Example sentences of "be [adv] one [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there are perhaps one or two who are very , very aware and are making their own life uncomfortable about it , but I think they 're so much in the minority that it 's the other lot that we should be worrying about . |
| 2 | It is known that some of the unicellular organisms in the sea today are only one or two million years old ( very little in geological terms ) , in fact they are probably as young as man himself ! |
| 3 | There are only one or two minor casualties . ’ |
| 4 | There are only one or two quarries in the parish of Swanage still working , the majority being in Langton and Worth . |
| 5 | It might seem naive to assume , as grand unified theories do , that there are only one or two layers of structure in this enormous interval . |
| 6 | Earlier in the 90's , ‘ Virtual Reality ’ came available to the public , and in the whole country there are only one or two places , you can go ; Both in London . |
| 7 | If there are only one or two sedimentological theses in one year , the list compiler may have chosen to combine this category with that for stratigraphy . |
| 8 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
| 9 | And there are generally one or two people who get ill each year after a bite . |
| 10 | ‘ They are generally one and two-bedroom units . |
| 11 | But there are just one or two things I would like to ask you , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 12 | There 're just one or two minor announcements . |
| 13 | It seems to me that there 're just one or two points in which Nigel er needs to respond , so I 'll ask him to do so briefly . |
| 14 | But there are always one or two who would have preferred a colleague to a stranger even if they hated his guts . |
| 15 | Refresher courses are usually one or two day affairs as opposed to a formally planned and evaluated re-entry course , and should not be used as a cheaper alternative to providing a structured re-entry programme . |
| 16 | Engage an independent consultant today ( there are still one or two good ones left ) and arrange to take your team away for a couple of days to brainstorm out a vision of success for the next two to five years . |
| 17 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 18 | There are still one or two flowers left on the moor . ’ |
| 19 | There are still one or two people we 've got to see who were at the Muddington dance , notably a lad called Barry Taylor who has some explaining to do . |
| 20 | His own behaviour bears out his guilt , but there are still one or two questions I would like answered . ’ |
| 21 | Now in Victorian times they were kept as pets and just like hamsters are today and there are still one or two around that er might just give you that impression but I may be really off the , the level here . |
| 22 | Too loud at times ; but there are also one or two moments of pathos — just like a Chaplin movie . |
| 23 | For that matter , there are also one or two of our countrymen who are on their own side , notably our Senator-Minister for the High Police . ’ |
| 24 | In the chapters which follow , we discuss the constructional meanings that they contribute to the language ; there are also one or two minor structures to be introduced later , and we shall have to take note of certain cases where apparently identical sequences of surface syntax correspond to different intensional patterns . |
| 25 | They are mostly Brazilians , except that there are also one or two Argentinians , Uraguayans , and Americans amongst them . |
| 26 | It has been the sometimes unspoken assumption of these two parallel debates — whose spokespersons are often one and the same — that to be on the side of modernity and modernism is to be on the side of critical theory , and that to be a postmodernist is at the same time to be in sympathy with poststructuralism . |
| 27 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 28 | This is not the case , interestingly , in Tyzack , who are now one or two generations removed from their founder and , although working on a small scale internationally , have managed to create a strong collegial style , with a low turnover of consultants . |
| 29 | The lowest air temperature will be only one or two degrees above freezing point . |
| 30 | Normally , though , it will be just one or two inspectors of each category . |