Example sentences of "[adv] take one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
| 2 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 3 | Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down ! |
| 4 | ‘ It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily . |
| 5 | It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath . |
| 6 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
| 7 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 8 | But , it only takes one car ! |
| 9 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 10 | Er it 's no good saying you 'll turn down the central heating and you 'll only take one holiday instead of two , that 's not really the purpose of retirement , and I think you 've got to be objective about what you 're doing with this . |
| 11 | It would only take one phone call to blow her cover . |
| 12 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 13 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 14 | Farrs fronted Brown Street ; on the left hand side were the sliding glass doors to the showroom , just large enough to take one vehicle . |
| 15 | Once it had been a railway shed , indeed the tracks were still in it , later , in a period when Gilbey 's Gin had used the building as a warehouse , a balcony had been added , which was only wide enough to take one person . |
| 16 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 17 | He would fast frequently , only take one meal a day , and would rise at one or two o'clock in the morning to pray . |
| 18 | anyway and everybody just takes one look at it and after everybody in the house has taken one look at it it gets thrown in the bin , if it lasts that long . |
| 19 | But he wo n't take anyone on full time for the simple fact that just takes one guy off the dole and and makes his life good . |
| 20 | I was interested in my work and I did not take one day 's holiday during the next two years . |
| 21 | Can I not take one step without falling on my face ? ’ |
| 22 | If I could just take one example to illustrate this . |
| 23 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 24 | Ludo and I just took one side each and approached every table with snapshots of Tamsin . |
| 25 | Technically , Smart gave his delight in varied versification free play by making use of twenty-five different stanza forms , generally taking one stanza for each verse of every psalm , and using neologisms , puns , aphorisms and turns of wit as he found opportunity . |
| 26 | And fast bowler Andrew Caddick , despite just taking one wicket , showed enough hostility and character to be given an extended trial . |
| 27 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
| 28 | She had already taken one A level in law and had another to take in history as well . |
| 29 | Ambulance crews had already taken one patient from the pile-up , on the Uxbridge Road in Slough , Berkshire , to the town 's Wexham Park Hospital . |
| 30 | An official has just to take one look , and know she 'll give in at once . |