Example sentences of "one by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the secular names , there is an additional one by which the person is known in the synagogue , by which he is ‘ called to the Torah ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I should be going , ’ she said , hoping that the time was a convincing one by now . |
| 3 | Before a cremation can take place three statutory forms have to be completed , one by next of kin , the others by two different doctors . |
| 4 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 5 | Edmund Wilson and Cyril Connolly were as ready to talk of Ovid as of the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant , and indeed ready to illuminate the one by shafts of light thrown from the other … |
| 6 | A middle-aged disabled woman attempts to do the same , edging gingerly down the exactly 100 Keep Fit steps , one by painful one . |
| 7 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 8 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 9 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 10 | You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus , buying a drink there to salve your conscience , and crossing the street to pick up a local bus . |
| 11 | No one by 1989 could doubt the Prime Minister 's stamina as , politically , a long-distance runner . |
| 12 | Mr Neville Chamberlain , in his Housing Act of 1923 , changed the subsidy arrangement to one by which the Government undertook to give a definite and limited contribution of £6 per annum per house for a period of twenty years . |
| 13 | Having decided on the capacity of the venue and the ticket price , it is simple to multiply one by the other to ‘ gross the hall ’ . |
| 14 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 15 | During its course two major contestants had been eliminated , one by assassination and one by detention , and party politics in Kenya had become obsessed with the struggle between personalities and the rival power of different Kikuyu clans . |
| 16 | During its course two major contestants had been eliminated , one by assassination and one by detention , and party politics in Kenya had become obsessed with the struggle between personalities and the rival power of different Kikuyu clans . |
| 17 | • The basic biochemical process is one by which glycogen in the muscle ( a store of glucose ) is broken down to release energy which can then be used to drive the muscles . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's one by the S-Bahn , ’ Bodo said . |
| 19 | Only Alexander Mackendrick at Ealing and David Lean seemed able , to some extent , to sustain their earlier initiatives , the one by focusing an acerbic eye on the state of England , the other by applying his extraordinary craftsmanship to such international films as The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) . |
| 20 | I wanted to get away from the boring white theme , but the only dress I really liked was one by David Fielden which had white fur and beading . |
| 21 | It was not a motor-driven electronically tuned performance ( like a recent one by Salonen and the Philharmonia ) but one which attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the slower sections , above all those at the beginning of the second part , and one which was thoughtful enough to seem to come to its violent conclusion in spite of itself . |
| 22 | I have to use one by the side of the rails . ’ |
| 23 | Their nihilism is jumbled up with a mystical affirmation of experience ( horror for the Buttholes is awe-full ) but also with humour ( they 've advanced through parodying successive rock idioms , exaggeration improving each one by making it more extreme ) . |
| 24 | The style was a perfect foil to the fripperies of the cottage orné and displayed the serious character of its commissioner , Robert Sayer , who had just bought this large property and wanted to live in a modern house rather than the older one by the abbey ruins . |
| 25 | Western Europe had wriggled out of that one by the end of the 11th century . |
| 26 | The government disagrees , pointing out that recent studies , including one by the World Bank , show that Zimbabwe could get along fine with a commercial farming industry half its current size . |
| 27 | You are expected not just to have one by you , but to answer it or , if you can not ( because you are ‘ in a meeting ’ ) , then to have a secretary to take messages and make sure that calls are returned . |
| 28 | A longer one by Katharine Hamnett costs around £730 . |
| 29 | Often makers try pulling a fast one by giving a tractor a number that 's bigger than its actual horsepower . |
| 30 | Yet this much can be said : that in the research of these days , the evidence of some form of parochial structure is more likely to take one by surprise for its earliness than its lateness . |