Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 2 | A survey by London Gay Switchboard in 1980 of people looking for accommodation found that one in four was homeless on account of their sexuality . |
| 3 | Our own work found that one in three managers appeared to go through a sense of crisis in their late thirties . |
| 4 | A study of nearly 2,500 sixth formers , conducted by Dr Anne Charlton of the Cancer Research Campaign , found that one in five smoked at colleges where smoking was not permitted , compared with one in three where smoking was allowed . |
| 5 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |
| 6 | Andrew Paddick , director general of the Institute of Insurance Brokers , claimed that one in five were already ‘ on the danger list ’ . |
| 7 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 8 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 9 | In past epidemics , the doctors reckoned that one in ten of those infected would die . |
| 10 | It was probably the only way he could get one , she thought waspishly ; the law of averages no doubt decreed that one at least would believe him , and how on earth could he want her when he 'd said all those terrible things to her ? |
| 11 | When we launched our Health and Beauty Club last year , we discovered that one in three members has a hair problem — and many simply did n't know what to do about it . |
| 12 | In 1767 Jonas Hanway thought that one in thirteen of London 's population was a domestic servant . |
| 13 | Your sermon was inspiring , and thank you for sharing this moving service with so many all round the country , so that we felt as one with your own congregation … |
| 14 | I learned that one in three marriages ends in divorce and that the rate is even higher among second marriages , but there was little comfort in being part of such a depressing statistic . |
| 15 | Laura Davies , Sue Strudwick , Trish Johnson and Nicholas yesterday all spoke as one on the subject of how , but for the support they had had from certain European sponsors down the years , they would all be thinking in terms of pulling out of playing in Europe altogether . |
| 16 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |