Example sentences of "one [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | This encourages decisive footsteering since as one rail is depressed the other is raised . |
| 2 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
| 3 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 4 | One field is left fallow each year and the other two divided into strips which are shared out among the farmers . |
| 5 | We have reached the occasion where an individual receiving publicity in one field is thought to be an expert , or at least a saleable item , in all others . |
| 6 | Fortunately there is a surprising repetitiveness about human nature : a good deal that has worked in one field is quite likely to work in another field . |
| 7 | One difficulty is its unfunded pension obligations , which the PBGC says amount to some $800m . |
| 8 | One difficulty is that prising apart the imposition of duties from other effects of the exercise of authority is far from straightforward . |
| 9 | One difficulty is the lack of formal education in book provision methods , which especially affects librarians in their first or second posts . |
| 10 | One difficulty is how the courts ascertain the policy of any Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | One difficulty is that the approach is not sufficiently general : many words do not in any straightforward way denote classes of potential referents ( consider air , some , usually , however ) . |
| 12 | One difficulty is that , like geriatric medicine , rehabilitation medicine in the past has been regarded within the profession as a ‘ soft option ’ bringing limited benefits , being unexciting and scarcely medicine . |
| 13 | One difficulty is the agonising 12-week wait before a test can be carried out . |
| 14 | One difficulty is caused by Pascal 's lack of the facility available in ALGOL68 and Ada whereby a constant can be assigned the value of an expression . |
| 15 | One difficulty is that whereas in London , London English is felt to be appropriate in nearly all situations , Creole is appropriate only in some of these . |
| 16 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
| 17 | One difficulty is the amount of imputation as described above ; this is particularly a problem for the study of inner city areas and such topics as social deprivation , where the information is likely to be more conjectural . |
| 18 | But there is no a priori reason to expect that any one paradigm is perfect or even the best available . |
| 19 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 20 | The conclusion is inescapable that in a fair proportion of these fatal accidents where one driver is over the limit , the ’ drunk ’ driver is the innocent party . |
| 21 | Accordingly , where the broker is a member and is required by the exchange 's rules to deal only as principal ( as on LIFFE ) , the contract for the client is in effect split in two : one contract is between the broker and the market ( another member ) , and the other — a matching contract — between the broker and the client . |
| 22 | One instance is where a debtor , anticipating insolvency , seeks to discharge one of his debts in priority to the others . |
| 23 | From Fig.8.7(a) the variation of v/c over one orbit is seen to have an amplitude of order 10 -3 , and so the SR time dilation of the period is also of order 10 -6 . |
| 24 | One warrior is having a fit . |
| 25 | The form of the verb in one sentence can limit the choice of the verb form in the next , and we may be justified in saying that a verb form in one sentence is ‘ wrong ’ , or at least ‘ unlikely ’ , because it does not fit with the form in another . |
| 26 | Moreover , he does not use them as precise logical connectives but only to indicate that ‘ one sentence is connected with another without reference to the nature of the connection ’ ( ibid. : 247 ) . |
| 27 | We may not be very interested in tracing the history of collisions a given atom has with other atoms , as one atom is very much like another . |
| 28 | First , it appears that there may be no truth as to how many times more pleasant or painful one experience is than another . |
| 29 | In many ways the service to and from Aberystwyth is a good one and trains now leave for Shrewsbury and Birmingham at 07.00 , 08.45 , 11.00 , 13.10 , 15.21 , 17.25 and 19.22 , and for passengers going to London only one change is needed . |
| 30 | One stand is missing the love hearts and lace . |