Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 2 | A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up . |
| 3 | ( Thank heavens calories are cumulative , and the damage done one day can be countermanded by the next . |
| 4 | Vice versa , the proportion given one week or less notice was 54 per cent for the unskilled and only 12 per cent for the professionals and managers . |
| 5 | I would urge the panel to make a decision which enables us to go down a road of logical decision making to get the issue resolved one way or the other . |
| 6 | This is very brief and solely for the record , Chairman , at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry the City Council made one objection , and one objection only , in respect of sites , and that was a site that straddled the York Selby boundary , that was there only expressed concern on sites specific objection , one site in the entire plan . |
| 7 | Stones from one bomb damaged one Hurricane . |
| 8 | It had looked too easy at first , but the goals would n't come , and in the end the match finished one goal apiece ; our reporter at the game , Nick Harris . |
| 9 | It was almost as if she was surrounded by a choir , with each person allocated one word , but so well rehearsed that the sentences flowed seamlessly along . |
| 10 | Evolution gone one stage further , the next logical step of the most intelligent animal on earth about to go out to the Universe . |
| 11 | While baptism marked one rite de passage , death and burial marked another , and again the Church tried to set out appropriate actions . |
| 12 | The new Constitution allocated one seat to a representative of Rotuma island . |
| 13 | One theory is the pilot took one risk too many on a low level flight and hit the ground . |
| 14 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 15 | Rabuka , who in May 1987 had ousted the civilian government elected one month earlier , was appointed Prime Minister on June 2 and named a coalition government on the following day . |
| 16 | So I would be able to respond from information received one evening , be able to produce the press release , press a button and hopefully it will go down the line if the technology will allow that . |
| 17 | Secondly , it means that the person who has been arrested under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 by a constable without warrant has the matter resolved one way or the other within 24 hours , or sooner if practicable , subject to the exceptions of Christmas Day , Good Friday and Sundays , and the prosecution , if they wish a remand in custody or the imposition of more stringent conditions , must make sure that they have within that time period sufficient material to place before the justice to enable the justice to form one of the opinions set out in section 7(5) . |
| 18 | I hope you all have a nice birthday and many more to come now last week the flower box raised one pound forty two , the raffle four pound forty six and the bring and buy two pound sixty making a total of eight pound fourteen |
| 19 | was a bit drunk one afternoon at about four o'clock and he said , ‘ If it was just an ‘ oul book we could have done something for you but with marrying this foreign woman you 're a hopeless case . ’ |
| 20 | Convention given one month 's grace |
| 21 | This would be a natural aim for any researcher to achieve , and in order to obtain a full range of reading ability Marshall and Clock recruited one population from a community college , and another from undergraduates at Cornell University . |
| 22 | Using this technique required one camera pointed at the live set , another pointed at an easel bearing a large , mounted photograph a caption slide . |