Example sentences of "one [adj] [noun sg] that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the nerves in her chest and stomach tightened into one solid knot that seemed about to burst out of her throat . |
| 2 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 3 | There is a view that is as old , probably , as the human race , and certainly as old as Homer and the ancient Greeks , that there is one ethical structure that represents right for men : a composite of manly virtues , such as courage , endurance , physical stamina , wiliness and political judgement , and a corresponding but complementary conception of what is right for women , womanly virtue being seen as a mixture of timidity , tenderness , compliance , docility , softness , innocence and domestic competence . |
| 4 | Katell Keineg is a marvellous talent , sadly misplaced by her last record company , someone who can and should be an exception to all the Irish acts who make one dowdy album that does n't sell . |
| 5 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 6 | One small thing that does n't fit … ’ |
| 7 | have n't erm er and erm you know some things you , you know there 's the sort of one particular textbook that covers most of what we talk about in the classes , some things there is n't |
| 8 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 9 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |