Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] one [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him .
2 Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel .
3 This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest .
4 She only asked for one word to be removed . ’
5 At the same time , influential psychodynamic doctrine held that children can only relate to one set of parent figures and that psychological ties are more important than biological ones .
6 Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions .
7 MANY mothers agreed with Helen Bullock that men can only focus on one thing at a time .
8 Where a wider space is available beside the house , you can put up a wider , detached garage , perhaps sited with one wall on the boundary of your property , to leave a pathway between it and the house .
9 I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts !
10 For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary .
11 Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time .
12 The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught .
13 Although you can only work on one piece of a garment at a time , you can have up to sixteen separate pieces in each garment file , as long as they will all be knitted to the same stitch and row tension .
14 Heathrow has , at least , the marginal advantage of being civilized , in that the cattle are gently shifted from one place to another rather than being herded anonymously .
15 As originally disclosed by the Guardian , the estimated value of the tax concessions alone offered at one point during the negotiations was close to £35 million , while the European Commission was led to believe that BAe would benefit by only £25 million from the easing of tax restrictions .
16 The principle underlying this treatment method is the certainty that the central nervous system is capable of recovering function despite being damaged : any lesion in the brain , such as a blood clot , only interferes with one part of the brain , while other parts of the brain , plus the spinal cord , are left undamaged .
17 In such industries the products literally flow from one process to the next , but , unlike in the mass production of individual products , this process is continuous for weeks or months on end .
18 In 1816 she satirizes the rambling , retrospective structure of the Gothic novel , producing a satiric plan for one such story , where the scene constantly shifts from one set of people to another , and the greater part of the first volume is taken up with a narration , by the heroine 's father , of past events in his various life .
19 She was merely coping with one thing after another , not achieving .
20 Is video better suited to one stage of a lesson rather than another ?
21 Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time .
22 He 's only charged with one offence of criminal deception at the moment .
23 He 's only charged with one offence of criminal deception at the moment .
24 I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School .
25 In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head .
26 The Seasiders have only appeared in one final in their success-starved history and that was 55 years ago .
27 As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge .
28 With a little knowledge , ingenuity , and the help of local authority staff , these definitions ( all taken from one inventory of 1717/18 ) , and others of like kind , can be translated into probable floor plans .
29 But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours .
30 This vaccination is extremely effective but it only guards against one type of meningitis Mothers should be aware of the symptoms because early diagnosis could mean the difference between life and death .
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