Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should do this only to compare one beer with another or one wine with another . |
| 2 | Many burgh councillors and freeholders were happy enough to see one of their numerous sons placed in even the humblest post in the excise administration . |
| 3 | The train was large enough to carry one boy on the engine , with one in each truck . |
| 4 | Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly . |
| 5 | So obviously a sensible and civilized couple begin by going together to see one lawyer , do n't they ? |
| 6 | The knights strike first and inflict 5 wounds , enough to kill one Troll and cause 2 further wounds . |
| 7 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 8 | Unable to get far enough inside to catch one of the more amenable waves , Foo at last resolved to attempt an outside set . |
| 9 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 10 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 11 | we always thought that , like any other , the Opéra orchestra ought only to receive one impetus and obey one movement . |
| 12 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 13 | I was still in the news room , though , and near enough to hear one of my own colleagues respond to a video of Terry Anderson in captivity with a dismissive , ‘ We 're not running that ; it 's not newsworthy ’ , as he tossed the cassette to one side . |
| 14 | The hide was twelve inches deep , both wide and long enough to fit one man and his equipment in . |
| 15 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 16 | You should be wise enough to select one of the best from all that promotional material floating into your in-tray . |
| 17 | Mr. Robert Hughes : My Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) has made a compelling case for the amendments , and I wish only to reinforce one or two of his points . |
| 18 | And when she went into the garden all she could see were some fading lupins and irises , not enough to fill one vase . |
| 19 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 20 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 21 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 22 | This makes it possible only to use one part if there is limited time available . |
| 23 | Several different types of finance may be used together to fund one project . |
| 24 | The motor of Fig.1.5 has six stator teeth and the windings on opposite teeth are connected together to form one phase . |
| 25 | Then the sun started to darken , and the orange spear-tips melted together to form one mountainous band , and the spaces under the trees flashed and shook with leaping men and torn shouting . |
| 26 | Here we are concerned with bimolecular associations where adverse entropy changes denote loss of translational ( position ) and rotational ( orientation ) motions that occur when two entities come together to form one complex . |
| 27 | Unless you are fortunate enough to possess one of the new super-format camcorders in which these defects have been ironed out , the solution is to steer clear of such subjects . |
| 28 | The organisers , Body Shop raised £2,000 — enough to send one athlete to the games ; like Mark Tong from Aylesbury , a regular in the British basketball team . |
| 29 | The main one is that investors who wish to make regular subscriptions for a period of years will need only to complete one initial application form . |
| 30 | Initially , schools were only to have one microcomputer , so there was an argument for making the microcomputer available to the whole school by placing it in the school library . |