Example sentences of "[noun] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johns is one of five current full internationals poised to take on the host country in their opening group game as Ireland contest one of the major sporting titles in the world , albeit in the abridged version . |
| 2 | In other words one of the traditional defences of private property which states that an optimal allocation of resources results from owners ( who it is assumed control their property ) pursuing their own self-interest could be invoked to justify insisting that the company was run in the interests of the shareholders alone . |
| 3 | The cops , a glance one to the other ; at the smelling — he had messed himself — wailing Rubberneck , his small defiant ( and very dangerous ) sister . |
| 4 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 5 | I have left till last what may well be considered by book-collectors one of the most charming fields of ephemera collecting — that of the chapbook , so called from the chapman or pedlar in whose pack so many of these small publications found their way through the shires of England . |
| 6 | On the mathematics side one of the most serious charges , parallel to the lack of interest in the writing of English , is that some of the skills such as the careful construction of graphs and geometric figures are no longer considered important by students . |
| 7 | Over the months one of the D ring rivets at the flex point of the boot has started to dig into my foot , so although the padding inside the boot is OK , it could be better . |
| 8 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 9 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Personally I should find the endless cups of tea one of the more trying aspects of church life , ’ said Gervase . |
| 11 | The class is then excused and the entries return to the ring one at a time in numerical order to be judged individually . |
| 12 | Cadney one of the few bright spots . |
| 13 | This means that the machine must know which stitch of the pattern to start knitting at , in order for stitch one of the pattern to fall at the N1 cam ( stitch one being the stitch at the left of the pattern on the mylar sheet ) . |
| 14 | And Jeff aims to use Green cotton , made without the vast amount of pesticides and fertilisers that make ‘ the clothing industry one of the biggest single polluters on this planet ’ . |
| 15 | In the entertainments industry one of the organizations to which we spoke pointed out that , precisely because the positions they are seeking to fill around Christmas are advertised as seasonal or temporary positions of a rather limited duration , they are normally filled by people with little interest in staying . |
| 16 | Collectively these various banking centres make the ECM one of the largest money markets in the world . |
| 17 | Under cross-examination from Alan Gore , a barrister representing one of the dead drivers , he said that as a result one of the options had been amended . |
| 18 | It consists of two rectangular halls one above the other , giving a lower and upper church . |
| 19 | 1 Peel one of the oranges very carefully , using a vegetable parer or sharp knife — do n't include the pith ; you need only the orange part . |
| 20 | Variables were entered into or removed from the logistic regression equation one at a time . |
| 21 | She 'd worked as a prostitute long enough to know she 'd survive , but she did n't fancy six cocks one after the other without respite . |
| 22 | According to a shamefaced Treasurer of the India Club : ‘ One night last week I attended three parties one after the other . |
| 23 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 24 | The bacterium is difficult to grow and it may be necessary to biopsy one of the lesions to come to the diagnosis . |
| 25 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 26 | Erm the imbalance is reflected in , in many ways but in one way is in traffic using the M twenty five , for example the Western section of the M twenty five from the M three , M four , M forty to the M one over the , the Western end where I live has approximately a hundred and sixty thousand vehicles a day which is e twice as many as the North Eastern side . |
| 27 | A run of operated exploration successes has made LASMO one of the largest operators in Colombia and increased the significance of the country to LASMO 's international portfolio . |
| 28 | Production in 1992 averaged 107,000 boepd , making LASMO one of the largest oil and gas producers in the country . |
| 29 | To ‘ mind the baby ’ for a neighbour when the mother is out , or to wheel one in a pram on washing-day and do any necessary errand , will probably mean a square meal or ‘ a mash of tea ’ and some coppers , as well as discarded garments , if the neighbour 's husband is in good work . ’ |
| 30 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |