 seconds clocking 12mins 46.46secs for the 12 7-lap race . |
| 23 | There were several from the Gold Coast besides Nkrumah , notably Joe Appiah , a barrister and one of the Ashanti aristocracy , and Dr Kurankyi Taylor , another lawyer , a Fanti from the coast : a neighbouring tribe to Nkrumah 's Nzima people . |
| 24 | In her childhood her father was obliged to take a job , not in the colonial administration which would have been more or less acceptable , but as a manager of one of the Peruvian silver mines . |
| 25 | Typically , Morelli participated in one of the Swiss glacial expeditions organised by Louis Agassiz . |
| 26 | You could hardly leave Zurich without seeing one of the Swiss floor shows . |
| 27 | In many situations you will need to use one of the space-saving stairs specially designed for lofts . |
| 28 | Its size and shape shows it is ‘ one of the posterior ribs of a small cetacean similar to species of the modern dolphin genera Tursiops or Lagenorhynchus . ’ |
| 29 | That illusion was quickly dispersed , however — largely as a result of a walk down one of the crooked alleys that mark Brighton from most other seaside towns . |
| 30 | Well it seems to me that the utilities and the supplies to the Iraqui forces are one of the warm aims . |