Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They see a car coming from the direction they 've been told , and remember , it 's after one in the morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't think why you 're so determined to defend him , ’ she said in the tone of one on the verge of enlightenment . |
| 3 | The seven books of miracles are made up of one on the Glory of the Martyrs , another on the passion and miracles of St Julian of Brioude , four on the miracles of St Martin , and one on the Glory of the Confessors . |
| 4 | This is particularly true where each parish was formerly a cohesive unit , but later amalgamations resulted in the ‘ stalk ’ of one on the side of another . |
| 5 | It appears that there is an effective limit of one on the number of postnominal adjectives permitted . |
| 6 | The only proof of our suspicions is the lack of any chain or evidence of one on the body . |
| 7 | Like all really good recipes , the proportion of one to the other is entirely arbitrary and you could use canned rather than fresh pineapple . |
| 8 | There was an overwhelming case for the State providing a basic pension but less of one for the State providing an additional pension as well . |
| 9 | That it assaults the reputation of one outside the House is an incidental and irrelevant consideration . |
| 10 | Can you think of one off the top of your head very quickly ? |
| 11 | In liquids with larger or irregularly shaped molecules , the deformation is slower as the molecules restrict the easy translation of one past the other . |
| 12 | On this question of construction I was in a judicial minority of one at the end of the first hearing of this appeal . |
| 13 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 14 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 15 | Once you have come to an agreement on an expectation , form it into an objective statement , eg , ‘ We will establish no precedent which caters mainly to the desires of one at the expense of the other ’ . |
| 16 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 17 | In drawing up the relocation and redundancy packages careful consideration needs to be given to the financial implications for employees of one vis-à-vis the other . |
| 18 | Kleiman divided his reader 's attention between an auditory task and a word-judgement task , to investigate the interfering effect of one upon the other . |
| 19 | The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox . |
| 20 | The lower tier would be known as the Board for Local Authority Higher Education , its membership consisting of Christopher Ball as Chairman ; six representatives of local authorities ; six from the DES ; six from institutions , made up of two from the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics , two from the National Association of Teachers of Further and Higher Education , one from the Association of Principals of Colleges , and one from the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes of Higher Education ; and three others , consisting of one from the Trades Union Congress , one from the Council of National Academic Awards , and one jointly from the Business and Technician Education Councils . |
| 21 | It is clear once again , Britain is in a minority of one within the EEC , especially on monetary union . |
| 22 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 23 | There are hints of one in the story of Rahab and the spies that we have already looked at , hints of an attack mounted on the basis of inside information gathered in that dangerous night of pleasure , or of stealthy entry into the city gained by means of Rahab 's treachery . |
| 24 | ‘ Because I am married , you see , mama had my governess explain to me about marriage — of what is expected of one in the marriage bed . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , I only know of one in the whole of the UK . ’ |
| 26 | In the latter group the picture was very similar , a replacement rate of one in the generation following the Black Death , below one in the sixty years before 1437 , and rising above it between then and the end of the century ( 104 , p.204 ) . |
| 27 | This is a specimen of our dressing rooms , but not by far the worst , as I know of one in the North of England where a corner of the floor is submerged in filth and water . |
| 28 | Er a cast copy of one in the Yorkshire Museum again . |
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| 30 | I went past one as the sounds of the seven o'clock service grew from behind the gaping shutters . |