Example sentences of "[adj] 's one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him . |
| 2 | Of the total , decommissioning the eight Magnox and five advanced gas-cooled power stations run by Nuclear Electric would cost £7,000 million , Scottish Nuclear 's one Magnox and two AGR stations £1,500 million , British Nuclear Fuels ' fuel treatment and reprocessing facilities £6,000 million , and the Atomic Energy Authority 's research and reprocessing facilities about £3,500 million . |
| 3 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 4 | We 're here , they 're there ; that 's one drawback . |
| 5 | But , he favoured her with what she could only perceive as a reassuring smile when , ‘ I 'm on my way to Mariánské Láznë myself , ’ he commented easily , ‘ so that 's one problem you can forget . ’ |
| 6 | That 's one skill thought about it , is n't there , there 's another idea that doing that is actually , has the opposite effect , but the only , you praise somebody , when you 're criticising , you say , well look you 've well anyway . |
| 7 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |
| 8 | No it 's er that 's one film I 'd never seen , but I 'd like to see . |
| 9 | Right , that 's one message that comes out of it . |
| 10 | do n't pre-judge it has got ta decide , you 've got ta decide your area , that 's one north , one south . |
| 11 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 12 | That 's one person I know where to find . ’ |
| 13 | Well it 's important to get his support so that 's one person that we can write to erm seek support . |
| 14 | Well , that 's one kind of civilisation ; maybe . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's one way of putting it … |
| 16 | That 's one way of describing his one man assault on the bookshops : more than a dozen volumes of aerial travel photography to date with at least seven more being worked on now , plus a wide selection of Italian magazine work in Genie Viaggi , Il Piacore , Expression and Autocapital . |
| 17 | That 's one way of doing it . |
| 18 | Well , I suppose that 's one way of putting it . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's one way of describing it , ’ Bernice said , but she could n't be bothered to come up with other , less half-hearted quips . |
| 20 | That 's one way of thinking of it . |
| 21 | But that 's one way round that 's possible . |
| 22 | I suppose that 's one way of putting it . |
| 23 | That 's one way of looking at it . |
| 24 | That 's one way to keep traders out . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's one way of looking at it , ’ said Sheila . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , that 's one way of putting it . |
| 27 | That 's one way . |
| 28 | That 's one way of doing it . |
| 29 | " That 's one way out of a dilemma . |
| 30 | And that 's one way by the way not a fifty mile round trip and all we say to everybody whichever company they go into , we say to everybody who sits in your position there |