Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position emerging in Germany is interesting and in one sense rather disturbing . |
| 2 | Daniel ( ’ Robinson Crusoe ’ ) Defoe , after reaching Saltash , which he found to be in a state of decay , and travelling to Liskeard , which was more to his taste , wrote , ‘ In the neighbourhood of these towns are many pleasant seats of the Cornish gentry … they are the most sociable , generous and to one another the kindest neighbours that are to be found ’ . |
| 3 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 4 | During the 1970s for example , this proportion was around 19 per cent for manufacturing firms representing half the West German and about one third of UK or US levels . |
| 5 | The forms in the waiting-room were most uncomfortable and at one period she got up and began to walk about , apparently to the consternation of other people who , docilely , were also waiting for news . |
| 6 | Using St Catherine and Marina 's Church Hall in Hoylake , the children enjoyed noise games and sing-songs , puppet-making and on one day , a bouncy castle . |
| 7 | The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! |
| 8 | His face hardened and for one dreadful moment she thought he was going to turn away . |
| 9 | Each feeds off the other , each informs the other and the subsequent reactions are reciprocal and continuous rather than unilinear and in one direction . |
| 10 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |
| 11 | Therefore Judaism and Islam could be said to be in one sense polytheistic and in one sense monotheistic . |
| 12 | Diana was continually sick and at one point Mr Pinker and his fellow doctors considered performing an emergency caesarian operation . |
| 13 | In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point . |
| 14 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 15 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 16 | Our readings on various tanks in the office proved fascinating and in one case eye-opening . |
| 17 | Consider now a crack , say , two microns long and of one Ångström unit tip radius . |
| 18 | These can be short or long and with one of several headings . |
| 19 | Those words uttered by some political leaders would sound banal and from one or two others downright phoney . |
| 20 | Finding a permanent bassist proved difficult and at one point Gedge almost wrapped up the group completely . |
| 21 | The pirate was Orin Tredway , aged , bearded and with one ear raggedly sawn off . |
| 22 | The knees are bent as if one were riding a horse , with the feet parallel and about one yard apart . |
| 23 | Gall bladder contractility was present in nine of the 10 patients at follow up ; in two of these patients a non-contractile gall bladder had become contractile and in one patient , gall bladder contractility had been lost . |