Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [pron] " 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 | When you 've got a staff of a thousand you do n't need everybody going around . |
| 7 | In the case of a 286 you usually need some special hardware — an expanded memory EMS or LIM board . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 10 | hierarchy : each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one ; |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My last question is more of a personal one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It were a bit of a nervous one like , but he actually laughed . |
| 15 | The carvings depict exotic ideas and discoveries — strange animals , flowers , trees and a round world instead of a flat one . |
| 16 | If you had ten out of a hundred you can cancel it have you done cancelling ? |
| 17 | One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah . |
| 18 | Yes I suppose I 've had ten points behind anybody else , but erm that 's not too bad , you know , out of a hundred it 's reasonable . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example , if you mix springs from an unlevelled One Ten with those of a levelled One Ten , the ride and handling is poor . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They now have a chance of a better one — but they need to be able to recognise that . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've heard of a better one in Hall Road , just as cheap . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Can anyone think of a better one maybe ? |
| 28 | The first decaffeinated tea to combine all the flavour of a traditional cup of tea with all the flavours of a modern one . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one . |