Example sentences of "to one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the father 's sentence was changed to one of life imprisonment . |
| 2 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 3 | In the second book , a photograph is spoken of which ‘ shows the pulling down of a monument to one of the Shahs ( father or son ) in Teheran or some other Iranian city . |
| 4 | Families with children tend to be restricted , for their main holiday , to one of the three main school breaks . |
| 5 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 6 | ‘ Watch out , Inspector , if you can talk like that in response to one of my brainwaves we 'll have you working here . ’ |
| 7 | I took the flowers over to one of the sinks and put them in it . |
| 8 | We have seen to one of them . |
| 9 | In another room adjacent to one of his two bathrooms lies some weight-lifting equipment : the needs of the mind are counterbalanced by those of the body . |
| 10 | It is ‘ a non-obligatory ’ ceremony , an unreal description to one of Leonard Cohen 's background . |
| 11 | He went in to speak to one of the tellers . |
| 12 | Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness , it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi ( eastern European ) Judaism , who followed the Palestinian traditions ( as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud ) : Israel ben Eliezer ( Leonard 's spiritual forebear , after whom he was named ) — an 18th century Pole , the founder of the Hasidic movement ; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard , his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein . |
| 13 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 14 | I could have gone to one of the libraries or museums , art galleries … |
| 15 | Properties will be allocated to one of seven bands based on their value . |
| 16 | The high–capacity wagons would be worked to one of the refineries at Thames Haven . |
| 17 | I RECENTLY spoke to one of your employees on the telephone about the Watney 's Party Seven . |
| 18 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 19 | TableCurve can calculate the data 's best fit to one of its equations , or the plot of the data can be previewed to decide whether any data needs to be edited or excluded , or weighting factors applied prior to processing . |
| 20 | So a driver could listen , for example , to one of the BBC national networks , while the set automatically switches temporarily to a local station making a traffic announcement . |
| 21 | This is true , and points to one of the central problems in institutionalized literary pedagogy . |
| 22 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 23 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 24 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 25 | And Richard North looks at current provisions for the destruction of PCBs , and at the history of British involvement in a rather uncomfortable growth industry The security guard at the entrance to one of Britain 's mightiest hazardous waste disposal plants pressed a button and the gate opened . |
| 26 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 27 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 28 | We accompanied Pamela Scott-Wexo , a director of Living Memories , on a visit to one of her clients , the Royal Star and Garter Home for disabled servicemen at Richmond , Surrey , to see what her research would turn up . |
| 29 | But the exigencies of operatic life did not really appeal to one of his perfectionist standards . |
| 30 | But Jones is a snappy player in every sense , and set the tone for an afternoon of petulant silliness with a Gatting-like finger-wagging retort to one of Keith Griffiths 's decisions . |