Example sentences of "[adj] on one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room had one other chair , a red velvet-covered rocker , having massive springs and I well remember how , when sitting on this on one occasion , absent-mindedly put my hand on the bottom leg . |
| 2 | At first John imagined that this was relief food on its way to a Commissariat depot , for it was guarded by a large body of troops , about eighty infantry and fifty cavalry as well as two field guns and their crews — half on one bank , half on the other . |
| 3 | The pattern is clear on one side but worn on the other . |
| 4 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 5 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
| 6 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |
| 7 | Other items needed are : some plastic sandwich bags ( with wire-ties ) ; a roll of brown or black paper , smooth and glossy on one side at least ; a desk-lamp with a 25 watt bulb ; sticky tape ( Sellotape ) ; a small jar ; materials for making the support for the funnel ( see over ) ; some paper tissues ; a trowel ; a medium-sized water-colour paint-brush ; a hand-lens . |
| 8 | You 've got ta do thirty-six on one floor , thirty-six on another floor , and the next thing that you got is all the information together where all you 've got to do is put that , lots of those together and it 's er , it 's er a shuffling around procedure , is n't it ? |
| 9 | This promise he deliberately and ruthlessly broke , going out night after night in 1917 and hurling his load , punches , matrices and type , into the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge , 2 on one occasion missing a barge by inches . |
| 10 | He denied reports that he had laid down conditions for the withdrawal of his resignation , and said that the inquiry was " not dependent on one person " and would go on . |
| 11 | The prophylactic programmes outlined above are relatively costly in terms of drugs and labour but are currently the only methods available on farms where the enterprise is heavily dependent on one animal species . |
| 12 | ‘ The story is not dependent on one character . |
| 13 | With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey . |
| 14 | With promises of continuous association , transaction costs can be reduced especially when subcontractors are heavily dependent on one source of orders . |
| 15 | The idea behind this strategy was ‘ to spread the investment risk ’ so the company would not be ‘ dependent on one technology , one market ’ . |
| 16 | Nana remained seated on her stool in the dark front room , below the curling photograph of Queen Elizabeth that was pinned to the shelf that carried packets of Albion sugar , brown on one side , white on the other . |
| 17 | Former congressman Robert Garcia was sentenced to three years in prison on June 16 , having been convicted in October 1991 on one count of extortion in connection with the Wedtech scandal . |
| 18 | just as condensation will appear on a window which is warm on one side and cold on the other , so it will appear in the warm cavity of a house when it is very cold outside . |
| 19 | S 357(3) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 makes the position quite clear : ‘ Where interest is payable on more than one loan or treated as made to the borrower and the loans were made simultaneously , it should be treated as payable on one loan . ’ |
| 20 | D'Arcy said : ‘ Well , you can rest easy on one score , Pierre . |
| 21 | Julio Gonzalez , a 36-year-old Cuban , was charged on March 26 on one count of arson and 87 counts of murder . |
| 22 | NIGEL WAS GLAD ON ONE LEVEL TO HAVE SAVED HIMSELF TROUBLE by finishing with Eleanor . |
| 23 | One 30 was rare ; three on one day was unheard of . |
| 24 | So we had a laugh ov , well said he when he woke up , he said day one you can do three on one day ! |
| 25 | In July the government majority fell to three on one vote but this narrow margin produced better attendances on the government side ; Unionists therefore sent their MPs off to speak around the country " with an occasional rush to London to keep the Rads. there " . |
| 26 | Set up a high pile of paper , blank on one side . |
| 27 | Now you should all have a spare scrap of paper that 's blank on one side , out of my recycled paper box , okay . |
| 28 | There is a platform around it , natural on one side , made from the tree 's roots , and built round by brick on the other . |
| 29 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 30 | Until recently , the division used Lotus 1-2-3 to handle its consolidation : ‘ It was extremely flexible and reasonably quick , but it was very difficult to maintain and highly reliant on one person . ’ |