Example sentences of "at one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 2 | At one station they had cut short their promenade and dived back to get a thermometer . |
| 3 | At one station he entered the coach directly behind the engine , only to be summarily ejected by the guard . |
| 4 | At one village he was the only one of the appointed speakers to turn up . |
| 5 | Figure 1 ‘ Managerial hierarchy in fiction and in fact ’ shows the hierarchical structure of part of a department at one company I studied , along with the approximate responsibility time span for each position . |
| 6 | At one location it is possible to inspect not only the file of the company known to the searcher but also those of any related companies that this inspection reveals . |
| 7 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 8 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 9 | At one level we are talking about the way in which planning decisions are actually arrived at ‘ in the national interest ’ . |
| 10 | At one level we discovered time being spent on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those recorded by HMI and by other research projects . |
| 11 | At one level we can suggest that the adversary politics perspective is more at one with the reality of party politics than is the thesis about responsible party government in Britain , but we really need to attend to the facts with respect to two broad areas of concern . |
| 12 | She grieved deeply for him but without bitterness ; at one level she is still grieving years later but it is not a destructive grieving . |
| 13 | At one level it is very much a play about sexual attraction and frustration . |
| 14 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 15 | At one level it celebrates sexual intimacy . |
| 16 | At one level it may be expressed by a Commander-in-Chief who is determining the strategic objectives of the military and has to convince the generals . |
| 17 | At one level it is a question of ensuring that its judgments are reflective of a genuine balance between the collective interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 18 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 19 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 20 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 21 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 22 | At one time we contemplated incorporating the barn , but Russell needed a studio and it was ideal . |
| 23 | At one time we used to start the training courses on on both wallets and folders on a Tuesday . |
| 24 | At one time we said it was you know rewarded on the edge of technology when they like most things you know . |
| 25 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 26 | At one time they hit 356p . |
| 27 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 28 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 29 | At one time they were very much cultivated in Provence and are still popular there . |
| 30 | They used to buy from Ghana a lot and er at one time they stopped it and this very nearly brought down Ghana 's economy right down . |