Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 2 | It was also agreed that Zimbabwean troops guarding the two strategic corridors across the country be withdrawn within one month . |
| 3 | Who is he , to be provoked by one of us ? |
| 4 | There is some evidence that particular characteristics of events are more likely to be implicated in one disorder than another . |
| 5 | Suppose that an instruction which specified indexed addressing could also specify whether the index value was to be modified ( for example , it could be incremented by one ) . |
| 6 | If the view condition is to be incremented from one state to another in a given number of steps , two complete sets of parameters need to be held . |
| 7 | The fact that Balboa caused the Ocean to become a Spanish lake , in effect , would come to be recognized as one of the most important stratagems in the development of the modern world . |
| 8 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 9 | Their mission in life appears to be competing with one another in a race to remould their ancient and historic rural buildings into approximations of Birmingham town centre . |
| 10 | A case study will be undertaken of one primary and one secondary school in the same LEA , focusing mainly on the work of the headteacher , senior staff and other teachers in planning , preparing for and introducing the changes . |
| 11 | The first M constraints express the fact that each individual undertakes exactly one task and the second M constraints say that each task should be undertaken by one individual . |
| 12 | Consequently thousands of workers may be sacked from one day to the next . |
| 13 | The effects of diarrhoeal disease can be conquered with one of the simplest and cheapest natural remedies known to science . |
| 14 | Although there is no overall meaning , everything can be explained on one measure or another . |
| 15 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 16 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 17 | It will be seen that , if the maintenance of such longitudinal vortices is possible , the presence of cloud streets ( long lines of shallow cumulus clouds ) , which have also been clearly shown by satellite photographs , and seif dunes could be explained by one single hypothesis . |
| 18 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 19 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | They can be traced from one frame to another : |
| 21 | He also pointed out , though somewhat less convincingly , that some geological structures could be traced from one continent to another across what are now wide stretches of ocean . |
| 22 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 23 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Clearly , financial assistance will be given for one management-employee buy-out team per company and no more because that would be counter-productive . |
| 24 | According to the EC Directive , when nutrition information is given , it must be given in one of two ways : |
| 25 | The questionnaires were designed so that responses would be given in one of three ways : a yes-no answer ; a comment ; or a choice from either three or five possible responses . |
| 26 | But a new entity , MODULE can be described which may only be given by one LECTURER and is part of only one COURSE . |
| 27 | ‘ This fall the homeless will be mobilising into one big movement with thousands marching on Washington . |
| 28 | With modern technology many thousands of bistables can be formed on one silicon chip . |
| 29 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 30 | If all the requirements for amplifiers could be examined by one design/development group it would probably be found that , by judicious specifying , two or three separate amplifiers only are required . |