Example sentences of "one for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You need one for simple jobs like driving picture pins , and for all sorts of other tasks like nailing down loose floorboards and mending fences , not to mention any woodwork you may be assembling . |
| 2 | There was a small difference , though not a significant one , in terms of ratings for moving objects ( mean rating 3.91 vs. 4.37 , t(46)=1.28 ) but a much larger one for fixed objects ( 3.31 vs. 4.87 , ( 46 ) =6.03 , p<0.01 ) . |
| 3 | The annual accounts for that year include the sale of a dead horse for fourteen shillings , and the sale of a live one for fifteen pounds . |
| 4 | I had my first dog for 18 months and have had my second one for 3½ years . ’ |
| 5 | In addition to its mainstream schools , the borough included five special schools providing primary and secondary education to children with special needs from Islington and neighbouring boroughs — one for children with moderate learning difficulties , one for children with severe learning difficulties , one for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties , one for autistic children , and one for children with physical disabilities . |
| 6 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 7 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 8 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 9 | On Monday , the Today programme , which has been the most heavily anti-Tory one for many years , decided that Michael Heseltine should be allowed to appear . |
| 10 | ISS sees the two-year journey to the public examinations as a nebulous one for many pupils , especially those from the working class . |
| 11 | The lot of the Jews had been an uneasy one for many centuries ; now , for the first time , they were massacred in western Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 13 | Kenny does n't give much away and is not one for great speeches . |
| 14 | He felt like starting one for like-minded gentlemen . |
| 15 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 16 | and equally responsible on that one for eleven pounds , five P |
| 17 | ‘ I 've heard people talking about Chris De Burgh 's new album — first one for three years — and Springsteen — first one for five years . |
| 18 | Martin Scott , managing director Central Region , presented Brian Hodgson with a 10-year award and Naya Youssoufian with one for five years . |
| 19 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 20 | The sign said this fillin' station we 're comin' to is the last one for thirty miles . |
| 21 | He had suggested the landscaped grounds of an eighteenth-century house , noted for their expression of the picturesque : ‘ I 'm not a great one for stately homes , but you can have a good walk there . ’ |
| 22 | Genscher recalled that the decision embodied in the treaty was a difficult one for all Germans , particularly the millions who had been expelled from their homes in the area annexed to Poland , but that the treaty surrendered nothing that had not been lost long ago . |
| 23 | The legacy of the second world war is a painful one for all Yugoslavs . |
| 24 | Rather like watches , they were practical , part of the furniture and so we wore the same one for all occasions . |
| 25 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 26 | The stored program concept , the realization that instructions can be encoded and held in the store of the computer together with the data being operated on , is an important one for two reasons . |
| 27 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 28 | Several magistrates ' and lawyers ' unions protested at the handling and the outcome of both the Luchaire and the Nucci affairs and at the amnesty law , citing these as proof of the subordination of the judiciary to political power and of the existence of a two-speed system of justice ( i.e. one for elected officials and one for ordinary citizens ) . |
| 29 | He kept two bags always packed , one for hot climes and one for cold , so that immediately he heard of an eruption he could board the next available ship . |
| 30 | His theme was the fairly standard one for left-wing politicians of the need to abolish capital in private hands , but he added a strange brand of the narrowest form of nationalism , urging " Socialism for England now " . |