Example sentences of "one of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This illustrates one of the problems of judges making policy decisions . |
| 2 | One of the beauties of Springs is that you dictate the pace . |
| 3 | He 's taken one of the bags of coins , perhaps worth three or four hundred guineas . ’ |
| 4 | In so far as meaning is a problem for semiotics it is not a question of discovering ‘ hidden meanings ’ but one of the structure of signifiers that communicate a meaning accepted by participants . |
| 5 | Once again , if you really are determined to get fitter , go to a good bookshop and choose any one of the myriad of books on the subject ( see page 120 ) . |
| 6 | It was one of the bagful of jokes that friends had given Alan , 50 , of Henley , Oxon , as he sails around Africa on a four-month trek . |
| 7 | I took one of the suitcases of clothes I had brought with me and went to Newhaven to get the boat for Dieppe . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The child is father to the man ’ said one of the tenders of cradles in a pause in his song . |
| 9 | He gave a ten-year prison sentence for this as opposed to two years for one of the rapes of women . |
| 10 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 11 | In Christianity , the problems in the emotional life of humanity are handled by one of the company of brothers offering himself as a sacrificial victim to the father , to redeem the brothers for the murder of the father — the original sin which haunts the brothers . |
| 12 | Or slapped her gently , until a scent that was perfumed with tea sang through the real air to her and she identified one of the sea of aches as thirst . |
| 13 | After the usual pleasantries he took Mark along one of the labyrinth of corridors flanked with busts of the famous , and stopped before a heavy oak-panelled door attended by a liveried usher . |
| 14 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 15 | The point is that the process of modernization and differentiation is also one of the autonomization of fields . |
| 16 | By the second half of the 1960s the machinery of local democracy was being presented in official reports as one of the sources of problems for the effective operation of local government . |
| 17 | Some existing treatments of anaphor resolution ignore this problem by only considering one of the sources of candidates ; for example , the algorithms of Sidner ( 1979a ) and the work of Grosz , Joshi & Weinstein ( 1983 ) seem to treat only intersentential anaphora , while much work in theoretical linguistics does not venture beyond sentence boundaries . |
| 18 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 19 | Whilst one of the rights of owners is to use the land which they own as they please , there are restrictions on their use of land due to the rights of others . |
| 20 | with Frude 's assertion that one of the advantages of hackers is that they generally become very proficient programmers . |
| 21 | Even if ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are true , then this book may yet turn out to be one of the minority of books on philosophy that is not boring . |
| 22 | Furber was also one of the Society of Gardeners led by Miller which published the first part of its Catalogus Plantarum in 1730 , but by then he had issued two catalogues of his own , one of English and foreign trees , the other of ‘ the Best and Choicest Fruit Trees ’ ( both in 1727 ) . |
| 23 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 24 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 25 | You take one of the pairs of handcuffs from the drawer and go into the bathroom , pointing the gun at the figure in the tub . |
| 26 | So , with the brave words , ‘ I 'm going there and you ca n't stop me ; I know my rights ’ , he attempted to join one of the pairs of pickets . |
| 27 | But occasionally , a credit transaction may fall partly into both sides of one of the pairs of classifications . |
| 28 | Coursework is an accelerated course in New Testament Greek to an advanced level with an examination in June , two exegeses on selected New Testament texts , a possible further two essays on one of the range of subjects mentioned in ( 1 ) above , and an exegetically and linguistically based dissertation on a New Testament passage of central interest to the candidate . |
| 29 | He believed that they could so perfectly fit this classification that one of the functions of leys was for ritual or teaching purposes . |
| 30 | Thus , one of the functions of parents sending their children to elite schools is for them to be identified as more able . |