Example sentences of "one [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1986 British Wildlife Appeal to which Prince Charles and David Attenborough lent their names and which was captioned ‘ Tomorrow is too late ’ quoted the loss of 125,000 miles of hedgerow as one instance of depredations in our countryside since 1945 . |
| 2 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 3 | A number of other graves containing coins have been added to the list since Åberg was writing in 1926 ( Rigold 1975 , pp. 69–70 ; Avent 1975 , p. 6 ; Rigold and Metcalf 1977 ) as well as the one case of coins from a single building at Mucking ( Rigold 1977 ) . |
| 4 | Importantly , one study of births in the USA ( Yerushalmy , 1945 ) showed that still birth ratios are higher not only after short spacing but also after excessively long birth intervals . |
| 5 | In one clutch of eggs from , for example , a giant tortoise , there will be some hatchlings which , because of their genetic constitution , will develop longer necks than others . |
| 6 | One result of this diversion of investment is under-mechanisation and a shortage of labour : almost one half of workers in industry are consigned to unmechanised tasks . |
| 7 | This covers matriculation , tuition and one diet of examinations including examination of a postgraduate thesis or dissertation . |
| 8 | Currently in a six month appointment a house officer may be attached to one team of consultants for three months and then change to a second team . |
| 9 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 10 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 11 | Disney said yesterday it had reached a settlement with one group of contractors for an undisclosed sum . |
| 12 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 13 | One group of houses in Sussex with particular problems was that of the ‘ aliens ’ , foundations of great French houses whose loyalty was suspect during the French wars ; even great foundations , such as Lewes Priory , came under suspicion , having to be relieved of their dues and obedience to the mother house at Cluny . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there is one group of surveys of painting which have a special interest : those which form part of handbooks or , more grandly , treatises on how to paint . |
| 15 | Time and again he split the party , castigating one group of opponents after another — the ‘ Economists ’ , the Mensheviks , the Bogdanovites . |
| 16 | The chapter has focused on one group of women in poverty , scanning the research literature for information on mothers in low-income households . |
| 17 | But , in English of the present day , the word arable in the former phrase is clearly an associative adjective , setting off one group of farmers from others such as pig farmers . |
| 18 | it is against freedom of trade and natural justice to subject one group of solicitors to extra rules because they do not practice in partnership ; |
| 19 | For example , many badger communities use one group of holes for several years , leaving others in the territory to fall into decay , only to uproot and re-open them on a whim . |
| 20 | Contemporary Soviet commentators were reticent on this reference to the Zone but they praised the Non-Aligned for condemning the attempts of ‘ external forces … to aggravate tensions in the region and set one group of countries against the other ‘ and for stressing the need for ’ a comprehensive political solution of the problems of the present tensions in Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 21 | It was mid-morning and many of the apprentices and stall-holders were taking a short rest , albeit some of them were already as drunk as March hares ; one group of apprentices outside The Death 's Head on the corner of Old Fish Street were indulging in a strident belching contest . |
| 22 | It is the only instance in British industrial history when the vast majority of the organized working class have given their industrial , financial and moral support to one group of workers for any length of time . |
| 23 | Changes , such as large scale redundancies , initially involving one group of workers in an area within a large metropolitan region subsequently affect employers and workers in other sectors or other parts of the region . |
| 24 | Such a tactic of isolating one group of workers from the control of technology was tried by another company I visited , which made goods from rubber moulds . |
| 25 | By doing this , ‘ they have helped to set one area and one group of workers against another in the struggle to obtain a higher share of the inadequate number of jobs available . ’ |
| 26 | A change of emphasis merely replaces one group of men by another , as does revolution . |
| 27 | Jumping mechanisms vary considerably from one group of insects to another . |
| 28 | Fuller analysis of the skeletomuscular mechanisms that operate in flight shows that these are complicated and vary appreciably from one group of insects to another . |
| 29 | He really wanted to take that visible demonstration of Christian unity from one group of believers to another . |
| 30 | One by-product of investigations into grammar has been the production of introductory books like Teach Yourself English Grammar , and A University Grammar of English , which provide accounts of most basic aspects of sentence formation . |