Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
| 2 | It is enough if the dependent conditional ( 1 ) , or perhaps one of the variants ( 1a ) or ( lb ) , is true of the two things . |
| 3 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 4 | And this 'll either be the head teacher of a school , or perhaps one of the governors of the school . |
| 5 | If ownership of a majority of the shares of the employing company , whether the employer is a holding company or only one of a number of subsidiaries in a group of companies , falls into new hands , the employees of that company come under the control of the new owners of the company , whether they consent to that development or not . |
| 6 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 7 | Or even one of the popular 1950s names like Linda , Janice and Susan , which immediately date the owners . |
| 8 | A pilgrim , whether bound for Rome , or Jerusalem , or simply one of the many shrines in England , would have expected to see the relics of the saints . |
| 9 | Visiting a friend at the university or maybe one of the towns like Abingdon ? |
| 10 | Difficult situations often arise where a conveyancer is acting for seller and buyer ( eg they are both long-established clients of your firm ) where either one of the parties instructs you then to renegotiate the price of the transaction . |
| 11 | In playing the role in which the ruler is seen not only to be ruler but also responsive to the general life of his subjects , Napoleon III may be credited with being the founder , or certainly one of the founders , of the concept of ‘ modern monarchy ’ . |
| 12 | He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death . |
| 13 | He stood for a while in the darkness , hoping that perhaps one of the nuns , Lady Amelia or Dame Agatha , would follow him out , but no one came . |
| 14 | Note that only one of the two DNA strands is transcribed ; the other is there just to facilitate replication , as was illustrated in Figure 3 . |
| 15 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 16 | According to Mary Frances Lyon , who discovered that only one of the X chromosomes is active in female mammals , it is completely random which particular X chromosome is inactivated in any given cell , so an individual female is made up of clones of cells in which either the maternal or paternal X chromosome has been switched off . |
| 17 | This is because it assumes that only one of the candidates in each position is correct , so the assignment of scores to words has to be delayed until the maximum for any given position is known . |
| 18 | However , the kinetics of m 5 C-formation ( Fig. 2D ) , as well as the fact that only 1 mole of m 5 C was formed per mole of tRNA favour that only one of the two putative sites in yeast tRNA Asp becomes modified in X.laevis oocytes . |
| 19 | However , the ampersand acts as an ‘ or ’ qualifier , meaning that only one of the elements specified , the one which matches first , will be acted on . |
| 20 | ‘ Thank you , sir , ’ said Charlie , aware for the first time that only one of the colonel 's eyes actually moved . |
| 21 | Although not one of the foremost Cheshire gentry in terms of wealth or landholdings , Grosvenor became the most influential local governor in the area of his main estate , immediately to the south of Chester . |
| 22 | Gabriel , although normally one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth , had suddenly become aggressive . |
| 23 | Ironists reflect with pleasure that nevertheless one of the great literary biographies of the century has subsequently been written about Proust . |
| 24 | The dispute over who should pay for running costs has meant that not one of the 750 long-term units planned in London has been built . |
| 25 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 26 | His quick eye also registered with some interest that not one of the ladies present , as far as he could judge , belonged to his mother 's circle . |
| 27 | Yesterday , while watching the thrilling final of the Midland Bank Championships at Brighton , I was very interested to hear Barry Davis ' comment on the fact that not one of the world 's top 10 players had participated in the event with the notable exception of one Steffi Graf . |
| 28 | And why is it that not one of the seven demands of the women 's movement specifically addresses questions of housing ? |
| 29 | The mention of these two blockbuster names ought not to imply , however , that the collecting of contemporary fiction is necessarily allied to the bestseller lists : booksellers may rest assured that not one of the mega-thousands of Jilly Coopers , Jeffrey Archers , Wilbur Smiths or Catherine Cooksons will go to a collector , while a surprising number of Dennis Potters , Alan Bennetts , Kingsley Amises , William Boyds , Seamus Heaneys and Alan Ayckbourns will . |
| 30 | Commentators pointed out that not one of the 27 bills presented by Bielecki 's government since taking office in January had yet been passed . |