Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 2 | I attended my father 's prep school where I was one of the worst-behaved pupils , constantly talking after lights-out and fooling around in class . |
| 3 | In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section . |
| 4 | A quick reminder , many people will know , but a quick reminder and er , if you 've perhaps just come back from holiday yourself , or you 're one of our new listeners , you may not know so I 'll tell you , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call , this very programme , will be breaking new ground at the end of next month . |
| 5 | It wo n't work when you go one nil up , or you 're one nil down , you have to hold something in reserve ; mid-field players have to come back , the forwards have to come back and hold tight , you do n't just go charging up looking to get another goal , or trying to equalize , but that 's the basic error . |
| 6 | ‘ He or she is one of very many . |
| 7 | Where there is one chargepayer in the property a community charge reduction will be given if the 1991–92 community charge in your area is higher than your 1989–90 rates plus £52 . |
| 8 | Hanging equipment on hooks and pegs , where there is one hook or peg for each piece of equipment to be stored in this way — perhaps labelled with a picture symbol . |
| 9 | The chairman predicts that a more unified Europe will result in the kind of financial federation we see in the US , where there is one main centre in the time zone — New York ( read London ) and several satellite centres ( Frankfurt , Paris , Amsterdam ) . |
| 10 | And something else I learnt in Saint-Jean is that where there is one superior restaurant there will be other good ones , not rivals so much as supporters ; this in my experience is a particularly good town to dine in . |
| 11 | Lord Sands in the Reid 's Trustees case at p529 stated : The dicta which might be founded upon … as indicating that a trust may be regarded as a mere agency or conduit pipe , are strictly limited to the case where the circumstances are similar , viz. , where there is one beneficiary and the estate is already realised and duly invested . |
| 12 | And , naturally , where there is one legal opinion another , usually , can be found . |
| 13 | The free arrangement of boards — where there 's one card slotted into the motherboard with three expansion slots on it — is also awkward . |
| 14 | Breeding is confined to Ashdown Forest , where up to six pairs have bred recently , and one area of north-west Sussex , where there are one or two pairs . |
| 15 | There are pitch problems , too , in the Schübler Chorales , where there are one of two moments of insecurity . |
| 16 | Where there was one mid-week housegroup there are now six and we have a common goal of raising this number to ten such groups by the end of the year . |
| 17 | Where there was one British Leyland until February this year , there are now four companies — including Leyland Daf Trucks in Thame , which remains responsible for sales and marketing of trucks in Great Britain . |
| 18 | ‘ Either school dinners have really gone downhill , or there 's one hell of a big parrot on the loose round here . ’ |
| 19 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 20 | I know er , down at Corfe Junction or a one road across or one another across or there was one road going to Wimborne , one going to Broadstone , up road and down road . |
| 21 | Either Gibson know something we do n't , or they 're one fret short of an octave … |
| 22 | It was the quest for a greater managerial role which took Ian in 1989 to the York based confectionery giant , where he is one of two in-house solicitors . |
| 23 | He felt he was involved in some royal masque , a diversion , a play where he was one of the mummers , blundering around in the dark to the silent laughter of an audience who always stayed in the shadows . |
| 24 | ( In 1840 , he was to devise an improved method of lead separation , applying this at the Roughtongill Mine in the Caldbeck Fells , where he was one of the proprietors . ) |
| 25 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 26 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 27 | And , or it 's one of the two lifts they had and they 've made it er toylands . |
| 28 | because it 's either one more or it 's one less . |
| 29 | ATTENTIVE READERS of this column will know already that I am one of this country 's leading authorities on ‘ celebrology ’ — this is the study of the role of the celebrity in general elections . |
| 30 | I should explain here that I am one of two brothers — and that my elder brother , Leonard , was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy . |