Example sentences of "[adj] for one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fit a new timing belt drive as it is about due for one , set accurately and the problem will hopefully disappear . |
| 2 | We 're about due for one — I might bring you in on it . ’ |
| 3 | but you 've got to you 've got to address both of those schools and ask yourself is it right for one to subsidise another . |
| 4 | Through ceaseless activity and a triumph of will-power , she had by 1987 come as near to success as was possible for one , self-sufficient human being . |
| 5 | ‘ It would not have been possible for one to sit upon the throne alongside a woman one no longer loved and lived with . |
| 6 | Or was it possible for one individual to be in the position of a net ‘ receiver ’ for some considerable time because of an expectation that they would be able to reciprocate at some stage in the future ? |
| 7 | " I would think that to follow your thought in this instance is only possible for one to whom the message of Tristan , in particular , has been revealed . " |
| 8 | But er I knew that it was n't poss always possible for one to be at the branch meeting you see . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that he owed much to Peter Collinson for various introductions and was especially grateful for one who assisted with his son William 's career . |
| 10 | When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's strong for one so young . ’ |
| 12 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 13 | Again , he has been prepared to be physical when the necessity arose while his choice of options has been admirable for one so short of international experience . |
| 14 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 15 | She was a strange little girl , advanced for her age and surprisingly sensible for one afflicted with the symptoms of epilepsy . |
| 16 | Brook , small , breezy and soft-spoken had already been padding among the assembly , shaking hands with a grip curiously flabby for one whose theatrical identity is so startlingly defined . |
| 17 | By Prophete 's own analysis , this was because he would not stoop to intriguing for one on his own account . |
| 18 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 19 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 20 | It can be dangerous for one to stay with his gun while the other returns to the task of retrieving the ferrets that may have emerged in the meantime . |
| 21 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 22 | ‘ For love is something so positive , so strong , so real , ’ he wrote exultantly to Theo , ‘ that it is as impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling as it is to take his own life . ’ |
| 23 | Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 25 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 26 | This is easy for one who sees , since he already possesses a picture of the surface of his own body ; and , on this account , he now , by means of the unchanging local sign , even in the dark , translates each stimulus which he has once seen act on a definite place , to the same place in this picture of the body which is mentally presented before him . ’ |
| 27 | The transition from the Moscow classroom , to Wycombe High School could not — and should not — have been easy for one so young . |
| 28 | ‘ Mere novelty is no proof of value , ’ his daughter had replied , sounding a little too smug for one so young . |
| 29 | ‘ A little large for one , surely , ’ she countered , taking pleasure in turning his own words against him . |
| 30 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |