Example sentences of "in one [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How satisfying it would have been to vent her feelings in one sharp slap of that carved-ivory face ! |
| 2 | They were also asked to assess ‘ home environment and attitude ’ in thirty-one authorities , ‘ sociability ’ and ‘ conduct and moral character ’ in twelve , co-operation in eleven , and in one each imagination , personal habits and personal appearance . |
| 3 | In one large-scale study , the secondary mathematics project ‘ CSMS ’ ( Hart , 1981 ) , extensive interviewing was carried out on a range of mathematical topics , and the strategies that pupils used were identified . |
| 4 | To a bed I reached in one drunk stride . |
| 5 | In one typical incident in November 1936 when during a match at Wolverhampton Wanderers spectators had attacked visiting Chelsea players , there were more violent scenes after the game . |
| 6 | In one typical case reported recently by the Union of Communication Workers , an operator was asked by the ambulance service to keep a woman talking until they arrived to prevent her falling into a coma . |
| 7 | In one blinding flash then , she had realised how much she had actually given up for Paul in a futile attempt to avert his jealous outbursts — friends , family , social life , even smiling … |
| 8 | It is easy to see from the list of qualities appropriate to the good Beguine listed in one thirteenth-century manuscript how their piety engaged with contemplative spirituality . |
| 9 | A party supporting the government , yet differing from most of the other members of it in one specific particular : its opposition to the tariff . |
| 10 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
| 11 | Badr al-Din Mahmud ( Kadizade : kadi of Aleppo from 963/1555–6 to 967/1560 ) , also later to become Mufti of Istanbul , and in one specific case , quoted by Ata'i , was overruled by him ; while Molla Muslih al-Din Mustafa ( Circinzade Mustafa ) , appointed muderris/mufti in Bosnasarayi in 965/1557–8 , fought the kadi of Bosnasarayi to a standstill over certain matters , both then making representations to Istanbul and both being removed from office for their pains . " |
| 12 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 13 | I 'm using ‘ happy ’ in one specific turn of phrase , which is some kind of extension of its basic meaning . ’ |
| 14 | In one industrial estate in Raipur , where the workers of only one company were affiliated , there are now 12 whose employees have sought the protection of the red-and-green flag . |
| 15 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 16 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |
| 17 | Earlier Miss Higgins had beaten Hazel Kavanagh ( Grange ) by 3 and 1 in one semi final and Miss Rogers had knocked out the champion Eileen Rose Power ( Kilkenny ) by 3 and 2 in the other . |
| 18 | Van and Bob busking in Athens : an amusing yet titanic meeting of minds in One Irish Rover |
| 19 | Moreover , in one increased concentrations of docosahexaenoic acid ( C22:6n3 ) were also found . |
| 20 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
| 21 | In one much-quoted case a holding of 30 acres in the manor of Plumpton , increased in scale value by nearly three hundred per cent in the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | But the alliance , if it holds , would reduce Mr Gorbachev 's options in one crucial respect : he would find it hard , if not impossible , to close down the Baltic parliaments without extending the crackdown to Russia itself . |
| 23 | Docherty 's thoughts on football management diverted from Shankly 's in one crucial respect : scandal . |
| 24 | Misfortune between the posts apart , Martin was lucky in one crucial respect . |
| 25 | Le Roux' plans cam unstuck in one crucial area : production . |
| 26 | Following a full day of debate on the Loyal Address and two days on the Second Reading of the Bill , the country is none the wiser about what the Labour party proposes on local government finance , save in one crucial respect : we now know that it is committed to ending all control on local authority expenditure . |
| 27 | There was no indication whether individuals within the subgroups had travelled to either their country of origin , if appropriate , or — if born in one geographical location — had travelled to other areas where the incidence of environmental toxoplasma exposed them to increased risk of this infection . |
| 28 | Yet in one telling passage he speaks of his loneliness and of a crushing depression . |
| 29 | The pool is complete with three water buffaloes whose hooves help to open up the pools and to spread the fern spores — an ecological niche summed up in one telling image . |
| 30 | In one stinging indictment , the CEGB 's Lord Marshall said that the fuel rods from power stations would have been better stored in dry , gas-cooled chambers , as environmental critics had proposed , rather than under water . |