Example sentences of "one [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach has the advantage of accommodating in one framework the needs of dependent people as well as those of less dependent people . |
| 2 | In one field the soil was arid ; nothing seemed able to grow there but a sort of grass that even sheep disdained , and thistles a hobbled donkey was sampling . |
| 3 | Thus in one field the U- figure may be given a value of 90 per cent as take up is known to be very strong , while in another it is given a value of 25 per cent since only 1 in 4 of such applicants is thought likely to accept . |
| 4 | One difficulty the beginner might find on being asked to prove 1.4.5 is that of deciding exactly what to write down . |
| 5 | One defence the ministry will make is that most trade statistics ignore services . |
| 6 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 7 | In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times . |
| 8 | During one orbit the satellite observes a band of sky half a degree wide . |
| 9 | One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country . |
| 10 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 11 | One afternoon the Dodger and Charley Bates were at home and they started telling Oliver about their lives as thieves . |
| 12 | But providing the rain keeps away there can only be one winner the mighty Zafonic . |
| 13 | For more than one hour the Algerian problem in its relation to the liberation of the African continent was studied . |
| 14 | You g you could get down and just start and with the one hour the blower would go and knock you off . |
| 15 | We we had one hour the other night . |
| 16 | Phase in your sunbathing gradually , starting with just one hour the first day , and increase your tanning time by perhaps an hour a day . |
| 17 | apart from one Reverend the most Reverend Doyle or something and he saw one gunmen and he saw him fire a couple of shots and they told him to piss off out of sort of thing |
| 18 | On one level the Republic often criticises the northern security forces , but it too relies on the RUC : the Garda co-operate with the northern police force and do not , as a matter of policy , deal with either the Army or the UDR . |
| 19 | On one level the sudden and unexpected friendship thrives on little more than mutual back-scratching . |
| 20 | At one level the Ministry of Defence argument about the dollar costs of overseas expenditure was not absurd . |
| 21 | At one level the reasons were not difficult to see : although government initially fulfilled the conditions of the loan , in hiring management and adjusting prices , it later backed out of the commitment . |
| 22 | At one level the answer to this question is deceptively straightforward . |
| 23 | On one level the policy of local agencies evolves in a way that is ‘ disjointed ’ and ‘ incremental ’ and could be seen as the antithesis of responsible party policy-making . |
| 24 | At one level the painting invites pleasure in the abstract patterning created by the triangular shape of the old gun against the tessellated stone floor and wall . |
| 25 | On one level the dilemma is between standards of general and of individualized application . |
| 26 | In fact , on one level the racism has been reversed . |
| 27 | At one level the story is simple . |
| 28 | On one level the analogy is with the commercial world of fashion and beauty — Ronke currently works with a prestigious fashion house and is continually amazed by the vast amounts of money and energy invested in creating the facade of beauty ; ‘ the handbags are about the brevity and the illusion of this — one minute you ‘ re in the spotlight the next you ‘ re in the dark , finished and forgotten . |
| 29 | On one level The Freshman works exceedingly well , its clever-clever script and free-and-easy exploitation of Matthew Broderick and , remarkably , Marlon Brando find ways to make an audience laugh with a slick vengeance . |
| 30 | On one level the social niceties ground on , the minutiae of dress and behaviour observed and chattered over . |