Example sentences of "in one [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Mr Smith is not only proposing to raise tax in one go by more than anyone has ever dared to before but also concentrating the effect on a relatively small group . |
| 2 | In one case of each condition , IgA only was present . |
| 3 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 4 | Slightly less clear is the effect of FSA , s 48(2) ( h ) , which authorises rules : " enabling or requiring information obtained by an authorised person in the course of carrying on one part of his business to be withheld by him from persons with whom he deals in the course of carrying on another part and for that purpose enabling or requiring persons employed in one part of that business to withhold information from those employed in another part . " |
| 5 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |
| 6 | The C1 race was remarkable because Andy Train entered , nobody ever having done two 10km races in one day at this level before . |
| 7 | If capital transfer to other countries was also made illegal or tightly controlled , this would also help to prevent corporations evading the law by exporting those behaviours which would be illegal in one country to another where they are not . |
| 8 | In one country after another , ‘ reform communism ’ proved empty . |
| 9 | Unemployment and inflation have increased in one country after another and two of the most volatile and destabilising elements in our economies have turned out to be the size of the public sector deficit and the rate of growth of the money supply . |
| 10 | The main task of the foreign exchange department of a bank is the conversion of private or corporate bank deposits in one currency into another , e.g. $ into DM . |
| 11 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 12 | The girls walked off in one direction to some hedges on the far side , leaving George with Willie and Zach . |
| 13 | Yet the British public may come to regret its lack of interest in one issue above all : the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 15 | She had needed forty-two takes to get her lines right in one scene of Some Like It Hot . |
| 16 | This means that it is possible to kill many more rabbits in one field at any one time with a rifle than can ever be accomplished with a shotgun . |
| 17 | In one instance after some teenagers had burned a milk float , it was spelled out with the additional phrase ‘ the same as was used by Mahatma Gandhi in India ’ . |
| 18 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 19 | Trends were mixed throughout the 1970s : in one half of these countries , women tended to marry at increasingly older ages , in others , earlier . |
| 20 | From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ . |
| 21 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 22 | This is because a cost reduction in one product for this reason would demand the recalculation of all the other allocations of overheads to ensure that the total is still absorbed . |
| 23 | This is because a cost reduction in one product for this reason would demand the recalculation of all the other allocations of overheads to ensure that the total is still absorbed . |
| 24 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Sometimes , the legal title can be lengthy , and where land has remained in one family for many years , as is often the case with agricultural land , the chain of title can be complex . |
| 26 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 27 | ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’ |
| 28 | Time travellers forbidden from remaining in one place for more than a short while , The Shamen are taking pop to places it 's hitherto been excluded from . |
| 29 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 30 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |