Example sentences of "[vb -s] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ampersand joins one label to another , I use the word join erm , it 's not the official technical word for what it does , does anybody know what the erm , official word for what this does is known as ? |
| 2 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 3 | MR MAJOR 'S majority in the new Parliament owes one seat , maybe two , to proxy votes cast in marginal constituencies by expatriates , Conservatives said yesterday . |
| 4 | It only needs one person to pass on an infection . |
| 5 | No there 's only boat one boat only needs one pair of paddles . |
| 6 | Leading goalscorer Ally McCoist , who needs one goal to become Rangers 's most prolific striker in European competition , is more doubtful with a calf injury . |
| 7 | Not just the arming of the officers , that needs one authorisation but on forcible entry needs another authorisation does n't it ? |
| 8 | It only needs one horse to come to a stud or livery yard premises incubating the disease to start a large outbreak . |
| 9 | The seat can be used in both forward and rear-facing positions and it only needs one hand to fold it down . |
| 10 | But the Levermore Quick-Grip only needs one hand to operate , leaving the other free to adjust . |
| 11 | The importance of ISDN is as the foundation for the entire model ; the single , standard interface through which all the rest will be provided : ‘ Our model says that this guy needs one interface ’ , says Corris , then he can decide when making a call that he wants to use certain intelligent aspects of the network , he can say ‘ I need another channel … |
| 12 | For the stubborn ones we go no more than ten per cent over the value and say the offer stands one month only . |
| 13 | Continuing with the estate map , at Halling Bottom on the corner of Vicarage Road , there stands one house , this was the house known as Forge Cottage which was demolished after the last war . |
| 14 | In addition to twenty-seven sculptures on all scales and from every period in Calder 's long career , the selection includes a strong representation of works on paper ink drawings , gouaches , etchings and lithographs one oil painting , ‘ Fireman 's Dinner for Brancusi ’ ( 1926 ) , and several examples of his jewellery . |
| 15 | Beats one man , then another and then a third . |
| 16 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 17 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 18 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 19 | It is also useful to note that , in general , a molecule has one bond stretching mode per bond , although in systems with rings or cages the stretching motions are not always described so simply . |
| 20 | He makes a convincing case for links of various sorts and degrees between West European countries going back as much as 5,000 years , but his thesis has one weakness . |
| 21 | The diagram has one segment filled in ; pupils could fill in the others themselves , working either in groups or individually . |
| 22 | Although they were quick on the uptake of word processing systems , the company has one computer per staff member , they were still ‘ double keying ’ the majority of their text although portions were being supplied to the typesetters on disk . |
| 23 | But her boy , who already has one success in the can , would settle for a shiny new toy . |
| 24 | In an intra-linguistic description , we will simply state this difference as a structural linguistic fact ( and do the same for the other differences we notice ) and that will be the end of it : dialect A has one structure , and dialect B has another . |
| 25 | The constitution of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has one merit : it is clear . |
| 26 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 27 | That has ten curators and this museum has one person and she is n't properly funded . |
| 28 | Deborah Keyes has one child , is married to a central heating fitter and lives in a ‘ high-rise ’ flat . |
| 29 | Symbolically the worker has one foot on the edge of the bog , reaching out to hold the hand of the person trampling in it , but the second foot of the worker is on firm land , to help pull the person out . |
| 30 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |