Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there are two separate applications — one for the King 's Cross project and one for the high-speed link — it is difficult to see how the two environmental assessments can be taken together . |
| 2 | In a zoo , one of a keeper 's jobs is to keep the babirusa 's tusks trimmed . |
| 3 | Normally one of a town 's functions is more important than the others . |
| 4 | Champagnes made with a high proportion of Pinot Meunier sometimes have an earthy tone of fruit and when the grapes have come from less favourable sites , there can be a distinctly sweet aroma which reminds one of a confectioner 's shop . |
| 5 | A misguided attempt to mediate by one of the archbishop 's personnel , one Count Arco , led to Mozart 's celebrated exit from Colloredo 's service with a box on the ear and a boot on the backside . |
| 6 | Simultaneously Taylor became one of the Archbishop 's chaplains . |
| 7 | It was one of the temple 's functions to produce these effects and they are part and parcel of the Minoan religious experience ; the temple itself was in a very real sense an extreme expression of that experience . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you one of the landlady 's girls ? ’ asked Dolly . |
| 9 | Oldtimers will remember the famous panel from the US comic strip Pogo that had one of the cartoon 's forest creatures utter the immortal words , ‘ We have seen the enemy and he is us . ’ |
| 10 | In a recent case involving a driver of a heavy goods vehicle an oral promise was made by one of the driver 's managers that the driver , a Mr Rump , would not be required to work anywhere in the UK , as mentioned in his contract of employment , but only in the south of England because of special family ties . |
| 11 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 12 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 13 | As one of the composer 's biographers has observed , ‘ the German victory over France in 1870–71 was the grand occasion for the digging up of great heros of the French past . |
| 14 | On one of the Sphinx 's toes there is quite a passable poem in ancient Greek : |
| 15 | As Ginsberg read out one of the Russian 's works , the writer himself stalked out of the hall . |
| 16 | 9.1 For goods which are manufactured by the Seller or which bear one of the Seller 's trade marks , the Seller grants the following guarantee : |
| 17 | It is the story of the dust-heaps left by the miserly contractor Harmon ( see DUST ) , which pass first to Boffin , ‘ the golden dustman ’ , and at last to the heir , Harmon 's son ( the young man who feigns death , and ‘ our mutual friend ’ of the title ) , whose identity is one of the plot 's mysteries . |
| 18 | One of the ferry 's departure points would virtually be on her doorstep . |
| 19 | Burning oil which had leaked from the tanker , the Agip Abruzzo , engulfed the ferry and all except one of the ferry 's crew and passengers were burned to death or drowned . |
| 20 | ‘ We had our own large suite of nurseries in which to play ’ , wrote one of the earl 's granddaughters , from which , when there were big evening dinners , the children would ‘ creep down the back staircase ’ to be fed with sausages , turkey , ice-cream , and nuts in the ‘ comfortable sanctum ’ of the housekeeper . |
| 21 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 22 | Sir Richard , the eldest , was probably the ‘ master Tunstall ’ who was one of the duke 's councillors and William was one of Gloucester 's feoffees . |
| 23 | Thomas Witham became one of the duke 's councillors . |
| 24 | Sir Richard , the eldest , was probably the ‘ master Tunstall ’ who was one of the duke 's councillors and William was one of Gloucester 's feoffees . |
| 25 | Thomas Witham became one of the duke 's councillors . |
| 26 | Thomas Mountford , Warwick 's retainer , acted as guarantor of an arbitration by Gloucester and was given an annuity by him after his accession , while his kinsman John was one of the duke 's chaplains . |
| 27 | Thomas Mountford , Warwick 's retainer , acted as guarantor of an arbitration by Gloucester and was given an annuity by him after his accession , while his kinsman John was one of the duke 's chaplains . |
| 28 | Anderson seemed to be the only person at home ; he sold them jugs of ale , small beer for the children ; James 's credit was good for a stone jar of whisky and one of the Duke 's men was detailed to carry it on his back in a wicker frame . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps one of the Duke 's men will turn against him … |
| 30 | Your two agents , Calcraft and Warnham , may have been followed to London and killed by one of the Duke 's retainers or by these secret Templars . |