Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] just one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone . |
2 | A small settlement might have just one tomb : Knossos was ringed by such tombs . |
3 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
4 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
5 | ‘ If you could see just one show at the ( Edinburgh ) Festival , it would have to be this one ’ . |
6 | For example you could have just one Troll in your army and it will count as a unit on its own . |
7 | Well you could have just one aspirin . |
8 | Certainly , judged from a purely clinical standpoint the Jubilate reveals all of the features of psychotic thought disorder , of which , chosen at random from its 1739 lines , we may cite just one example ( B590 — 4 ) : |
9 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
10 | If the Frau would wait just one moment then . ’ |
11 | I shall give just one example here . |
12 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |
13 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . |
14 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . ’ |
15 | Whereas before the majority of pet dog owners would have just one dog , more and more people now decide to get a second dog — often as a playmate for their first dog . |
16 | Jane 's happiness would take just one death ; one death on a field of slaughter , one more corpse among the battalions of the dead . |
17 | Each group would interview just one person . |
18 | Most often , a particular account team will include just one media specialist , whose job is , first , to work with the rest of the account group , especially the creative team , to decide what type of media should be used — press , TV ; colour or black and white ; large or small spaces ; etc . |
19 | I will give just one reason for this . |
20 | I will take just one example . |
21 | This stunning defeat means that if Wigan win at Featherstone this evening they will require just one point from their remaining three matches . |
22 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
23 | I will say just one thing more , Utterson . |
24 | If we can assist just one employee in every hundred to make a change to his or her lifestyle then we are having the desired impact . ’ |
25 | A nickname can mark just one incident in the life of the person concerned . |