Example sentences of "[prep] one [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grabbed hold of one case of files and pushed it over . |
| 2 | The standard bond dissociation enthalpy is the enthalpy change that accompanies the breaking of one mole of bonds with the molecules and resulting fragments being in their standard states at 298 K and a pressure of one atmosphere . |
| 3 | In the case of one supplier of primates , this failure has been acknowledged by the UK Home Office . |
| 4 | To use Greenwood and Young 's terminology , it was the ‘ ghettoisation ’ of one class of women , a reiteration of the division between ‘ normal ’ and ‘ deviant ’ and the embodiment of this division in an Act of Parliament . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not act under pressure of one group of citizens , ’ Mr Adamec said in a televised address , referring to the Civic Forum group which has led resistance to the Communist-dominated government he announced five days ago . |
| 6 | As Tynyanov puts it , ‘ Since a system is not a free interplay of equal elements but presupposes the foregrounding of one group of elements ( ‘ a dominant ’ ) and the deformation of others , a work becomes literature and acquires its literary function through just this dominant' ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 34 ) . |
| 7 | It will be obvious to the reader that the boundaries drawn and phraseology used above are just those of one group of workers . |
| 8 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 9 | Yet in 1840 it was Joseph Sturge , having emerged as the leading figure of one faction of abolitionists , who guided Clarkson to and from the platform ; Haydon 's picture represented an exclusion from full recognition in the movement of some elements , especially women , on ideological grounds , and in 1843 some abolitionists refused to attend the Convention , implicitly denying Sturge 's BFASS the right to claim the antislavery heritage . |
| 10 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |
| 11 | Where money is particularly tight , some couples will start married life in a spare room at the home of one set of parents — usually the brides . |
| 12 | He concluded that satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the job do not come from the presence or absence of one set of factors . |
| 13 | Mr Farquhar said : ‘ Over recent times many have spoken of one set of killers as a mirrored image of the other . |
| 14 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 15 | The only possible answer is that Anselm was not a bargainer chaffering the half-acceptance of one set of principles against the half-acceptance of another . |
| 16 | On the other , there could be two more or less independent processes occurring in parallel , such that there were transient changes in the electrical properties and responsiveness of one set of neurons which could ‘ code for ’ the memory for a few minutes before gradually fading away . |
| 17 | As Harris ( 1972 ) has written in his analysis of British conservatism , ‘ the aura of Conservatism must remain ambiguous , for intellectual clarity — that is , the clear expression of one set of interests before all others — is the enemy of cooperation between diverse groups , ( pp. 13–14 ) . |
| 18 | The fingers of one hand were tapping frenziedly against the palm of the other , as if all the excitement in his body had to be expressed through the movements of one set of digits . |
| 19 | Genesis where the one says , now all you continue to be of one language and of one set of words |
| 20 | That is to say , the crests of one set of waves may coincide with the troughs of the other set . |
| 21 | Further efforts were made to strengthen the defences at this time by the despatch of one flight of Hurricanes from 274 Squadron in North Africa . |
| 22 | But as court orders were taken out against one list of protesters , banning them from taking part , a new team would take over . |
| 23 | The Scottish stand-off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half-wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) . |
| 24 | It 's just across the road from the bookshop , down a little alley ; about eight hundred square feet in three rooms , up one flight of stairs . ’ |
| 25 | A cautious Mrs Gillian Shephard , the new Employment Secretary , said yesterday that too much should not be read into one set of figures before adding that they and a series of other favourable statistics may offer ‘ glimmers of hope ’ on the jobless front . |
| 26 | This is the electric charge associated with one mole of electrons or one mole of singly charged ions ( see chapter 10 ) . |
| 27 | Compliance with one set of rules or standards does not ensure compliance with the other . |
| 28 | By providing sentencers with one set of criteria relating to the circumstances of the offence in question , and a different range of criteria taking into account relevant characteristics of the offender , the guide-lines operate rather in the manner of a road mileage chart , enabling the appropriate , or ‘ presumptive ’ , penalty to be simply ‘ read off ’ from the matrix supplied . |
| 29 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 30 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |