Example sentences of "one of a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 One of a former battery of Hortons to plug electrical unit ( 5 )
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 You have been selected as one of a small group of people your age to take part in Operation Island Survival .
8 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 .
9 By the late 1230s he had become one of a small group of professional lawyers practising in the Common Bench in Westminster .
10 Mr Smith was one of a small group of campaigners who visited electrical stores on High Row last weekend .
11 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 .
12 CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say .
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 John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ .
15 Conjunction expresses one of a small number of general relations .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Since it is one of a small set of possible orders there is little chance of ambiguity if the structure has been absorbed .
25 It should now be clear that the pronunciation described in this course is only one of a vast number of possible varieties .
26 Can one doubt that such a tale is one of a tightening grasp of an actual reality ?
27 Each location must be capable of being in one of a discrete number of states .
28 Thia is one of a rare breed of miniature horses .
29 It was even led by a genuine missionary : Reverend Ernest Frederick Waddy , one of a multi-collared brotherhood of gifted Sydney cricketers .
30 ONE OF a new generation of Aids drugs is being tested on patients .
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