Example sentences of "[subord] one of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 'Cos there 's more than one of them , is n't there . |
| 32 | However , a subject did not see the same material in more than one of its forms . |
| 33 | You can then turn the parcel round if you wish to decorate more than one of its faces . |
| 34 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |
| 35 | This prohibition is not a mysterious property of the grammatical process of anaphora ; it is simply a consequence of the fact that light resists , as it were , the simultaneous activation of more than one of its senses . |
| 36 | Unfortunately , it is not clear how to characterise those contexts , like the following , in which a hyponym can be more normal than one of its superordinates : |
| 37 | That let's off more power than one of mine in the lounge . |
| 38 | If I do n't manage the bedspread I know that my friend would really like a loose , plain , black sweater in fine wool for winter or a synthetic yarn for summer rather than one of my more dashing designer confections . |
| 39 | It is not ever so contagious , so as more than one of your fish was affected I would put it down to your water conditions . |
| 40 | ‘ Other than dying , nothing more terrible than one of your kind getting her claws into him and then refusing to let go over all the years he spent struggling to free himself . ’ |
| 41 | Some offences , cruelty to children or animals , violent crime against the vulnerable old , could still produce a flare of the spectacular Massingham temper which had resulted in more than one of his forebears facing a duel or a court martial . |
| 42 | If Marryat made this choice , it was because he wrote from within the experience of many years serving in the navy from 1806 , not continuously but when employment was available : more than one of his novels was written in the cabin of a ship under his command . |
| 43 | And if you happen to see him sitting in front of the television , dressed in a plain white vest rather than one of his talkative T-shirts , why assume that he is being a slob ? |
| 44 | What had the woman meant about ‘ the girls ’ — surely Luke had n't brought more than one of his conquests here together ? |
| 45 | Will there be more than one of you cooking or working in the kitchen at any one time ? |
| 46 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 47 | I turned my head and saw a huge cat , three times larger than one of our cows . |
| 48 | More than one of our officers sprained his wrist on that job . |
| 49 | For some time , and particularly since NBS Services Ltd. was acquired , we have been conscious of the fact that there are certain activities which are similar in nature in more than one of our companies . |
| 50 | It would suit us better than one of our own mobile sardine cans . ’ |
| 51 | Cos one of them brought bananas in . |
| 52 | No , cos one of them kept going up to London for the we week and then went back home at the weekends and he had this lovely house ! |
| 53 | Cos one of my sisters |
| 54 | cos one of my fish swim really near the bottom , on the gravel |
| 55 | Like two poker players , each raises its level of hormonal bidding , until one of them feels outbid , and folds . |
| 56 | For some considerable time the stone provided a ceremonial seat for the inauguration of High Kings of Ireland until one of them , Fergus MacErc , became ruler of the new kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll , and took the stone with him to the fortress of Dunadd . |
| 57 | The opening scenes are particularly memorable : primitive apes ( men in monkey suits ) struggle against a rival tribe of predators in front of an open , harsh background ( projected ) until one of them ‘ invents ’ the first weapon in striking an enemy with a large bone , which , thrown up spiralling into the air , ‘ becomes ’ in the next shot a spacecraft four million years on in time . |
| 58 | All they could do was watch and wait , trigger off several fuses and watch them burn until one of them , hopefully , ran its full course . |
| 59 | They had battled with it until one of them killed it . |
| 60 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ replied the nurses , ‘ you 're not even three fingers dilated , ’ until one of them , a girl with a lot of red hair , opened Wendy 's legs and looked and screeched , ‘ But I can see the head ! |