Example sentences of "that [adv] one " in BNC.

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1 He suggested instead that perhaps one of the two white men to see her alive last may have had something to do with her death .
2 At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage .
3 He stood for a while in the darkness , hoping that perhaps one of the nuns , Lady Amelia or Dame Agatha , would follow him out , but no one came .
4 It also occurred to me today that perhaps one of us in the Glasgow Office ought to be trained in First Aid .
5 so erm er th the thought , the thought did occur to me that perhaps one of these times he 's gon na actually go beyond just like talking , and perhaps touching somebody .
6 It is generally agreed that only one wing-tip should be held while the glider is being moved about .
7 The remarkable feature of the Mark 3 is the fact that only one basic bodyshell was produced so that standard-class coaches have exactly the same external dimensions , window spacing and appearance as the first class .
8 The latest figures collated by Women against Rape show that only one in twelve women who are raped report the offence to police .
9 But within the first interpretation of the term , many authors have emphasized how the increase in the number of legal statutes makes the law impractical to apply in every case , so that Sheehe has calculated that only one offence in every 7,600 is detected ( see Dix and Layzell 1983 : 7 ) .
10 Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ?
11 Eliot wrote of the huge scale of the Russian Revolution and of the huge scale of its violence , pointing out that only one result could justify such huge and terrible expense : ‘ Such a cataclysm is justified if it produces something really new : Un [ sic ] oasis d'horreur dans un désert d'ennui ’ .
12 A Gallup Poll taken in the last three weeks of 1959 found that only one person in fourteen listed among their major worries the international situation .
13 The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war .
14 Note that only one of the two DNA strands is transcribed ; the other is there just to facilitate replication , as was illustrated in Figure 3 .
15 THE Health Education Authority is spending thousand of pounds on an anti-Aids campaign aimed at Asians — although its figures show that only one per cent of victims are Asian or Oriental .
16 Labour is outraged that only one third of defendants on trial for rape are convicted .
17 Obviously , I do not know the answer , nor do I trust the American claim that only one in 10 therapists over there has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded .
18 The figure of 49% would have been much higher but for the fact that only one in ten of farmers in Powys and Speyside saw this as a constraint on their future development .
19 But Christianity is the only religion that makes it clear that only one god exists .
20 Not only does it command the following of only one god , but it also makes it clear that only one god exists .
21 At this dinner Faulkner claimed that only one in ten of Derry 's unemployed had any previous industrial experience ; the DUAC carried out a survey at the Bishop Street Labour Exchange which , they claimed , showed that 50 per cent of those interviewed did have such experience .
22 Welfare is seen as a drug of addiction but studies of long-term welfare recipients have found that only one in five daughters of dependent mothers themselves become dependent .
23 A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents .
24 According to Mary Frances Lyon , who discovered that only one of the X chromosomes is active in female mammals , it is completely random which particular X chromosome is inactivated in any given cell , so an individual female is made up of clones of cells in which either the maternal or paternal X chromosome has been switched off .
25 Linford was running both the 100 metres and 200 metres , aiming for a sprint double that only one man had previously achieved , the East German Eugene Ray , ten years earlier .
26 It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action .
27 A muzzled ferret can be used with a transmitter but this means that only one ferret can be introduced into the burrow system at any one time , unless transmitters emitting different signals are used to avoid confusion .
28 Note that only one stereo channel is used — it does n't matter which .
29 In the latter case , after pivoting , implicit basic variable x J ( or σ J ) becomes non-basic and the row in which its partner is basic , which may be the pivot or another row , is dropped , to ensure that only one of ( U J and x J is retained in the next tableau .
30 Lord Justice Scott said that , although on the face of the inspector 's covering letter the assessments appeared cumulative , it was clear from the individual assessments and the terms of the letter that only one sum would be assessed on whichever basis was ultimately appropriate .
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