Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders .
2 Used to be one about
3 Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth .
4 The choice here may in a sense be one between knowing more and knowing less .
5 ‘ A partnership between local and central Government on inner city policy must be one between partners who believe in attracting private enterprise and capital through a constructive attitude to the private sector , low rates , sensible planning and the pursuit of excellence in education , housing and many other essential services .
6 ‘ Nothing is more remarkable ’ , wrote Wellesley , ‘ than the apathy of the people who have taken neither side of the question but look on the quarrel as to be one between the army and the king . ’
7 Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side .
8 Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality .
9 The contrary argument is that because the full amount remains due , remission of liability has not been secured , and the charge should be one under s.2(1) ( b ) .
10 You ca n't be one without it .
11 Those who suppose that a millennium is a millennium is a millennium will see that the distinction between Owen 's and O'Brien 's to be one without a practical difference ; and put a question-mark against the doctrine on which it stands .
12 It really wants to be one without the roads marked .
13 I would n't mind being a bride , if I could be one without having a husband .
14 PLAYER : It could hardly be one without the other .
15 ‘ Yes , I know , but I thought there might be one off the MD 's office .
16 Of course if a number of horses are being fed in a paddock , their feedbins should be spaced well apart and there should be one for every horse .
17 I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince .
18 She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister .
19 It will undoubtedly be one for public debate , and rightly so .
20 One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail .
21 The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough .
22 There has to be one for you , even if your idea of what is plausible may be more , or less , cautious than mine !
23 Even if there is no minimum on the selling side , there will be one for reinvestment into a trust .
24 So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies .
25 There ought to be one for project video erm we ca n't do that until we can show a book .
26 That entity must be based on consensus and it must be one to which the British people will willingly belong because they appreciate the advantages to which the hon. Member for Chichester has already referred .
27 So even when homophobia is not obviously a projection of repressed desire , being more a hostile response to the intolerably different , even then , the homosexual , through condensed association , may be one on whom is projected the repressed disgust inherent in desire .
28 We have n't had any disasters yet , but there must be one on the way .
29 ‘ There should be one on the table . ’
30 ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’
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