Example sentences of "[prep] one [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way contradictory objectives become self-defeating because as we move towards one objective we move away from the other . |
| 2 | To attack a new chair for the conduct of one organisation which has just come into being and to attack him as chair-designate for another organisation which has not yet come into being , seems extremely odd and unwise to me . |
| 3 | Harry thinks that this fruit house is almost unique ; that is , he knows of one other which started off the same but has since been altered . |
| 4 | With the exception of one firm which has only males , they have been obliged to employ women on keyboards , because when they advertised for operators , no men came forward . |
| 5 | I know of one person who failed completely the first time round , & did very well the second ; and Lord Rothschild mentions an eminent scientist , who got one ‘ C ’ the first time & 7 ( yes , seven ) A's the second , but he was a genius — or a freak . |
| 6 | I know of one evangelist who puts aside one day a month for prayer and retreat at a Roman Catholic monastery where he receives much support . |
| 7 | A few miles away is the ancient town of Lewes with its imposing Norman Castle and Anne of Cleves House ( the former home of one wife who did n't lose her head to Henry VIII ) . |
| 8 | At the end of one week she worked out the average number of ticks per square to give the average number of tantrums per day . |
| 9 | All the data about one student is collected into one bank which changes dynamically with his learning achievements ( and failures ) . |
| 10 | The two nuclei — of sperm and ovum — move together and fuse into one nucleus which holds both sets of chromosomes , 46 in all , with two sex chromosomes . |
| 11 | Or memory might take on a rose-coloured tinge — as with one officer who had commonly thumped prostitutes : |
| 12 | Because Lawren and Bess had an enviable collection of classical LPs I took it as an accomplishment to present them with one work they had not yet discovered but came to enjoy — it was the ‘ Eight Little Symphonies ’ by William Boyce ( 1710–1779 ) recorded in London by the Boyd Neel Chamber Orchestra — a delightful work in the manner of George Frederick Handel . |
| 13 | He went with one truck which drove on to the town of Travnik where refugees were coming under shell-fire . |
| 14 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 15 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |
| 16 | With one hand she cleared away from under her the sharp stones of the unpaved road . |
| 17 | With one sergeant I had then , I used to make up stories about keeping an eye on thieves if he did n't find me at the points . |
| 18 | ‘ With one eye you look out at the world ; with the other you look in at yourself ’ , was Modigliani 's explanation . |
| 19 | In one mouthful she ate as much as twelve English farmers could eat in a whole meal . |
| 20 | This was vividly illustrated in one household we visited where the bedroom was so damp that clothes stored in the cupboard had to be removed daily and spread on a clothes-horse in front of the fire to dry out . |
| 21 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 22 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 23 | In one year they launched more new models than their leading competitors put together . |
| 24 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 25 | In one way we do n't have anything in common at all . |
| 26 | That 's what I mean about when he sort of ran off that night I thought , in one way I was pissed off with him but in one way I thought well at least he can you know ? |
| 27 | In one way you feel better knowing that we played well , the other way li ‘ l ol ’ Victor springs to the fore of the mind time and again . |
| 28 | In one respect ours falls particularly short of perfection : it gives very little idea of Nietzsche 's style . |
| 29 | Until one day it went away . |
| 30 | Until one day he decided enough was enough . |