Example sentences of "[prep] one of the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident had led to the dismissal of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III in June , after one of the victims of the affair , Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin , had publicly described the ordeal experienced by herself and at least 25 of her female colleagues at the hands of drunken male aviators . |
| 2 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |
| 3 | To take part , students have to join a society called the ‘ Pimlico Connection ’ ( after one of the schools in the scheme ) , and go through a day of ‘ orientation ’ to the kind of situations they will face in the classrooms . |
| 4 | The Blood Banner Society , the shadowy Japanese ultra-nationalist group , have issued a declaration to the effect that the Mishima , coincidentally named after one of the heroes of the movement , was lost through an unprovoked sneak attack , and that it would be avenged . |
| 5 | Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled . |
| 6 | The hysterical shrieks subsided into sobs , and Britta put her arm around Lacuna , comforting her and leading her slowly towards one of the doors in the perimeter of the chamber . |
| 7 | Some existing treatments of anaphor resolution ignore this problem by only considering one of the sources of candidates ; for example , the algorithms of Sidner ( 1979a ) and the work of Grosz , Joshi & Weinstein ( 1983 ) seem to treat only intersentential anaphora , while much work in theoretical linguistics does not venture beyond sentence boundaries . |
| 8 | Indeed , ‘ sovereignty ’ in this sense , is rare , as a quality of one of the institutions of a constitution as opposed to the constitution itself . |
| 9 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 10 | Cicognara 's notable library was acquired by the Vatican in 1824 and forms the topic of one of the talks at the conference 's first session , which is on ‘ The History of Art Libraries : L. Cicognara and his models ’ . |
| 11 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
| 12 | In my opinion Lord Roskill was undoubtedly right when he said in the course of the passage quoted that the assumption by the defendant of any of the rights of an owner could amount to an appropriation within the meaning of section 3(1) , and that the removal of an article from the shelf and the changing of the price label on it constituted the assumption of one of the rights of the owner and hence an appropriation within the meaning of the subsection . |
| 13 | In the first place , it seems to me that the switching of price labels on the article is in itself an assumption of one of the rights of the owner , whether or not it is accompanied by some other act such as removing the article from the shelf and placing it in a basket or trolley . |
| 14 | On the facts of the two cases it was unnecessary to decide whether , as argued by Mr. Jeffreys , the mere taking of the article from the shelf and putting it in a trolley or other receptacle amounted to the assumption of one of the rights of the owner , and hence an appropriation . |
| 15 | The destruction of property or the accused 's putting his hand over money in the victim 's pocket will be an usurpation of one of the rights of the owner . |
| 16 | The material may be either sequenced double stranded or rendered single stranded by asymmetrical polymerase chain reaction ( using very much less of one of the two primers ) , selective enzymatic digestion of one of the strands , or by selective capture of one of the strands by labelling one oligonucleotide with biotin and immobilising the product on streptavidin coated magnetic beads . |
| 17 | Semantic cohesiveness is even tighter if the meaning of one of the elements of a collocation requires a particular lexical item in its immediate context ( cases where all the elements are uniquely selective in this way seem not to occur ) . |
| 18 | At Stonesfield , where a design with " L " -shaped pieces occupies the centre of one of the medallions in the Bacchus mosaic , and where a mosaic with a saltire arrangement is associated with a more sophisticated pavement ; or at Woodchester , where the border panels of the Orpheus mosaic include eight with " L " -shaped pieces ( for possible connections of this kind of arrangement with that of interlaced squares , see Appendix E , section 1.4 p. 134 ) . |
| 19 | It was an appropriately Protestant justification for refutations of Harris ( of foreign , Catholic origin , ‘ a Spanish Jesuit ’ ) whose reading of the Bible was ‘ well worthy of one of the disciples of Loyola ’ . |
| 20 | They 're taking seven climbers to the Himalayas to Everest Base Camp and then hopefully onto the top of one of the spurs of the great mountain … |
| 21 | The results of one of the experiments by Kaye et al . |
| 22 | It went off prematurely , leaving half of one of the Iraqis on a nearby roof and the other under arrest . |
| 23 | And the way Bill writes about the tragedy of one of the women in the play is just remarkable . |
| 24 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 25 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 26 | The son of one of the Sheriffs of Glasgow , he lost his hearing at an early age and after first attending an ordinary day school , became one of the private pupils of the Headmaster of the Glasgow Institution . |
| 27 | There are references to mustard in Shakespeare : it is the name of one of the fairies in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Mustard-seed , and in Henry IV , Part 2 , Shakespeare refers to " Tewkesbury mustard " , Tewkesbury then being the centre for making it . |
| 28 | The removal of clause 54(4) will affect the position of a child of one of the teachers at the child 's school , because now the benefit will be assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case . ’ |
| 29 | Gian Galeazzo Visconti was responsible for the construction of a set of canals — here at the lowest point of the Lombardy Plain — and initiated the building of one of the wonders of Italy , the Duomo . |
| 30 | It can reflect character by the attitude of one of the persons of your story towards its . |