Example sentences of "[coord] one [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 For each trait ( for example , the trait of being tall or short , or of being smooth or wrinkled ) , each individual receives two genes , one inherited from each parent : thus an individual might receive two genes for tallness , or two for shortness , or one of each .
2 Your children can learn Maths , English and Sciences or one of many Foreign languages taught by shareware programs .
3 Nothing , anyway , that helpfully addresses an important conundrum , often mentioned , seldom explored , and so far unsolved : when death occurs suddenly , and coronary atherosclerosis is found at necropsy ( and nothing else that is evidently fatal ) , the certified cause of death will be given as ‘ coronary artery disease ’ — or one of many synonyms — with no regard paid to the customary scientific standards of proving the relation between effect and cause .
4 Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between .
5 I 'm not a scrounger or one of these social misfits .
6 The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience .
7 All we will say is you have a policy with us , you now have H I V , we will pay out eventually , because you , you 're going to die , you 'll probably die as they are then , or one of these other illnesses will be diagnosed , we just wo n't pay out on permanent disability .
8 So I reckon we ought to get Nan or one of these contributors to say , to point out that the
9 Or one of these .
10 I think the sorry , Bill , the erm confusion arises because we 're talking about warranties and insurance and most people buying a car , getting extended insurance or one of these insurance schemes , will assume it 's warranty , but there 's no protection for somebody issuing a warranty going out of business .
11 Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics .
12 It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics .
13 I think he was singing ‘ The Sun Machine Is Coming Down ’ or one of those .
14 ‘ I want to be a long distance lorry driver or one of those dispatch riders in London , that would be quite exciting .
15 Sir Matt Busby is 70 , but whose view on football would you prefer — his or one of those younger managers , all tracksuit and gold bangles ?
16 ‘ When I use it live , though , I tend to beef it up with either an ordinary 4x12 or one of those Hartke cabinets with the aluminium speakers .
17 Look around any good camping emporium and you 'll find many worthwhile things to buy for kiting , not least the silicone protective spray-can to revive worn or weather beaten ripstop ; or one of those hemispherical shelters to have on the field as a base in which to store your gear .
18 Or one of those things happened .
19 Never write out a cheque in pencil or one of those pens that can be rubbed out .
20 Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry .
21 And somebody mentioned earlier , I suspect it was Colin over at the back , or one of those
22 Claude Rains or Sydney Greenstreet , or one of those fancy-pants villains .
23 Miss Broome — Ianthe — the vicar 's sister-in-law — Prudence , Jenny , was it ? — or one of those fashionable names that often seemed so unsuitable for their bearers — and two men whom he had not seen before .
24 There 's always a for sale sign out outside one of those or one of those .
25 You see if I would go back , if I were doing it , to Times Heavy Titling or one of those do it all caps forget that .
26 Co-expression of human Myc with Max1 , Max2 or one of several Max deletion derivatives ( Fig. 1 ) in yeast cells leads to transcriptional activation from a CACGTG-CYC1-LacZ reporter , whereas no activation is observed with either Myc or Max alone ( Fig. 2 a , lanes b ) .
27 What 's a hundred time twenty six , a hundred times twenty seven , sorry a hundred and one times all of these .
28 Despite its ease of access this remains a wild place , and one of many moods .
29 I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory
30 He is quite definitely one of the most important jazz figures to emerge this side of the Atlantic and one of that handful of European musicians to achieve ‘ World Class ’ status .
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