Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise we are going to develop two legal systems — one for ordinary people that skimps and a superior one for members of the security forces where money is no object . ’ |
| 2 | Twenty of these places are in rooms fitted with bunk beds : two for eight people and one for four people . |
| 3 | Mr Sheridan was one of 16 people arrested on Monday . |
| 4 | 29 year old Andrew Mannings from Cheltenham was one of 5 people who died in the fire which broke out in converted flats at Hove in Sussex last April . |
| 5 | " was one of four people mentioned by Shakespeare who founded schools . |
| 6 | Ray was one of four people arrested on that day . |
| 7 | One of four people arrested after a jeweller was stabbed in his shop and left fighting for his life has appeared in court charged with robbery . |
| 8 | Fenech accused BOXING : Three-time world champion Jeff Fenech was one of four people accused of assaulting a Sydney shop owner yesterday . |
| 9 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 10 | Guillaume was one of five people charged on Monday after an eight-week police operation . |
| 11 | A BABY ‘ necklaced ’ with burning tyres was one of five people killed in another night of violence in Johannesburg 's black townships , the South African police said yesterday . |
| 12 | Francisco Miranda Branco is one of eight people imprisoned for organising or participating in a peaceful procession to Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili , the capital of East Timor . |
| 13 | On Jan. 25 Diana Turbay Quintero , a journalist and one of eight people held hostage for several months [ see p. 37772 ] by drug traffickers of the Medellín and Calí cartels , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , was fatally wounded , apparently by her captors , when police tried to rescue them . |
| 14 | John Byrne , of Frenchgate , Richmond , will be one of 100 people to be invested in the Order of St John in the Grand Priory Church in London on February 20 . |
| 15 | He was one of many people of mixed race I was to meet in Algeria . |
| 16 | Gladstone was only one of many people whom he persuaded to record — in this case , a message congratulating Edison upon his invention . |
| 17 | Advisors say tMr Kerry is just one of many people under financial stress because they 're behiund with mortgage payments . |
| 18 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 19 | A Republican senator , John Heinz , was one of seven people killed in a plane crash on April 4 . |
| 20 | Mohamed Abbad is one of 31 people tried in May 1984 in Marrakech following demonstrations in January 1984 against price rises and the imposition of an examination fee for the baccalaureate examination . |
| 21 | AIDS victim Ashe , 49 , was one of 96 people arrested on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Equally , an educational technologist can be one of several people : 1 . |
| 23 | ‘ You were one of several people who were probably going to be let go on my recommendation as part of a rationalisation programme , but the manner in which I caused it to happen … |
| 24 | The refugee was one of several people travelling on false documents who , when detained in the UK , asked for asylum not only from their countries of origin but also from Germany . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's one of several people who may be able to help us with our enquiries . ’ |
| 26 | Her friend , Christina Carter — whose sister , Daniella , 15 , was one of three people killed in the blast — required an hour 's surgery . |
| 27 | The man who was killed was one of three people who attacked a crew from the international television news agency , Visnews , 50 yards from the Marines ' post at the airport entrance . |
| 28 | In 1961 he was one of three people who decided to form WWF , to raise funds to protect wildlife throughout the world . |
| 29 | However , on Feb. 12 an inspector of the Indian Intelligence Bureau was one of three people shot dead by secessionist militants in Srinagar , the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state . |
| 30 | One of three people accused of trying to kill a couple by pushing a burning car off a cliff has told a court he was too frightened to intervene . |