Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They are situated side by side in the square type of pod , or one above the other in the oblong pods ( usually in two columns ) .
2 As the people from whom paper SPRs originate may range from software developers with an intimate knowledge of the software to users with only a rudimentary understanding of computers , it is advisable to route incoming SPRs through a single responsible authority , or one per project , associated with the LIFESPAN manager .
3 Or one on top of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye urgently declaring , ‘ WARNING !
4 For example they may be asked to prepare a training session on how to deal with difficult clients or one on housing benefits .
5 And er er it varied from one stroke on one hand for a certain thing or one on each hand , up to I 've had as many as six strokes of the strap .
6 Eliot had in his early seventies become an historical figure , or one at least in whom the lineaments of history could be traced .
7 An irregularly folded cloth , or one with the folds bunched , reduces the contact area and thus efficiency .
8 Fastenings are made as simple as possible : ladies might use an all-in-one slip-over brassiè , or one with front fastening ; shoes might have velcro or elastic laces rather than normal laces ; shirts would use velcro strips rather than buttons ; men 's trousers would have a zip fly rather than buttons , with a velcro fastening at the top ; braces are easier to manage than a belt to hold trousers up ; a lady 's skirt might have an elasticated waist or a velcro fastening .
9 In the case of an inflected language or one with many and various verb-forms , it has been almost impossible for teachers to adapt to the new methods .
10 The ideal of the initiate is to become a ‘ star ’ or one with the Gods ; to achieve union with the natural forces which created him or her .
11 A mixture of peat and unwashed river sand or fine gravel , or one with clay or loam with gravel or coarse sand , will induce robust growth with dark green leaves .
12 Or one with a famous view .
13 His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle .
14 But even where a clear cause can be established — for example , a child with severe brain damage , or one with a serious sensory or motor disorder — it would be simplistic to attribute all the child 's learning difficulties to the basic impairment alone .
15 A small country , either in terms of area or population , or one with a federal structure consisting of relatively small units , will retain more responsibilities at federal or state ( that is , second-tier ) government levels .
16 A bilateral treaty ( or one with a limited number of parties ) creating mutual rights and duties in personam most approximates to a contract ; it is here that the identity of treaty partners is most significant .
17 Although Koehler ( 1914 ) suggested that O. nodosa was conspecific with O. anomala several differences are apparent , O. anomala differing from O. nodosa by the following characters : 1 , the jaw appears narrower than O. nodosa ; 2 , the apical and oral papillae do not appear to be as long nor as widely separated from each other as in O. nodosa ; 3. the distalmost oral papilla is often large and flap like in O. anomala but long and flattened like the other papillae in O. nodosa ; 4. the shape of the oral shields differs in O. anomala where it is rounded pentagonal with a rounded to obtuse proximal angle , straight lateral sides and a straight or slightly rounded distal edge , in O. nodosa it is a more ornate pentagonal shape with an obtuse proximal angle , slightly indented lateral sides and a rounded distal edge or one with a slight median projection ; 5. the ventral arm spines of O. anomala are slightly rugose with small or no secondary points doing the shaft ; those of O. nodosa have very prominent secondary points along the shaft ; 6. the ventral arm plates of O. anomala appear to be narrow and less axehead shaped than O. nodosa .
18 Downstairs wastes ( from the kitchen sink , for example ) can be taken out to a gully as in the older system , except that they must discharge below the level of the grid on the top of the gully , which means using a back-inlet gully or one with a hole cut in the grid .
19 In 1868 there were thirteen police court sites in the Central Province , or one for every 40,000 inhabitants .
20 You will also need curtain heading tape or stiffening of your choice ( Chapter 6 ) to the length of your valance strip , plus enough valance or curtain hooks to space approximately every 7.5cm ( 3in ) along a gathered heading , or one for each pleat on a pleated heading , and one for each end .
21 In a language which has no written from , or one for which no pedagogical grammar has been prepared , you will have to learn the language from scratch , eliciting all your own language material , planning your own language learning programme and writing your own drills .
22 Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of
23 He knew , in short , precisely when to take two steps to the right , or one to the left .
24 And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung .
25 Total of 9 lifts and 9 falls = Loss 810 cu. ft. = 9/100 lock — that is to say there is no loss , other than that of 9 separate ‘ fits ’ , or one in each case of 90 cubic feet .
26 The vague term ‘ really serious crime ’ was defined to mean an offence which carried the possibility of a three-year sentence for conviction on a first offence , or one in which large numbers of people were involved .
27 I have often heard this said as a last-ditch attempt by adults to find consolation or uplift from a dreich church service or one in which the sermon was the dominant factor and was long-winded or incomprehensible or both .
28 Arithmetic and logical operations are now performed between operands both of which are in accumulators , or one in an accumulator and one in a store location .
29 This is an important topic ; it often happens that an approximate reciprocal of a matrix A is known : perhaps from a rough calculation , or one in which an error has been made , or even that belonging to a neighbour matrix of A. Refinement of this approximate reciprocal is then required .
30 In 1984–5 , over 7 million households , or one in three of all households , were in receipt of housing benefit , and the cost was equal to more than 10 per cent of the entire social security budget .
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