Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have found that molecules of oxygen ( 02 ) split up at different rates according to whether the molecule contains two atoms of oxygen-16 or one atom of oxygen-16 combined with another of the rarer oxygen-17 or oxygen-18 isotopes . |
| 2 | I mean if there are two or three days off during that or one day off you take for instance , as long as it 's fifteen working days . |
| 3 | The situation is different where one parent survives , however . |
| 4 | Individual letters are subject to more variation in cursive writing , depending upon the letters preceding and following it ( Eldridge et al , 1984 ; Wing , 1979 ) , and because it is not clear where one letter finishes and the next begins , a stage of segmentation is usually employed , which introduces more ambiguity . |
| 5 | Is it really clear where one letter finishes and another begins ? |
| 6 | You should do this only to compare one beer with another or one wine with another . |
| 7 | At their disposal were a ludicrously inadequate army and an administrative machine so primitive that one observer in the early eighteenth century alleged that the tiny Italian city-state of Lucca possessed a larger civil service than they . |
| 8 | It will accelerate moves towards quality labelling and higher standards , and despite the sensationalising of what is in fact a minor problem , Watchdog emphasised the good points of fishkeeping , showed an attractive tank and made it clear that one family at least had not been put off fishkeeping by their mishap . |
| 9 | He is also believed to be embarrassed that one person should be earning so much when the recession and heavy unemployment has badly affected Coventry and the surrounding area . |
| 10 | She described the events of the evening slowly , as if afraid that one word out of place would make Annie more sceptical than ever . |
| 11 | I am afraid that one day I 'll come to hate even my brothers and sisters . |
| 12 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 13 | Five important papers had died ( three Sundays , one daily and one London evening ) , with a total circulation of six million . |
| 14 | you pulled it down ad you got the various size bottles in this we got half and one ounce , here two ounce , further up three ounce . |
| 15 | The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham , and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles : some of the fences are soft privet , to be jumped through rather than over ; there are two natural brooks , including the Rivière de la Tribune — four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide ; and then there is Le Bullfinch , a rail , ditch and fence on top of a stone wall . |
| 16 | This was necessary because the nets were not very high and one rabbit caught midway between stakes would sag the net and allow other rabbits to escape over the top . |
| 17 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 18 | I reached Belle-Ile by ferry from the peninsula of Quiberon , after a seven-hour drive in 27-degree heat from the Paris airport that nothing on earth would induce me to repeat — though my two companions , one British and one French , conversed enthusiastically on opera , European politics , and structural anthropology . |
| 19 | Let's see what 's on this cos one day knock this cupboard are n't I ? |
| 20 | Indeed it is doubtful if one group can even be called local , since it is sponsored , promoted and financed by central government . |
| 21 | In the Cup , so much is down to luck of one kind or another and one flash of individual brillance can settle it . |
| 22 | It is one of those forms of crime which appear to be ‘ catching ’ , as a disease is communicated from one country to another and one continent to another , like the importation of smallpox from India into London . |
| 23 | But to have a multiple personality , in which one self may suddenly be overthrown by another and one mind may be torn in several different directions is sometimes so intolerable , I long for extinction . |
| 24 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 25 | The top ten suppliers identified by Ciba-Geigy were five Japanese , two Swiss , two German and one USA company . |
| 26 | The cause for this is not clear but one factor could be the higher proportion of miners who had had gastric surgery . |
| 27 | Every couple has to find for themselves where this balance lies and , to be frank , this can be hard for some because one partner 's idea of novelty is the other 's perception of tedium . |
| 28 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 29 | A new R. A. F. camp , to which I was duly sent , had just been opened and was still partly empty when one day a new batch of prisoners was announced . |
| 30 | It is possible that one day you will come back to Normandy . ’ |