Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In the same issue , Rebecca West 's last salvo appeared after a final one from Eliot . |
2 | But what racing could give after one good day , it could take away after a bad one . |
3 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
4 | A survey of more than 1,000 employees found that 84 per cent do not think the need to look after a loved one will ever affect them . |
5 | The daughter has finally made a good marriage , after a dodgy one . |
6 | With the best will in the world I can not imagine that a meat man would have the time , or that an un-horsy policeman would risk life and limb to scrub the mud from the hooves of every animal which roughly fits the description of a stolen one . |
7 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
8 | hierarchy : each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one ; |
9 | It seems that the idea is to get rid of the 14 Minor County sides as quickly as possible , but the time has come to make cricket 's oldest limited-overs competition into a proper knockout contest , instead of a half-baked one as at present . |
10 | My last question is more of a personal one . |
11 | As to the loss of 40 per cent of the infrastructure profits of new and existing unitised with-profits , unit linked and non with-profits business , the theory is that a 60 per cent stake in an expanding cake is better than a 100 per cent slice of a stagnant one . |
12 | It were a bit of a nervous one like , but he actually laughed . |
13 | The carvings depict exotic ideas and discoveries — strange animals , flowers , trees and a round world instead of a flat one . |
14 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
15 | Few , if any , effective interventions come without any risk of harm — but in preventive medicine the risk may be very small , whether it is a small risk of a serious adverse effect or a larger risk of a mild one . |
16 | For example , if you mix springs from an unlevelled One Ten with those of a levelled One Ten , the ride and handling is poor . |
17 | Your direction in life could be affected by what may seem a rather fateful set of circumstances or through the influence of a certain someone . |
18 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
19 | They now have a chance of a better one — but they need to be able to recognise that . |
20 | ‘ I 've heard of a better one in Hall Road , just as cheap . ’ |
21 | It was not a satisfactory solution of what came to be called the Southwark Bridge Mystery , but no one could think of a better one . |
22 | Can anyone think of a better one maybe ? |
23 | The first decaffeinated tea to combine all the flavour of a traditional cup of tea with all the flavours of a modern one . |
24 | Evidently there is something odd about the expression imperator noster divus Marcus , for noster is generally used of the current emperor , and divus of course only of a deceased one . |
25 | Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one . |
26 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
27 | The object is to establish the change in hours supply to the labour market ta ; H as a result of a change in wages δW , which , other things equal , generates an income effect ( y ) and a substitution effect ( s ) , as follows ( assuming that the only tax is the introduction of a proportional one on labour income and it is this that is causing the change in W : |
28 | Bit of a frosty one . |
29 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
30 | The annual accounts for that year include the sale of a dead horse for fourteen shillings , and the sale of a live one for fifteen pounds . |