Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 2 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 3 | Throughout these painful exchanges , the King had remained at Sandringham ; it was not for the sovereign to intervene between one faction of the Cabinet and another . |
| 4 | And it seems to me there is no reason to suppose that because there are more houses , the propensity to move from one house to another declines . |
| 5 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 6 | Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself . |
| 7 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 8 | Stoicism replaces sentimentality , pragmatism is preferred to romance , and the need to survive from one season to the next overrides everything . |
| 9 | Now to Rugby Park , where Kilmarnock , after a superb start to the season , had the chance to go within one game of their previous best Premier League run of ten matches undefeated . |
| 10 | When two labels were inserted in the press with their grains at right-angles , any tendency for the paper to distort in one direction in preference to the other was neutralized . |
| 11 | For more definition in certain areas I allowed the cutter to stay in one place long enough to burn the surface of the timber . |
| 12 | But I 'll be back from Manchester in a year or so , and it 's the thing to do in one way , over here . |
| 13 | After only three years , however , he left the Corporation and the country to become for one year assistant director ( 1950–1 ) of the Canadian commercial journal , Fishing News . |
| 14 | As for Mr Gorbachev himself , he is desperate for the party to stay in one piece because he knows that , once on their own , neither hardliners nor reformers would be likely to want him as their leader . |
| 15 | Try and resist the temptation to concentrate on one area . |
| 16 | Assume that the time to move from one cylinder to the next is the same as the rotation time of the device , which applies for some disk devices . |
| 17 | The teacher explains that he will be asking the class to work as one group . |
| 18 | He was interested in how far Siward had taken his men back into the untouched part of the forest , where the clearing kept for the highway from Dunedin to the Forth crossing had encouraged the fire to turn to one side , helped by the slight change of wind . |
| 19 | Cloud will gradually disperse and clear areas will appear , allowing the temperature to fall to one degree celsius , that 's thirty four degrees fahrenheit , with a widespread ground frost and few mist patches in the valleys . |