Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 2 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 3 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 4 | Only one group use it to any marked degree in navigation . |
| 5 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 6 | Intimacy means allowing one person to see you with all your defences down , stripped of any masks . |
| 7 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 8 | My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life . |
| 9 | One graph has lots of possible pictures . |
| 10 | As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’ |
| 11 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 12 | Fashions come and fashions go , but one style repeating itself with enormous popularity is that of the Edwardian era . |
| 13 | We need that one performance to get us over this losing streak . |
| 14 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 15 | ‘ I take no delight in death , Lewis , and if one thing worries me above all else it is accidents — the random concourse of atoms in the void , as Epicurus used to say . ’ |
| 16 | Paying by direct debit is one way to assist us in that aim . |
| 17 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 18 | The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy . |