Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
| 2 | ‘ What in the world are you two talking of ? ’ interrupted Rose , whose perplexed gaze had been going from one to the other . |
| 3 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 4 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 5 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 6 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 7 | And indeed within the greenbelt there are a number of settlements which we are sitting in one at the moment . |
| 8 | Several doors ran off it , two now open as prisoners were being moved from one to the other . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I am married , you see , mama had my governess explain to me about marriage — of what is expected of one in the marriage bed . ’ |
| 10 | If buckets are used to fill the pool , they can be counted and discussions about empty and full will develop as water is transferred from one to the other . |
| 11 | Having prepared the solution of label , place a drop of it in the manipulation chamber or dish , sufficiently far away from the drop of medium in which the injections will be carried out , to prevent the two coalescing when the injection pipette is passed from one to the other . |
| 12 | The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent . |
| 13 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 14 | Ward was looking from one to the other . |
| 15 | From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI . |
| 16 | Before the war , foods such as butter and cheese were given two layers of wrappers by the counter hand , but this was reduced to one under the restrictions . |
| 17 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 18 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 19 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 20 | She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel . |