Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] one of [art] " in BNC.

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1 In this general context , handheld media are increasingly offering the same utilities which are helping to build the electronic information market globally , together with portability , an ingredient new to electronic media but for long one of the most cherished advantages of the printed word .
2 Few teachers are appointed for only one of the three tasks and even if their hands are full with teaching or with a senior teacher 's responsibilities or a large clutch of pastoral duties in their early days , they will know from the head what kind of organization they are joining .
3 With a majority of only one of the elected seats in the legislature , the government was more vulnerable than at any time in the past .
4 It should perhaps be pointed out before going on to the next set of examples to be discussed that most of the uses found with have admit of only one of the two interpretations given above .
5 Then , outside , in an indication of just one of the unusual qualities of the growing East German opposition , they chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and sang the ‘ Internationale ’ .
6 The Doctor was touched by the General 's concern for the life of just one of the least important members of his force .
7 Writing , it 's true , is n't thought of as one of the problems of British cinema .
8 Curves which are monotonic and contain only one bend can be thought of as one of the four quadrants of a circle .
9 Ironically , some schools of discourse analysis — often thought of as one of the newest disciplines of language study — employ terms from classical rhetoric , one of the oldest .
10 S F Nadel ( 1903-1956 ) was author of five distinguished books and a number of learned papers , and at the height of his career was thought of as one of the rising stars of British social anthropology .
11 Aguirre , previously thought of as one of the President 's most loyal officers , described it as " unfair and unjust " and stated that a leader who was incapable of " making a just and proper decision over a simple matter such as appointments can not be expected to make correct decisions about the complex affairs of state " .
12 Even in Germany — which , hitherto , has been generally thought of as one of the safest markets — export losses through bad debt has risen by 300 per cent .
13 Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence .
14 Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’
15 Labour Councillors in have crippled Social Services , have reneged on their promises to the people of when one of the biggest lies we 've seen on any political papers in was that they would defend and not close elderly persons homes .
16 The committee concluded its investigation in February 1991 , finding substantial evidence of improper conduct against only one of the five , Democrat Alan Cranston [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ] .
17 For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles .
18 The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good .
19 With only one of the phases excited the rotor moves to the phase equilibrium position , where the torque is zero and , from Fig. 4.14(b) , the rate of change of flux linkages is also zero .
20 The protein interacts with only one of the DNA strands and based on the fact that the complementary strand competes for binding it would appear to have little affinity for the double stranded form of the oligonucleotide .
21 However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments ( p 108 ) .
22 However , the Inland Revenue could seek to recover the tax due by summary judgment under only one of the alternative assessments , since to do otherwise would be vexatious .
23 ‘ Well , our friend is planning to spend over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds with just one of the Sundays . ’
24 In the UK , virtually all of the LFA is designated under just one of the three Articles available under the Directive — Article 3(4) .
25 Seb asked the whereabouts of Jacob Brailey , the Cockney gang-boss , a number of times without receiving any coherent reply , when a voice from inside one of the tents boomed , ‘ Who 's that asking for me ? ’
26 On April 5 and 6 , a 7,000-strong peace demonstration in Sarajevo was fired on by snipers from inside one of the capital 's hotels , which was then stormed by demonstrators .
27 In only one of a number of retaliatory attacks in various Turkish towns , the extreme left Dev Sol organization claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus in Istanbul on March 24 in which two employees of the National Intelligence Agency were killed ; the statement linked the attack with the Kurdish issue .
28 Content is referred to explicitly in only one of the three and is assessed " incidentally " in another .
29 However , in only one of the 179 single-candidate constituencies did the candidate fail to win the required 50 per cent in first round voting .
30 Hiatus hernia was absent in only one of the nine patients with Barrett 's oesophagus .
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