Example sentences of "the [adj] one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby continued : ‘ As for this Harley business , we now know that there has been a closer relationship between Martinez and Jefferson over the years than the normal one of agent and manufacturer . |
| 2 | ‘ Gran , I 'm not the normal one of the family after all ; I 'm a witch 's daughter , I can travel to other worlds and make magic . ’ |
| 3 | He shook his head , but she found the delicious-looking cakes too irresistible , and just had to sample the gooiest-looking one of all . |
| 4 | The treaty Lomé IV lays down that the two groups of countries should co-operate also in cultural matters , both in the wide , anthropological , sense of the term and the narrow one of the arts . |
| 5 | One of the most significant areas in which secularisation operated was the indefinable one of shared responsibility , human and divine , for life and death ; this is studied in chapter two . |
| 6 | Turner has demonstrated that so far as cotton weavers were concerned , associational persistence can be reconciled with only sporadic incidence , since the true foundation was the durable one of the habit of association within a " community " of workers , or indeed , in the case of the manufacturing village , within an occupational community . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly , the essentially non-problematic process was aided by the fact that the Six had been able to agree upon the basic objectives in advance — the economic objective of a common market and the political one of some kind of supranational authority — as it was also by the fact that the discussions were mainly conducted by experienced bureaucrats in closed sessions . |
| 8 | The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance . |
| 9 | It was not naturally as smart a match as the failed one of the summer , but the reactions were all the same gratifying . |
| 10 | The top coin has a representation of the Emperor Constantius II ( AD 337–61 ) , the lower one of Anastasius ( AD 491–518 ) . |
| 11 | Within three years of introducing its scheme , and as schools gain more experience of delegation , each LEA must aim to reduce this limit to the lower one of 7 per cent . |
| 12 | Still , if you are going to admit the influence of another composer , it might as well be the greatest one of your day . |
| 13 | More often than not the principal criterion used in practice for weeding of all types of collections is the subjective one of ‘ the librarian 's own judgement ’ , based upon a knowledge of the users and of the subject literatures covered by the collection . |
| 14 | The French army had become relatively small and manageable ; it was now comprised of picked men ; its leaders , too , were the best available ; and its task was the specific one of taking the initiative and winning back the areas of land ceded by the terms agreed at Brétigny — and more , if possible . |
| 15 | Maybe that is why he has to interweave the stationary activity of basket-weaving with the strenuous one of rickshaw pulling . |
| 16 | When he decided he had finished he drew back with a reluctant groan , his eyes watchful , devoid of any feeling other than the insatiable one of sexual hunger . |
| 17 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 18 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 19 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 20 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 21 | It is surprising to find that the soft-bodied jellyfish have any fossil record at all , but in fact they have the longest one of the phylum . |
| 22 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 23 | The first is the historical one of advancing the understanding of South Africa 's political and military relationship with European colonial powers in the critical period following the accession to power of the National party . |
| 24 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 25 | Okay so it 's F , it 's the top one of the four . |
| 26 | The process is thus not the long-known one of the production of harmonics by non-linearity . |
| 27 | That stone was the capital one of the circle which surrounded what now remains . ’ |
| 28 | The second aim is the theoretical one of using new evidence on this ‘ White Entente ’ ( for such it was ) to confront the plausible claim that ententes have the advantages of alliances without their disadvantages . |
| 29 | The main philosophical argument I come across that has a bearing on the Devil is the old one of dualism . |
| 30 | But it must stand alongside other factors , the principal one of which is that the date of his first review should , in my view , relate strictly to the judicial view of the tariff . |