Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The married family is , however , not the only kind of family in existence , and difficulties can arise when policies are based upon one image of the family to the exclusion of other types of family or living arrangement . |
2 | This item was introduced to encourage knitter who do not have colour changers to try out jacquard knitting but can be used to hold yarn when knitting simple stripes or any colour patterns where yarns are changed on one side of the work only . |
3 | What do you do , for example , with the situation in Hove , where the houses are built for one kind of clientele — big houses , servants — divide them up into flats ? |
4 | Water molecules are made of one hydrogen and two oxygen atoms and , apart from distilled water , countless traces of ions and salts . |
5 | This is a result of the increased knowledge of the biochemistry of life and of the way in which individual characteristics are transmitted from one generation to another . |
6 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
7 | All ledgers are kept on one database , and are automatically updated when new information is added . |
8 | A disused pipe organ case is sometimes employed as a screen and certainly a more accurate impression of a pipe organ is gained if the speakers are positioned in one place , rather than dispersed around the building . |
9 | It does not matter whether variables are declared in one list or singly : ( 6.1 ) unc Nor does it matter in which order they are declared . |
10 | The key point is that if the knives are used for one purpose and do not fall into the category of domestic cutlery there is a case for a ban . |
11 | An understandable desire on the part of model proprietors to produce forecasts and assess their accuracy as quickly as possible leads to a situation in which relationships are estimated on one vintage of data but assessed on another . |
12 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
13 | Later booster and long term follow-up sessions are arranged for one month , then three months , after completion of the structured programme . |
14 | Your text and your paragraphs are indented by one tab stop but accept the first line . |
15 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
16 | What was then a rumour — that the same units were moved from one place to another for his inspections — proved to be the truth . |
17 | The ligated fragments were inserted in one step into the Hind III site of the plasmid p220.2 ( 27 ) to create p220.2TC . |
18 | Consequently five repeat performances were staged in one day , the final one — for the night shift — finishing at 11 00pm . |
19 | In an experiment by Berrini , Della Salla , Spinnler , Sterzi and Vallar ( 1982 ) subjects were presented with one stimulus in central vision and a comparison stimulus in one or other visual field . |
20 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
21 | It was alleged that the animals were passed from one family member to another . |
22 | An elderly herder in white pyjamas was sitting to one side . |
23 | The amount of yellow and green in a picture indicates how many sites are changing from one generation to the next . |
24 | The problems of learning an additional system for parents are put to one side in stressing this need for early interaction . |
25 | Some CDs are issued for one year and even for two years but the market for these is comparatively thin . |
26 | Quails are mentioned at one point , but this story is otherwise concerned with the gift of manna . |
27 | ( By ‘ lateralisation ’ here we mean that the functions are based on one side — usually the left — rather than the other . ) |
28 | Could hard and fast lines be drawn between one form of income ( or property ) and another ? |
29 | What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it , and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder . |
30 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |