Example sentences of "one [prep] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically this was created shortly after nineteen sixty one as a rough way of judging the submissions which had been made for sketch plan purposes on the basis of the nineteen fifty five circular . |
| 2 | One of a former battery of Hortons to plug electrical unit ( 5 ) |
| 3 | It makes sense in what I said earlier about if you can identify numbers that are very seldom chosen , because when those numbers do come up then you 're one of a small minority of winners and therefore your stake is larger . |
| 4 | The TUC withheld its traditional endorsement of Labour , and Mr Bill Jordan , president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and one of a small group of TUC leaders who met Mr Kinnock every month before the election , even found time during the campaign to take a holiday in the Canary Islands . |
| 5 | Sound effects , too , are usually library material , or produced by one of a small group of specialists who know precisely how to reproduce , for example , the sound of a caterpillar dancing in a bowl of bird seed . |
| 6 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 7 | His company , VPL , is one of a small group of VR innovators in Silicon Valley , California , where advanced technologies appear to sit easily alongside research into human consciousness . |
| 8 | You have been selected as one of a small group of people your age to take part in Operation Island Survival . |
| 9 | From 1316 to 1319 Audley was one of a small group of courtiers , including Roger Damory [ q.v. ] and Hugh Despenser junior [ q.v. ] , husbands of the other two Gloucester co-heiresses , who kept a tight grip on Edward II 's patronage and favour ; though he was perhaps the least prominent of the three . |
| 10 | By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster . |
| 11 | Mr Smith was one of a small group of campaigners who visited electrical stores on High Row last weekend . |
| 12 | All three Suffolk players come from the Stowmarket club and two were successful : Edmund Player , one of a small handful of team members who will still be young enough to play for the team again next year , and Josephine Badger , who also represents Norfolk . |
| 13 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 14 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 15 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 16 | Conjunction expresses one of a small number of general relations . |
| 17 | Most of them belong to one of a small number of families of related molecules in which the individual members share the same basic molecular structure but are subtly different from each other ( figure ) . |
| 18 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 19 | After taking up the post , the professor will become eligible for consideration , in reviews which will take place from time to time , for one of a small number of additional awards which may be made in recognition of outstanding academic distinction and/or contribution to the academic work of the University ( e.g. in leadership in , or in the development of , some field of study ) . |
| 20 | The Bow , at 80 West Bow , Edinburgh , on the way down Victoria Street to the Grassmarket , is one of a small number of pubs which established the revival of real ale very firmly in the late 1980s . |
| 21 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , as one of a small band of mature students sponsored in 1937 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies , got a soccer Blue , and became a lifelong worker for the WEA . |
| 22 | He was one of a small nucleus of highly creative and far-seeing people assembled by Alec Clegg to make an educational vision a practical reality in the primary schools of the West Riding . |
| 23 | Currently dedicated to microgravity flight experiments , but also used for atmospheric studies and pressure standards calibrations , the CT-133 is one of a small fleet of aircraft based at the NRC Headquarters at Ottawa International Airport . |
| 24 | Even in the more difficult case of an unrehearsed drill movement , the order given will be one of a small set of possible orders which fit into a structure made familiar to all concerned by training . |
| 25 | Since it is one of a small set of possible orders there is little chance of ambiguity if the structure has been absorbed . |
| 26 | It should now be clear that the pronunciation described in this course is only one of a vast number of possible varieties . |
| 27 | Can one doubt that such a tale is one of a tightening grasp of an actual reality ? |
| 28 | Each location must be capable of being in one of a discrete number of states . |
| 29 | Thia is one of a rare breed of miniature horses . |
| 30 | It was even led by a genuine missionary : Reverend Ernest Frederick Waddy , one of a multi-collared brotherhood of gifted Sydney cricketers . |