Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can ask the school , the major motoring associations , his social worker or his general practitioner whether he needs to attend one of the recognized centres for handicapped drivers . |
| 2 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 3 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 4 | Use mole grips to secure one end of the wire to the foot while the rest is being looped round . |
| 5 | If you have a lot of dead artists on you books you function quite differently — Leslie Waddington only needs to seel one Picasso and he 's paid the rent . |
| 6 | He really wants to discuss one or two things with you . ’ |
| 7 | She liked it so much she wants to record one of the songs , ’ Ca n't Keep Out The Night ’ . |
| 8 | The President of the United States has to press one button , the man on the spot another : the radio frequencies are so wildly different that the chances of anyone happening on the right combination are billions to one . ’ |
| 9 | the amount of memory a computer needs to describe one character of text , data or a program . |
| 10 | He wants to stay one of the boys . |
| 11 | If the local authority wants to pay one man to keep one of those areas clean and tidy , it 's a sin . |
| 12 | A kingdom like ours has to have one ruler . |
| 13 | Who wants to have one of these metallic cloth caps clamped to their house , reeking of a proletariat culture of tabloid newspapers and darts championships ? |
| 14 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 15 | The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice . |
| 16 | An educator only has to prevent one new HIV infection a year to save the NHS his or her entire salary in future AIDS treatment costs alone . |
| 17 | These processes are often interlinked and although they will be discussed separately here it is often the case that measures to combat one problem may lead directly to another , or that desertification results from soil erosion and/or salinisation . |
| 18 | There is no need to allocate a copy of a book to a service point which happens to receive one or two reservations for it . |
| 19 | It plans to open one new store a week and is investing heavily in new technology as competition gets stiffer . |
| 20 | Still Mo' Better Blues is full of fine moments and happens to have one of the very best opening-credits sequences you 'll see in this or any other year . |
| 21 | Dame Janet Baker may have announced her retirement from public performance , but she still plans to make one or two recordings . |
| 22 | The following comments were made : ‘ The most significant conclusion is that there is a great interest in online searching by both scientists and engineers ’ ; ‘ The study participants seemed to like using IIDA and online searching , which tends to support one of our hypotheses that end-users will like the idea of doing their own simple searches ’ . |
| 23 | The US says that it intends to axe one satellite . |
| 24 | As this becomes overloaded , i.e. as more information arrives in the message , an untrained interpreter tends to do one of the following : |
| 25 | In proposing the IBOA motion on Unemployment , the General Secretary said ‘ Heavy emphasis on job creation tends to over-shadow one of the crucial features , that is job retention . |
| 26 | If it costs to transport one item from i to j , how should the goods be transported in order to satisfy all requirements at minimum cost ? |
| 27 | The wild safari park in Winston , Oregon , intends to export one of its lar gibbons through an animal dealer to a Mexican zoo known to have bought wild-caught gorillas on the black market . |
| 28 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 29 | But the fact remains that what tends to distinguish one interpretation of the Tenth Symphony from another is not so much the moment-by-moment characterization as the pacing of dramatic structure . |
| 30 | What all this work suggests is that the human 's body clock and rhythms show several periods and that the combination of life-style and environment tends to accentuate one of these . |