Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They are situated side by side in the square type of pod , or one above the other in the oblong pods ( usually in two columns ) .
2 An irregularly folded cloth , or one with the folds bunched , reduces the contact area and thus efficiency .
3 The ideal of the initiate is to become a ‘ star ’ or one with the Gods ; to achieve union with the natural forces which created him or her .
4 Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of
5 He knew , in short , precisely when to take two steps to the right , or one to the left .
6 And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung .
7 In pairs marching side by side , or one behind the other ?
8 She may have had problems over a similar product , or one from the same manufacturer , before .
9 This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole .
10 ‘ Both at the same time , or one after the other ? ’ he said .
11 He used to own a garage , that one with the big car showrooms on the High Street .
12 There was only that one with the bit of enamel chipped off .
13 In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt .
14 Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim .
15 Which comes to , so one over the resistance is that so the resistance is turn it upside down , a hundred over three .
16 Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge .
17 Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes .
18 The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting .
19 I have not noted any particular problems with C cells ; this is because they are usually installed side by side , rather than one above the other .
20 McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’
21 Portadown-based Crowe , a close season signing by Bangor , embarks on his third successive European mission wiser in more ways than one from the Antwerp experience .
22 Different standards may be environmentally appropriate : a smoking chimney in the Australian outback does less harm than one in the Ruhr valley .
23 A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct .
24 The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state .
25 Clive Barnes — later to become one of the ‘ Butchers of Broadway ’ , as critic for the New York Times wrote : ‘ Although One Over The Eight is described as a ‘ new revue ’ do not for a moment be fooled .
26 Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab .
27 There 's two methods of policing , one for the decent people and one for the trouble-makers .
28 is planning to appoint two new Travelling Secretaries , one for the North and one for the South of the U.K. ( excluding Northern Ireland ) .
29 On the top floor of the house there were three tiny rooms , one for boxes , one for the Allen boys , and one for the five Allen daughters .
30 A fine Italianate palazzo was built in Edwardian times , and by then , as in so many other places , it was in fact two stations that were required , one suburban and one for the main line .
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