Example sentences of "one to " in BNC.

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1 The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ .
2 RADA offers two to three scholarships per year for UK students , Webber Douglas offers two , RSAMD offer a small number of scholarships and Guildford School of Acting offers one to an acting student , for fees only .
3 There is the obvious price dodge of skimping on the thickness of silver , measured by cutlers in microns — which can be anything from one to 50 .
4 Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste .
5 Irving Layton is not one to be lost in a crowd .
6 Finally , still shaking , she cut the photos apart and clipped one to each letter .
7 This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency .
8 As for Provincial , if you were visiting an area in which you were not quite sure what to expect , you might find Mark 1 or 2 ( the latter air conditioned or otherwise ) locomotive-hauled rakes of various lengths and compositions , first-generation multiple units ( anything from one to nine cars , riding roughly but still with forward and rear vision ) , or the latest Sprinters , plain , super or express , many with privately run buffet-trolley service on long cross-country journeys .
9 Movement makes its proper effect when the choreographer has selected and co-ordinated appropriate movements to make sentences flow from one to another with such style , quality and expression that the design makes sense .
10 Tell that one to the Palace press office !
11 This feature can be used to update information stored in a receiver about programme services other than the one to which the set is tuned .
12 And Hewlett is the one to start with , probably the best peg on which to hang a necessarily rash characterization of that literary world of late-Edwardian England which Fred Manning entered from Australia , and Pound from the United States .
13 In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy .
14 Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused .
15 Tell that one to the White Rabbit .
16 Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas .
17 Waddle will be the one to benefit from Barnes 's absence .
18 Some lawyers are typified as ‘ clever ’ , others as ‘ stupid ’ ; the former require one to be cautious , while the latter give greater opportunity for having the wool pulled over their eyes .
19 So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain .
20 This can range from one to three or six months , depending on what the band feel is most suitable .
21 The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ .
22 Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’
23 At various times Keynes operated on all three levels , and moved easily from one to another .
24 As a result , it could vary from one to four or five years , with fallow periods of four to twenty years , the greater periods being common in the equatorial forests .
25 But Dave Harrell , the Walsall angler who won the Matchman of the Year title two years ago , also admitted : ‘ Denis is red hot at the moment and I think he is definitely the one to beat .
26 Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes .
27 With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent .
28 Amongst the works on view was the one to which he has returned most often — the portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria , second wife of Philip IV , painted in 1652 ( Fig. 4 ) .
29 The idea is a relatively new one to engineering but certainly not to planet earth : collagen , keratin , chitin and cellulose are some of nature 's strong fibres and make possible everything from bones and lobster carapaces to giant sequoias .
30 National Home Energy Rating ( NHER ) assesses the efficiency of heating , lighting and domestic appliances on a scale of one to 10 .
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