Example sentences of "be one [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers ranged over mauve condolences and a group of ‘ Hurray , Hurray , You 're One Today ! ’ until they came to one he liked , a carpet of spring flowers beside Lake Windermere , and the writing within plain and tasteful . |
| 2 | We 're one up on the men 's team . |
| 3 | There 's been one pretty definite go at her , and you can ask Alec Reynolds if you doubt that — if you 've got a ouija board , that is . ’ |
| 4 | He does not seem to have been one universally approved , for a man known as the Acquisitor , and who may have acquired the estates of tax defaulters , probably had enemies , and Dr Keynes has suggested that the retirement from court of the king 's uncle Ordulf and the prominent West Saxon Æthelmær occurred because they could not countenance his growing influence . |
| 5 | There has n't been one yet . |
| 6 | But here 's the rub — there had been one here before ! |
| 7 | The accusation of going in too many directions at once , of increasing bureaucracy in the Ministry and of mixing the essential with the marginal has been one frequently voiced against Jack Lang . |
| 8 | So , I think we 're no nearer forward to having a reason for the explosion , but erm there has n't been one since . |
| 9 | The Darlington result has always been one keenly watched by national political pundits it is traditionally a barometer of the way in which the nation generally is set to swing . |
| 10 | The scoreline was unkind to Leeds , who should have been one up through Rod Wallace but were one down when poor defending let Sheron in . |
| 11 | Bullock had been one up after 15 holes but Davies pulled back the deficit at the 16th and held on to finish the match all square . |
| 12 | And they could have easily been one up at that particular time which was a minute . |
| 13 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 14 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 15 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 16 | On the other hand , there has been one almost universal factor behind the emergence of the extreme right . |
| 17 | Croydon 391 is believed to have been one so treated . |
| 18 | ‘ And if that is the case , this will have been one more long , expensive waste of time . ’ |
| 19 | The first priority for most unemployed people is obtaining a job : and training or retraining courses are one seemingly obvious route to this end . |
| 20 | But now we are one again he 'll expect his own personal maid , cook and bottle-washer . |
| 21 | As Schotland argues , even if abuses are one off , or ‘ episodic ’ , it does not necessarily follow that they should not receive regulatory attention . |
| 22 | Respect all animals and remember you are one too . |
| 23 | In reality , I feel I 'm one up of I do n't come out in tears . ’ |
| 24 | No I 'm one above you . |
| 25 | Jan Indian-striped my cheek with lipstick and hopped on to the platform , turning to shout : ‘ They 'll think I 'm one too , Monica ! |
| 26 | There must be one somewhere . |
| 27 | If an adze was used , smaller trees might have been more practical so that one finished square might be one round long . |
| 28 | It may not be a legal partnership , but it ought to be one ethically . |
| 29 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 30 | Most of this housing took the form of Tyneside flats , an unusual type of construction in which what appears to be one reasonably large terrace house of a kind very commonly built in industrial cities in Northern England in the late nineteenth century , is in fact two flats . |