Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 2 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 3 | The chill worked its way into her bones and she curled up , trying to preserve her warmth , knowing she was failing as her body became racked by one continuous shiver . |
| 4 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 5 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 6 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 7 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 8 | Chris Berry has received from one of this customers a black cake with white icing , black roses and the inscription ‘ Stuff the bank ’ . |
| 9 | LEE KONITZ Over the years , Konitz has developed into one of the most fluent and intelligent of contemporary improvisers , his light yet husky alto sound the perfect vehicle for his incisive lines . |
| 10 | The Alliss match was one of the highlights of an occasion which , since it started in 1985 , has developed into one of the finest events on the golfing calendar . |
| 11 | Conoca said : ‘ A leak has developed inside one well of the unmanned platform and gas is leaking up to the surface . |
| 12 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 13 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 14 | Once the killer has stumbled upon one cryptic individual , it quickly develops a ‘ searching image ’ and then finds others more easily . |
| 15 | As Britain falls into its deepest recession over fifty years the , since the recession began in nineteen ninety , the number of employees in industry has fallen by one million five hundred and fifty one thousand with a further three hundred and sixty two thousand self-employed forced into bankruptcy . |
| 16 | Its author , a historian who comes from former Yugoslavia but now lives in Britain , has gathered in one volume her writings published between 1981 and the end of 1991 . |
| 17 | From being among the dullest of Japan 's manufacturers , Nissan has blossomed into one of its most creative and capable . |
| 18 | The reader is urged to continue reading and so we find that Dickens has succeeded in one of the most difficult aspects of a novel — providing an exciting opening for it . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Labour has voted for one miserable saving — doubling pensioners ' concessionary fares . |
| 20 | I think that 's that absolutely horrific and that has come from one of the practice partners and not the actual himself . |
| 21 | NIGEL GOULD has looked at one centre — currently under financial threat — which helps protect young delinquents from themselves . |
| 22 | Don King : has won round one |
| 23 | Fossil agnathan groups , such as the heterostracans , anaspids and osteostracans were considered related to one or other of the modern types ( Fig. 2A , b ) . |
| 24 | Seefeld has grown into one of the Tyrol 's largest and most popular resorts , and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 25 | They now have Soviet-made SAM anti-aircraft rockets and AK-47 automatic rifles , and their air force has grown from one ancient DC-3 transport called the Rusty Pelican to a small fleet of light planes and copters … |
| 26 | Other statistics from the survey showed that the number of employees in the sector has grown by one per cent and the total wages bill of £628 million was a 4.5 per cent increase . |
| 27 | The league , which is the premier club cricket competition in the county , has operated with one division since its inception in 1972 and is organised into 1st XI , 2nd XI and 3rd XI competitions . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 29 | Herman Bosman , a friend of mine , has written about one of his regular clients , who has long resided in a mental hospital . |
| 30 | General Holland M. Smith , USMC , has written of one Pacific raid that ‘ it was a spectacular performance by ( the ) 2nd Marine Raider Battalion but it was a pure piece of folly . |