Example sentences of "one [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 2 | This makes it easy to use each crayon as a fine , crisp ‘ tool ’ as well as a blunter one or rubbed on its side . |
| 3 | You may want to replace the cold water system either to convert a direct system into an indirect one or to replace old lead piping ( or a rusting galvanised cistern ) with more modern copper or plastic . |
| 4 | Shall we have that one or keep i keep us going for a bit ? |
| 5 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 6 | no problem we just multiply that one or divide |
| 7 | If you simply want to change a direct cylinder to an indirect one or to fit a cylinder with an immersion heater boss , there are ways of adapting an existing direct cylinder — see Upgrading cylinders ( page 52 ) . |
| 8 | Do you think this was er special to your family that you were treated as you were n't a brainy one or do you think that was the way girls were generally treated ? |
| 9 | I have n't read any match report yet … so I thought I 'd have a go at a quick one & include a few comments about Rocky as well . |
| 10 | In as much as a school can be said to have an approach ( eg formal , informal , team taught , class or group based , or one where streaming and setting or vertical or horizontal grouping is practised ) , the degree to which members of staff conform to it very much depends on how the school is led . |
| 11 | This leaves MI5 in the enviable position of being accountable to no one nor having to explain anything it does or is alleged to have done . |
| 12 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 13 | A whole new language , but one that translated meant enormous fun . |
| 14 | What they add is a new perspective , one that is broader , more experienced and , most important , one that extends further in time . |
| 15 | It took women 's liberation to formulate a different kind of positive intervention , one that seeks to protect the casualties and raise consciousness about the causes of violence . |
| 16 | Actually we were n't married at the time , so we had to get married straight away and find some money to buy a house and so on , and Daddy had to give up acting and find a real job , one that brought in a regular income . |
| 17 | ‘ The one that brought nomes here . ’ |
| 18 | The problem was the other Voice in her head , the one that could silence all the rest , the one that brought its pictures with it , the one that poured memories into her mind until she thought she would burst . |
| 19 | It 's a similar deal to the one that brought another of Wigan 's old guard , Andy Gregory , to Headingley . |
| 20 | Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . |
| 21 | I did notice that we could see through the one that brought us here , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 22 | The primary consideration should be to select an analytical laboratory where there is a formal , statistically based AQC system ; one that operates routinely for exactly the type of analysis we require . |
| 23 | She may shock , or upset ; but to women she represents a power with which they want to be in touch , as their birthright , one that operates naturally in the medium of night , when all the duties of day are left behind . |
| 24 | Safety technology — both active and passive — is now a significant selling point , and one that promises only to increase in importance . |
| 25 | Well the other day they they were so easy the other day I thought to myself erm who was it , what was it , it oh who , who was the one that sang the green grass of . |
| 26 | Konorski 's ( 1967 ) well-developed and influential theory of conditioning deals with inhibitory learning by assuming that an inhibitory CS is one that activates a ‘ no-US ’ representation . |
| 27 | If you are not one that likes to participate in active sports , then school yourself to take the stairs instead of the lift , walk to the newspaper shop instead of driving … indeed , take a vigorous walk whenever you can . |
| 28 | A standard response , yet one that begs the question , just how do they manage to mine such a rich vein of talent ? |
| 29 | This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's not the only one that uses the belt , Aggie . |