Example sentences of "one of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 2 | He hooked one of the bentwood chairs into position with his foot and sat on it astride , arms resting on the back . |
| 3 | Sara was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs by the desk in the bare little office ; a WPC , her black-stockinged legs tucked under her chair , sat by the door . |
| 4 | Market segmentation is one of the refinement processes of marketing . |
| 5 | The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference . |
| 6 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 7 | One of the principle reasons for the development of anti-school attitudes amongst these young people is the separation and ranking of students according to a multiple set of criteria which make up the normative , academically oriented value system of the school . |
| 8 | One of the principle aims of the LPU was to ensure that Wages Councils met at least once a year ( many had not done so , despite the rate of inflation at the time ) . |
| 9 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 10 | In the Catholic school context one of the principle tasks of the teacher is to help pupils know , understand and appreciate the spiritual and religious dimension of life as expressed in the Catholic faith tradition . |
| 11 | One of the principle ways of promoting the interests of one , as opposed to another , is to gain influence over public policy decisions . |
| 12 | One of the talking points of the year so far has been the coming of desktop publishing . |
| 13 | The players include three guitarists , Bill Frisell , Vernon Reid and Robert Quine , who rage and soar far over the gutters of grunge-making ‘ Nightmare ’ , among many other things , one of the guitar albums of the year . |
| 14 | While just behind it , standing still and staring towards Minch 's cage , the shape that had seemed to loom so large , as if it was one of the standing stones of which Minch had been speaking , became the shape of a man . |
| 15 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 16 | Unconverted barns were one of the success stories of the property boom years , with near-ruins selling for fantastic sums . |
| 17 | Despite these criticisms , many were in agreement that Whiterock College was indeed one of the success stories of Making Belfast Work . |
| 18 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 19 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 20 | He lit one of the gas mantles above the fireplace . |
| 21 | Two doors down , the gaol sergeant was copying some fresh prisoner details onto one of the name boards from a charge sheet . |
| 22 | An example is one of the strip buildings at Sea Mills , which contained a number of ovens in the front room . |
| 23 | The future of the Scottish grass-court championships , one of the warm-up events for Wimbledon , is in doubt after the Bank of Scotland yesterday withdrew its sponsorship because of ‘ soaring costs ’ . |
| 24 | One of the dancing girls with flame-red hair , skin as soft and white as silk and large dark eyes , had caught my fancy . |
| 25 | It danced in consort with whatever power it was that provoked her thought , and so energetically at times that , when a day 's work was over , she felt as weary as one of the dancing princesses from a fairy-tale , exhausted by their demon partners . |
| 26 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 27 | This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986–87 . |
| 28 | I got involved with one of the filing clerks in the office . |
| 29 | One of the army officers at the next table called across to my companion , ‘ Businessman ? ’ |
| 30 | Alternatively these techniques could be applied to every one of the candidate strings for each word position identified as a potential error ( again it should be noted that this assumes that errors can be identified , which may be doubtful for our system ) . |