Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to cope with one of these legs being shaky and under pressure but not two at the same time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 3 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 4 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 5 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 6 | It is very interesting to look at one of the more recent leaflets brought out by the government , called Helping you back to work — Information for claimants . ‘ |
| 7 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |
| 8 | To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died . |
| 9 | On another occasion he was prepared to decide against one of his own retainers . |
| 10 | On another occasion he was prepared to decide against one of his own retainers . |
| 11 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 12 | I deter anybody who 'd every wanted to get on one of the buses . |
| 13 | ( Rule of Life No. 6 : be prepared to survive on one extra pair of socks and knickers and a spare shirt . |
| 14 | Something I 've noticed from your soloing is that you 're not afraid to stay on one note . |
| 15 | East Anglian RMT spokesman Peter King said BR employees were prepared to move from one part of the country to another to avoid compulsory redundancies . |
| 16 | The original Rome Treaty required that factors of production such as labour , capital and enterprise should be free to move from one state to another . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Endangered Wildlife Trust said : ‘ It would be suicidal to interfere with one of Namibia 's primary sources of revenue — its wonderful and unique wildlife heritage — to overcome what we hope is a short-term problem of drought . ’ |
| 18 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 19 | Until there is a substantial increase — indicating scarcity and demand — the fast reactor seems set to remain in one of the more exclusive suburbs of El Dorado . |
| 20 | Everything , in fact , which it seemed almost impossible to find in one place in the City before . |
| 21 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 22 | Drink and football are linked by such a strong umbilical cord in Scottish culture that it is virtually impossible to talk about one without the other encroaching . |
| 23 | A meat burger in a bun is easy to manage with one hand . |
| 24 | I find it easy to switch from one role to the other . |
| 25 | ‘ I am fortunate to live on one of the clouds in his paintings , with the art I love so much ’ |
| 26 | I am fortunate to live on one of the clouds in his paintings , with the art I love so much ’ . |
| 27 | 281 cases are not easy to reconcile with one another . |
| 28 | It emphasizes that totally comprehensive rational analysis and consequent implementation extending right across a major corporate group is completely impossible to achieve in one brief space of time . |
| 29 | A more powerful figure it would not be possible to evoke from one of Leonard 's background , for it captures a significance which the kite could not : that man is only one of many free creatures , subject with them all to a higher power and influence . |
| 30 | By analogy , it may be possible to walk from one point in hilly country to another by a path which is always level or uphill , and yet a straight line between the points would cross a valley . |