Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb infin] one " in BNC.

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1 I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window .
2 It is not unusual to see management prepare one business plan and profit projections for the benefit of the company 's owners , to be used by them in determining the price at which they will be prepared to sell ; and another more optimistic plan and projections for themselves .
3 Does daddy have one of these ?
4 ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’
5 One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent .
6 So a single-member company may of course have one member , but will normally need two officers , ie the member/director and another person as company secretary .
7 let mum have one No she 'd
8 Did his spirit want one thing and his body another ?
9 Every site will of course require one main LIFESPAN Process , to do the job of Configuration Management for which you bought the product .
10 That does of course pose one or two problems , as far as the locational aspects of the new settlement are concerned , as I understand it neither the County Council nor the relevant District Councils have mandated on the question of location , they 've not yet embarked on the detailed exercise which will be necessary to identify a preferred location .
11 Will the Minister answer one straight question ?
12 Does not the Minister understand one thing ?
13 The years 1921–2 did in fact cover one of the worst periods in the economic fortunes of the Smolensk guberniia .
14 Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust .
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