Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it is a close-run thing in any one of these seats , it could make the difference between a win or a lose for one side or the other . ’ |
| 2 | Arabic , Eskimo , and some Slavonic languages formally distinguish between one , two , and more than two . |
| 3 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 4 | The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals . |
| 5 | Knives and sharp instruments are the most common weapons used in homicides and account for one third of all homicides . |
| 6 | Duodenal varices account for one third of all ectopic variceal bleeding and usually occurs in adults . |
| 7 | Bring to the boil , then lower heat , cover and simmer for one hour . |
| 8 | We speak of the ‘ sacrifices ’ we make for one another — that notion rings many bells . |
| 9 | A high score in a series of heats had to be accumulated to guarantee a good semi-final position , and qualify for one of the six places in the final . |
| 10 | If found guilty , he will be Russia 's most prolific serial killer and qualify as one of the most depraved mass murderers of all time . |
| 11 | It might mean that the same ten pupils were absent for the whole week ; or it might mean that overall , five pupils were absent for a whole week , plus two pupils absent for two days , plus 21 pupils absent for one day . |
| 12 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 13 | When courtship starts , he brings his belly close to that of the female and the two coil about one another . |
| 14 | Compact , single-member , constituencies ( as opposed to large , multi-member , constituencies ) provide for one representative in a way that is said to facilitate constituent-member contact and the redress of individual grievances . |
| 15 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 16 | He send for one brother , then two brother , then four brother , then for his Mamma to make house for him in New York . |
| 17 | To find out more about fishing in Ireland , simply send for one of our free brochures and you 'll soon see why anglers who dream about fishing , dream about fishing in Ireland . |
| 18 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 19 | I 'll meet you there , then , say about one o'clock ? ’ |
| 20 | These work fine expect for one annoying problem which I can not seem to eliminate . |
| 21 | Basic measures of the percentage of GNP passing through government hands in the form of direct expenditure ( 27 per cent in 1975 ) or transfer payments ( 22 per cent in 1975 ) , the scale of the public sector and the battery of regulatory control , add up to an order of central economic direction which , by comparison , makes the Victorian age appear as one of pure laissez-faire . |
| 22 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 23 | Hence , as we follow the orbit around , we oscillate between one point and the other . |
| 24 | swap for one of your spare uprights . |
| 25 | Every time she got a bump or knock off one of the others she was crying instead of clouting them back . |
| 26 | In this sense , for example , the employment relationship was visualised by Goodrich ( 1975 ) in his classic study of the British mining industry in terms of a ‘ frontier of control ’ , the boundaries of which continually shift as one side or the other gains ascendancy . |
| 27 | Many larger personal injury firms have augmented key date systems by generating reports at various intervals from the opening of a case ( say after one , three , five , seven and ten years ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I sleep with one eye open , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 29 | It ‘ welds together all the differentiated and diversely articulated organs of social management , regulation and command into one immense structure of power ’ ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , p. 109 ) . |
| 30 | You can make one of these little pink things appear with one of them |