Example sentences of "one [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Maasai Mara and Serengeti are really one reserve divided by the Kenya/Tanzania border , and between them house thousands of plains game and their following of lion , cheetah and leopard . |
| 32 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 33 | One branch asked for a dispensation . |
| 34 | From this side of town , the footpath led across the fields to the bank of the stream where it divided , one branch going to the new council estate and Sewingbury , the other to the centre of Kingsmarkham High Street , at the Kingsbrook bridge . |
| 35 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 36 | Oldham 's one hope came with a dubious second half penalty award when Colin Hendry was ruled to have pushed Ian Olney . |
| 37 | Suggested cures were legion , and one correspondent wrote to the newspaper concerning the closure of the graveyards at Spa Fields , St Botolph Bishopsgate and St Thomas , Golden Lane , suggesting that the ground in each case be covered in quicklime . |
| 38 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 39 | Again and again he painted Jeanne in what one writer described as a series of ‘ love letters ’ . |
| 40 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 41 | In Division One Windsor lost to the League champions Ballyearl 1–4 ( 5–17 ) . |
| 42 | Life for you right now is a crossroads : one direction points to the safe , secure and conventional , the other to the road less travelled , signifying the unexplored . |
| 43 | There would be direct investment both inward and outward as different multinationals arrange their operations on a global basis instead of direct investment only in one direction resulting from the overall balance of the economy . |
| 44 | You could draw an imaginary diagonal line across your design and match the resulting two triangles , or you could have more than one aperture cut into a mount and create a symmetrical design to fill each one . |
| 45 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 46 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 47 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 48 | In the basic system described here the switching angle effective for one stem depends on the average motor speed over the previous step . |
| 49 | It talks about one budget covering for the two centres and it also talks about two heads of centres which is more practicable and more rational than any other s situation that would have been if the merger decision would have stayed . |
| 50 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 51 | One agent occurring in the antarctic species Trematomus borchgrevinki ( Figure 6.3 ) has been identified as a glycoprotein of molecular weight up to 21 500 , which appears to bind itself to ice crystals and inhibit their growth ( Lin et al . , |
| 52 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 53 | One punter surfaced in the ship-canal |
| 54 | One piece read to the rally referred to the local effect of the militarization of Europe during World War II when an aerodrome was built locally , and was written by Polly Devlin , a journalist originally from the area . |
| 55 | But luckily there was only a c only one car stopped at the top . |
| 56 | One soldier lay on the ground like a blazing torch . |
| 57 | ‘ I saw one soldier standing in the road . |
| 58 | The plot failed when one soldier peeped inside the box of Quality Street chocolates two days later and discovered 2lbs of semtex explosive . |
| 59 | One episode ends with the proud man broken , humiliated and in tears . |
| 60 | The single ‘ Teethgrinder ’ was born out of a programme called American Conversations , which in one episode dealt with a girl who ground her teeth down to her gums in her sleep , while ‘ Nurse ’ also features ‘ Accelerator ’ , the tale of a joyrider which was written after seeing a police chase in Manchester — and later recalled images from the film The Driver . |