Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn . |
| 2 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 3 | Then they will baptise those they evangelise in the name of the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit ( 28:19 ) , but in the meantime they are given one trial run , if we may so call it , when they are sent out on a missionary journey ( Matt. 10:20 ) . |
| 4 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 5 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 6 | In any event , they are adjusted one way or the other at the next meter reading . |
| 7 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 8 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 9 | And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin . |
| 10 | On another occasion , after the sessions for the recording of Der Rosenkavalier had been completed one January afternoon in 1982 , I recall him rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic in two works by Tchaikovsky , the Sixth Symphony and the Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet . |
| 11 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 12 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 13 | Those S 2 students who survive into second year ( i.e. S' 2 ) are interviewed one year later at T 2 . |
| 14 | Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other . |
| 15 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 16 | As soon as you 're settled one way or another I 'm out of it . ’ |
| 17 | Staff are told one thing but , having a Banker 's nose for the truth , they believe another . |
| 18 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 19 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 20 | Law by convention is never complete , because new issues constantly arise that have not been settled one way or the other by whatever institutions have conventional authority to decide them . |
| 21 | As you grow older , some of those uncertainties — such as whether or not you are lovable — are settled one way or another . |
| 22 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 23 | He has been refused one review already . |
| 24 | In this sense prices in period t are sticky : they are set one period in advance and are then unresponsive to the level of demand which actually occurs in period t . |
| 25 | In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene . |
| 26 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 27 | Easily Accessible : Walks spiral out in every direction , including the Pennine Way , which runs across Black Hill and can be joined one mile from the house . |
| 28 | But he put these thoughts to the back of his mind now , with a silent promise that they would be uttered one day soon . |
| 29 | ‘ Something has to be resolved one way or the other , ’ Cabochon said , expending a vast amount of mental energy mustering concern for the group . |
| 30 | Now consider T 5 ; the 252 robins that die aged 5 live a total of 252÷2 robin-years , to which must be added one year of life for each of the 63 birds that survive at least another year plus their total life beyond their next birthday ( i.e. T 6 ) . |