Example sentences of "one of the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last September , in an effort to reconcile the genuine nature conservation aspirations of various wildlife groups with the Port 's need for expansion , the Harbour Commissioners reached agreement with the major nature conservation bodies in the Province to preserve one of the Kinnegar lagoons as a bird sanctuary along with approximately 70 acres of land around the North end of Belfast City Airport 's runway for development as a nature park . |
| 2 | There was only David , sitting at ease in one of the basket chairs , in front of the tea tray . |
| 3 | 60 ) , which because of its association with one of the saltire mosaics ( Brown et . |
| 4 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 5 | He hooked one of the bentwood chairs into position with his foot and sat on it astride , arms resting on the back . |
| 6 | Sara was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs by the desk in the bare little office ; a WPC , her black-stockinged legs tucked under her chair , sat by the door . |
| 7 | She was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs , knees together , her hands wedged between them . |
| 8 | In the winter months , Neale works as a P-E consultant , and recently went on one of the Grid courses that P-E now regularly provides . |
| 9 | The five-arched masonry bridge across the Tweed linking England and Scotland at Coldstream was built in 1763 by John Smeaton , builder of one of the Eddystone lighthouses ( see Plymouth ) . |
| 10 | Market segmentation is one of the refinement processes of marketing . |
| 11 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 12 | A routine grass-cutting job for one of the Zetters pools company turned into something more exciting . |
| 13 | The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference . |
| 14 | The conversation of MicroGeneSys to virtues of denatured immunogens is one of the Damascene proportions . |
| 15 | He was keen to encourage her and prepared to see her move on into one of the operating companies . |
| 16 | I like the , there was , there was a , er big bill board in town , I du n no if you saw it and it says , I think it had Labour right , in really big letters , and they said who 's really behind me , it was a Conservative one , they said who 's really behind them and in it every one there 's like a T U C leader one of the union leaders |
| 17 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 18 | ‘ The bad news , ’ went on Luke , tucking a strap into a buckle , ‘ is that one of today 's umpires , Jaime Calavessi , bumped one of the O'Brien boys wrong last week . |
| 19 | One of the H pylori negative patients was on maintenance haemodialysis and eight were on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis . |
| 20 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 21 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 22 | She saw an old man digging in one of the vegetable gardens , but he looked cross and unfriendly , so she walked on . |
| 23 | During that week she became more friendly with Ben , who was often digging in one of the vegetable gardens . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know , I thought I saw yams on one of the vegetable stalls as we were coming along , ’ said Lady Selvedge . |
| 25 | Then one day , during rehearsal , John turned to one of the horn players and said , ‘ Okay , play freeform here … ’ and I thought , ‘ Freeform ? |
| 26 | One of the keyboard concertos , K.246 in C major , was for the 26-year-old Countess Antonia Lutzow who , judging by the intricacy of the work , must have been a talented performer . |
| 27 | One of the sex manuals we swapped at school |
| 28 | One of the machine tenders used a piece of wood to knock down a catch on a door in the base of the copper sheathing around the bottom of the barrel . |
| 29 | He was holding one of the machine pistols . |
| 30 | One of the machine guns had live ammunition attached to it . |