Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [pron] of " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably , then , their major strategy for meeting demand became the long-term one of building enough new capacity to meet the demand placed on the system at the low price levels which enabled them to increase sales while just balancing the books .
2 That 's where I got the other one of that .
3 Humber offered the Corporal one of the armchairs .
4 For many years the response of the Central Authority remained the traditional one of the physical planner : new investment , irrespective of any rate of return required , was determined by predictions of demand made in physical terms with no allowance for the effect of price increases .
5 But further west the picture remained the traditional one of short-lived Russian embassies whose maintenance by their hosts frequently led to embarrassing disputes .
6 The Exeter canal remained the only one of its kind for almost two hundred years , until James Brindley made his first canal for the Duke of Bridgewater in 1760 .
7 Moreover the book alienated the only one of Ramsey 's backers who could stand up to the Cambridge establishment .
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