Example sentences of "of one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others . |
| 2 | Of all the products in the world , it is hard to think of one with which English soccer has less need to be associated than lager . |
| 3 | In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members . |
| 4 | The history and origins of Qawaali music through the songs of one of its most acclaimed exponents . |
| 5 | The struggles of history are not , therefore , part of an external dialectic resolvable in principle by the overthrow of one of its polarities . |
| 6 | SARAH LOOSEMORE 's award of a place at Oxford University means that the British game may again have to contend with the loss of one of its major assets . |
| 7 | An omnibus company was held liable for the act of one of its drivers , who overturned a rival omnibus while racing with it and obstructing it , although directions had been issued to the driver forbidding such conduct . |
| 8 | The debate on commercial television remains one of the clearest examples of the Establishment in action in defence of one of its dearest illusions , namely , that it knows best what is good for other people . |
| 9 | Owners Abroad had a nervous session , analysts spotting the unexplained depreciation of one of its aircraft tucked away in its newly-issued report and accounts . |
| 10 | The idea of an ‘ internal world ’ is not however new in ethology ; it was indeed a prime preoccupation of one of its key founding fathers , Jacob von Uexküll , who through studies of the perceptual apparatus of a variety of species deduced the nature of the experiential worlds to which they gave rise . |
| 11 | The place is experienced as an accumulation of its pasts , a wreck like those whose flotsam litters its shores and provides the walls and furniture and windows of one of its villages , described by the English travellers Joseph and Henry Bullar in 1841 and revisited by Tabucchi 140 years later ( 29 ) . |
| 12 | This book had been preceded by the publication of one of its chapters , in 1924 , in The Communist Academy Herald . |
| 13 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 14 | Similarly , Sauguet 's cat probably thought that his owner needed help , and rushed over to lick the hands from which the sounds seemed to be coming , as a way of comforting him — just as a mother cat would rush across to lick the fur of one of its kittens if the young animal appeared to be in distress . |
| 15 | The male spider 's penis is found on the end of one of its legs . |
| 16 | AMERICA ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf yesterday as Iraq threatened revenge over the shooting down of one of its warplanes . |
| 17 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 18 | Comanecj 's dramatic flight to America just weeks before the revolution robbed Romania of one of its few remaining internationally known citizens and further encouraged the stories about Nicu 's behaviour . |
| 19 | That poem opens with the funeral of the ancestor of one of its characters — Scyld , the king of the Danes , who according to legend came drifting to land as a baby , naked on a wooden shield . |
| 20 | THE NatWest bank last night offered a £25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men who kidnapped the elderly mother of one of its managers . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that his untimely death robbed British aviation of one of its most distinguished names . |
| 22 | It is also the home of one of its best-known exports — Kendal mint cake . |
| 23 | Left A spadefoot toad falls foul of one of its predators — the hognose snake . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , breaking apart like a toppling chimneystack , its body collapsed and felled another , which threw up an arm as it went down , as if thinking to save itself by grabbing hold of one of its remaining upright companions . |
| 25 | THE SOUTH Devon Railway saw the return of one of its prodigal sons last week with the arrival back on SDR metals of BR Class 4MT 2-6-4 Standard Tank No. 80064 on Thursday , August 20 , writes DICK WOOD . |
| 26 | Under this view the powerful influence of one of its most active supporters could not escape my notice . ’ |
| 27 | Operating margins rose to 6.8% from 3.2% last time which , even after adjustments for the withdraawl of one of its broadcasting products from the market last year , indicated an ‘ encouragingly positive ’ underlying trend according to chairman David Mann . |
| 28 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 29 | IBM Corp is said to be going to relieve the Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment . |
| 30 | Farnell took the business of one of its trading companies , changed the name and sold off its ‘ considerable corporation tax ’ to an unnamed buyer . |