Example sentences of "[verb] of one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 2 | Gley 's chambers were built of one of the new metals created through the exigencies of war . |
| 3 | Discussing the seeding of players in the men 's singles at Wimbledon one year , peter West remarked of one of the hopefuls , ‘ Jimmy Connors 's wife is expecting a baby and there was some doubt about his entry . ’ |
| 4 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |
| 5 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 6 | The normal debenture , however , is very different from a single mortgage of land. , It generally consists of one of a series of securities ranking pari passu with each other . |
| 7 | Our hack at the train buffet overheard recently just what the workers at Dounreay , where Britain 's work on fast breeder reactors is based , thought of one of the UKAEA 's director 's . |
| 8 | erm The tombs bear witness to this , there 's two governors actually , Sir William Pendon who died of one of the epidemics in Oxford and Sir Henry Gage who was another governor , who was only governor for a month because he was killed in a scuffle near Abingdon . |
| 9 | He speaks of one of the ‘ largest and compleatest works in the kingdom for making iron and steel wire ’ , much of which found its way around the county in the form of ‘ cards ’ for the woollen industry . |
| 10 | King Henry II was wily , ambitious , and possessed of one of the keenest minds in Christendom . |
| 11 | Think of one of the cheerful ones . |
| 12 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 13 | Remains of one of the shot down Zeros near Pearl Harbor . |
| 14 | When we lose the ability to cry , our body is deprived of one of the great protectors against stress . |
| 15 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 16 | The woman discovers their bodies after the husband has departed again , and calls in a " " porter " " to remove and dispose of one of the bodies for a rich sum . |
| 17 | When photos were published of one of the workers who fought the blaze , he was described half jokingly as ‘ Atomic Stan ’ , and ‘ the most radioactive man in Britain ’ . |