Example sentences of "[adj] one the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in this one the Tao was at war with itself . |
| 2 | Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six . |
| 3 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 4 | Another one The peasants up and down the valley lived and died in their special fashion . |
| 5 | There 's a bank holiday coming up now , there 's another one the end of May , |
| 6 | And if the under-sheet is rotated the opposite way to the top one the patient need not even get out . |
| 7 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 8 | the er the bigger one the half A three , it erm they are meant really to be targeted for people coming through that they can hand information to . |
| 9 | Not that Both would ever admit to bowling a straight one the ball he produced to finally get rid of was a gem and it turned the match away from India . |
| 10 | The first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple . |
| 11 | Perhaps it 's that encompasses that , that is your objective , the second one the trainee will understand how to complete , what does your audience think ? |
| 12 | The white one the dairy one the diary one . |
| 13 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 14 | There was a pomelo tree , its fruit tasting like grapefruit , but each one the size of a football . |
| 15 | For each one the clerk jacked in to his unit to check their ID and match it to their personalized ticket . |
| 16 | As the specks came nearer and enlarged , one saw in each one the germ of a Millet . |
| 17 | When , as a buyer 's conveyancer , you receive the seller 's replies to your requisitions , you should go through these carefully , as in the case of your property information forms and local search , ticking each one the reply to which is satisfactory . |
| 18 | ‘ With him are the Twelve Lords of Evil — each one the embodiment of the world 's great wickednesses . |
| 19 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 20 | That one the tuner just keeps hunting so maybe the aerial cable 's not connected to the tuner , we had one of them before did n't we , where they ? |
| 21 | Sparrowgrass will probably start favourite as his form is consistently good , but as you ask , very likely the best horse , the one with most potential for the future , is Mercer Lorrimore 's Voting Right , and I would give that one the edge . ’ |
| 22 | well that one the South of France has |
| 23 | ‘ If yer pull on that one the 'ole bloody lot 'll come down . ’ |
| 24 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 25 | Bye postal one coming up now and for the postal one the question about this record is , What 's Christmassy about this ? |
| 26 | Right and acid and perhaps the most awkward one the carbonate . |
| 27 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 28 | Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold . |
| 29 | The specific expenditure commitment will be by no means the only one the department might undertake . |
| 30 | In each case you you did it this is what I like you went straight for it you went straight for the salt on the most difficult one the carbonate . |