Example sentences of "in one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the White House Chief of Staff , John Sununu , has started an inquiry into the administration 's performance in one of its first efforts in foreign policy crisis management . |
| 2 | Further , in the attempted containment of transvestism ( Love 's Cure ) masculinity and sexual difference are put in question in a very specific way : in the containment of one hostile knowledge another is inadvertently produced ; suppression of an ( in ) subordinate deviance discloses other , equally disturbing deviations at the heart of the dominant ; erotic deviations whose repression is a condition of domination in one of its most important forms : homosocial male bonding . |
| 3 | That was the boss ; all the other crews are already on task and D Squadron needs a new gearbox in one of its Chieftains — it 's about six miles from here so they 're sending out a truck with the spares and we 're to meet it there . ’ |
| 4 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 5 | Deciding to cut my losses , I fled Ulm and promptly got lost in one of its industrial suburbs . |
| 6 | In one of its strongest statements yet , the Foreign Office said : ‘ We also deplore the actions of the federal army which , instead of separating the warring factions and restoring peace , has openly sided with the Serbian terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | Look round the lively and colourful capital of Argostoli and dine out in one of its many tavernas . |
| 8 | It is a surprising place to find the main indoor athletics stadium in Britain , housing a 200 metre indoor synthetic track and , for the biggest events , enough seating for 5000 people , in one of its great hangars . |
| 9 | We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality |
| 10 | In the 1890s it declined in one of its strongholds , Kurunagala district . |
| 11 | Walker Greenbank , the wall-covering group , has taken its former auditor , Arthur Young , to court over the firm 's failure to detect an alleged fraud in one of its subsidiaries . |
| 12 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 13 | Stanley Humphrey was an engine fitter in the period when the RAF was in one of its most interesting periods . |
| 14 | The department was guided by good practice already developed in one of its home during the 1980s . |
| 15 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 16 | It is only on the basis of such a model that the government , which considers one of its basic functions to be the management of the economy , can predict what the effect will be of a change in one of its policies . |
| 17 | Moreover , it was understood to be a crime which was entirely foreign to the national character , and in one of its earliest references to the affair The Times ( 7 November 1862 ) registered the compulsive feeling that the new crime was ‘ un-British ’ : ‘ When the outrages first commenced , it was doubted whether the crime was not of foreign importation … but the ruffians who have been arrested arc of pure English breed . ’ |
| 18 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 19 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 20 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 21 | It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations . |
| 22 | In one of its recent advertisements , BellSouth captures the new story . |
| 23 | Kinsbourne initially based his suggestion on the result of an experiment he carried out using a square with a small gap in one of its sides . |
| 24 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |
| 25 | In one of its aspects , sub-central government constitutes an extension of central government and administration , the latter 's antennae or tentacles . |
| 26 | Formally the approval of the Treasury is required , probably together with the support of the Cabinet in one of its priority-setting exercises , where the minister is involved in competition with colleagues who have alternative expenditure aspirations . |
| 27 | A converted Dutch barge , the Nova Inn is a fittingly maritime place to stay in one of its 12 cabins , or to eat out at ( ) . |
| 28 | Longman is to expand and invest in one of its key areas of strength and current activity , Asia Pacific . |
| 29 | Eventually , a distinction came Aarau 's way which resulted in one of its most striking thoroughfares . |
| 30 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |