Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] one [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that there is one man who helped to carry Saint Winifred 's reliquary to the cart for Ramsey , in all innocence , being asked by a habited brother of the Order . |
| 2 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |
| 3 | And what we wan na say to the General Secretary and the C E C that during the talks that there is one thing which must be maintained , and that is the structure of the G M B. The T & g comes to join us on our terms . |
| 4 | All these images make the claim that there is one God who is understood in a variety of ways by the world 's different religious traditions . |
| 5 | Mohammed is seen as someone who swept away the pagan polytheism of Mecca in favour of the idea that there is one God who is totally separate from the world . |
| 6 | Jeremiah and Isaiah never tire of reminding the people that there is one God who can save his people , and that all other refuges are in vain . |
| 7 | However , I feel that there is one line which virtually sums Mycetes up , and that is when he says : ‘ Yet insufficient to express the same ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Except that there 's one thing I find puzzling . |
| 9 | To cut a long story short , he concluded that most of these effects were ambiguous but that there was one effect which could , in principle , be quite powerful in raising the level of real expenditure and income : for a constant nominal stock of money , a fall in the price level will raise the real money stock which may , in turn , exert significant downward pressure on the rate of interest . |
| 10 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 11 | The report does not insist that it is one man who has committed all the offences , but the implication is that is the case . |
| 12 | Yes erm listening to the punters I mean I know loads of people come up here and there 's one thing which all of them tend to say and that this place is threatening . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've read a few books in my time , and there 's one thing I 've learned … there 's a difference between education and being well read . ’ |
| 14 | Oh and there 's one thing I did n't tell you : Moscow Centre 's on to the pattern . |
| 15 | and there was one baby who was climbing out of the cot . |
| 16 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 17 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 18 | And there was one place which was called creepy . |
| 19 | If there is one factor which has determined the nature of the office it is that , in theory , it is auditing the executive on behalf of the legislature . |
| 20 | IF THERE is one person who clearly has no doubt that the South African government shall release Nelson Mandela , it is Nelson Mandela himself . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman will know — although the House may not — that , if there is one person who greets the news of his demobilisation with a particular sense of grief , it is his old pair . |
| 22 | ‘ If there is one company we would hope to emulate , it is DK . ’ |
| 23 | In March 1990 , the Secretary of State for Wales vehemently denounced rates and said : ’ If there is one thing which unites Conservatives everywhere it is our deep and abiding abhorrence of the rating system . |
| 24 | Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice . |
| 25 | Now if there is one thing I absolutely can not stand , it is snoring . |
| 26 | ‘ If there is one thing I definitely need at this moment , it is a commentary on Italian traffic from a girl from the American midwest . ’ |
| 27 | If there is one image which biographical criticism has projected powerfully , it is that of Tolkien the philistine , hater of literary mainstreams . |
| 28 | If there is one quality her painting lacks more than anything , it is pain , pumping blood — that kinship with the earth that even the greatest ecstasies must keep to sustain their flight … |
| 29 | Well , if there 's one aircraft which can still evoke memories of those Cold War days this is it . |
| 30 | But if there 's one job we all know we could handle , given a double-breasted suit and a few handy clichés , it 's that of football manager . |