Example sentences of "[prep] one [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ending of one relationship and the beginning of another is a complex matter . |
| 2 | A scientific revolution corresponds to the abandonment of one paradigm and the adoption of a new one , not by an individual scientist only but by the relevant scientific community as a whole . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) to be made at intervals of one year after the provisional grant was made . |
| 4 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 5 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 6 | What changes has the farmer made in recent years to the seven year plan for the use of one field and the application of fertiliser to it ? |
| 7 | Remember the days when a big do was a white dress made by the bride , the luxury of one bridesmaid and a spread of sandwiches in the Co-operative Halls afterwards ? |
| 8 | The best clue to the mens ' identity is a clear trademark on the back of one jacket as the robbers leave . |
| 9 | The best clue to the mens ' identity is a clear trademark on the back of one jacket as the robbers leave . |
| 10 | With the departure of one Secretary and the arrival of another , the office staff — apart of course from the members of the Signet Office — normally changed completely ; not until the early seventeenth century did a permanent bureaucratic organization begin to appear beneath the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | I know of one pub where the licensee gave out cards to the people he wanted to let in , ’ said Coun Cussins . |
| 12 | I know of one pub where an ‘ old timer ’ will grudgingly show you a fine piece of ‘ gold ore ’ that he was lucky enough to find years ago . |
| 13 | WordStar International Inc , Novato , California raised $5.9m in a second private placing of 2.7m units , each of one share and a warrant for a second share at $2.50 expiring 1996 . |
| 14 | The loss of one vehicle and the leading tank 's offensive capability was not enough to cause a full scale withdrawal . |
| 15 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 16 | There was a similar concentration of power in the hands of one person and a similar relaxation of constitutional restraints and accountability in the exercise of it . |
| 17 | Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case : |
| 18 | The Writer is aware of one scheme where the planning brief was ignored by a developer , who as a result achieved an increase in density and was able to submit a substantially higher tender figure than other developers who had conformed to the planning brief . |
| 19 | Restrictions by the Ministry on grant made available for new appointments also meant that vacancies between the resignation of one tutor-organiser and the arrival of a successor could be prolonged . |
| 20 | The whole experience of the pains and startling joys of the hazardous journey becomes for him paradigmatic of the realities of life lived fully from moment to moment , and the teaching of the lama " not the enlightened wisdom of one man but the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " . |
| 21 | Any mother who has to deal with the separation of one child and the divorce of another within a matter of weeks would be upset . |
| 22 | Originally these were jointed with a gasket of tarred hemp between the ‘ spigot ’ ( male end ) of one pipe and the ‘ socket ’ ( female end ) of the next one . |
| 23 | No one is totally of one type or the other . |
| 24 | It does mean that you will have to get either a converter , a lead with a socket of one type and a plug of the other type , or you will need a Y connector. , a socket connected to two plugs . |
| 25 | It follows that my calculations make allowance for two carers , either both being paid workers , or alternatively a combination of one worker and the joint efforts of the parents as a second , as a second worker . |
| 26 | The viability of the Tychonic system makes it impossible to divide the intellectual world-of the early seventeenth century into pro- and anti-Copernicans , still less to countenance the remark of one historian that the English Civil War was fought between Copernicans and Ptolemaics . |
| 27 | The School for Nightingales marked not only the end of one collaboration but the beginning of another , since the cast included , among the ‘ young ladies of the Academy ’ , a dancer using the stage name of Anne de Mohan . |
| 28 | Spread trading involves the simultaneous purchase of one future and the sale of another . |
| 29 | ‘ They can get deep depressions and do not know how to express it , and it can come out in rebellion of one sort or the other , ’ said Anne . |
| 30 | Were the cells circular , there would inevitably be gaps between the walls of one cell and the next . |