Example sentences of "one [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is alarming that one quarter of women in this country still lie in the sun without protecting their skin . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The gurgling male , alternately bowing down and rearing up , chased the female from one row of tiles to the next . |
| 34 | Holes in each card representing one row of tufts in the carpet , instruct the Jacquard loom which colour to weave . |
| 35 | They do not try to prove causal relationships but they do try to understand how events bring about change from one state of affairs to another . |
| 36 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 37 | I said you put one lot of checks in here and I 'll put a lot of checks in the other . |
| 38 | So we 've looked , we 've looked at one lot of brackets times another lot , which is the most difficult thing to do really , and you can do that , no problem . |
| 39 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 40 | Because of the way that erm the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years , to a system where mixed ability was introduced year by year from the first to the third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school — one lot of pupils in their streamed classes , and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes — and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and in the mixed ability classes . |
| 41 | Because of the way that the school changed over from having a system of streaming in its first three years to a system where mixed ability is introduced year by year from the first to third year , I was able to follow two groups of pupils through the school , one lot of pupils in their streamed classes and then another lot following them on in their mixed ability classes , and try and discover something about the differences in their experience of school in the two different modes , in the streamed and the mixed ability classes . |
| 42 | It is one application of psychometrics to man-power planning ( see previous chapter ) . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Rick tried to ensure their involvement by inviting each of them to contribute one unit of activities to the year 's scheme of work . |
| 45 | Your army may include one unit of Outriders from the Engineer 's School at Altdorf . |
| 46 | Me : Coffee and one helping of chips for lunch . |
| 47 | ‘ OALD 's reputation passes from one generation of students to the next , and also seems to carry authority in a way its rivals do not , perhaps because of its family resemblance to the Oxford English Dictionary . ’ |
| 48 | This process has continued from one generation of Homoeopaths to the next so that instead of the new discoveries sweeping away all the previous ideas , as commonly occurs in many ‘ scientific ’ studies , the knowledge of remedies , known as Materia Medica , is continually being added to , developed and refined . |
| 49 | We can not afford to overlook the cruel irony enacted by the racist regime of freeing one generation of fighters from the sixties and seventies , while proceeding to serve long sentences on a new generation of fighters of the eighties . |
| 50 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 51 | One way of disguising them is to launder the sum through different accounts at the club , showing in one set of accounts as a private loan to the lotteries account , in the next under the Supporters ' Club account … the list can go on and on . |
| 52 | One set of reactions to a traumatic experience are termed ‘ positive ’ , a non-evaluative term , and consist of compulsions to repeat an action or thought , and fixation at an early stage of development . |
| 53 | Mr Farquhar said : ‘ Over recent times many have spoken of one set of killers as a mirrored image of the other . |
| 54 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 55 | I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness . |
| 56 | 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 ) . |
| 57 | The social worker finds the client applies one set of rules to herself and a very different set to other people . |
| 58 | Such reasons provide just one set of limitations against the wider adoption of forms of NFI , an issue we discuss in chapter 5 . |
| 59 | Exercise programmes often tend to exercise one set of muscles at the expense of another set . |
| 60 | So you 're really sounding a note of warning over translating or transferring one set of norms from one culture to another without being really rather cautious about it . |