Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Western world annually produces about one billion tonnes of industrial waste . |
| 2 | But where the qualification is the doing of something of value to the seller , and where the qualification only suffices for one sale and must be reacquired before another sale , I find it hard to regard the repeated acquisitions of the qualification as anything other than parts of the consideration for the sales . |
| 3 | The principle underlying this treatment method is the certainty that the central nervous system is capable of recovering function despite being damaged : any lesion in the brain , such as a blood clot , only interferes with one part of the brain , while other parts of the brain , plus the spinal cord , are left undamaged . |
| 4 | In 1816 she satirizes the rambling , retrospective structure of the Gothic novel , producing a satiric plan for one such story , where the scene constantly shifts from one set of people to another , and the greater part of the first volume is taken up with a narration , by the heroine 's father , of past events in his various life . |
| 5 | Andre Emmerich has realist William Bailey 's newest exactly-so tablescapes in one of his spaces and in the other works by the eminent British painter William Scott . |
| 6 | But if there is no question of the animal 's being aware of this harm in prospect , and if it is coupled with a painless death , then the question merely reverts to one of our own justification for the practice . |
| 7 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 8 | This vaccination is extremely effective but it only guards against one type of meningitis Mothers should be aware of the symptoms because early diagnosis could mean the difference between life and death . |
| 9 | The detective was philosophical : time , in this world at least , only flows in one direction and can never be summoned back . |
| 10 | Moreover , he only works on one picture at a time and only by natural daylight . |
| 11 | Each helper only works with one handicapped person . |
| 12 | It is reckoned that Step 1 normally takes about one year to grasp and accept in its full significance . |
| 13 | The normal debenture , however , is very different from a single mortgage of land. , It generally consists of one of a series of securities ranking pari passu with each other . |
| 14 | Romans and Jews mill confusingly in the background , like extras on a film set , and if one has any concrete image of them at all , it generally derives from one or another Hollywood spectacular — Pilate complete with Brooklynese accent . |
| 15 | As with Elizabethan concepts of society , where each man was supposed to labour in his vocation and place , each character usually belongs to one medium and only moves out of it for special and clearly defined purposes , love , hate , respect , mockery , dissimulation , self-revelation . |
| 16 | Grasses then begin to colonise the ground and after 10 years , and the appearance gradually turns to one of open scrub ( above right ) . |
| 17 | Each issue of CIRCLS usually concentrates on one main topic , with items of news included as relevant , and is sent out with regular NLSLS mailings to libraries throughout Scotland . |
| 18 | The bell usually tolls for one of the big championship teams on cup day … this is cricket 's FA Cup … where the small teams the non leaguers get a chance to take on the big boys … the pros … |
| 19 | ‘ She is paid to help the housemaid in her work , and always sews in one of those rooms . ’ |
| 20 | Where previously they would on occasion lose direction and splutter to a halt , now their relentless barrage seamlessly moves from one epic song to another . |
| 21 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 22 | Wittgenstein refers to ‘ the idea that language always functions in one way , always serves the same purpose : to convey thoughts — which may be about houses , pains , good and evil , or anything else you please . ’ |
| 23 | It usually flips from one range to another , but , but mainly , there 's a point where the function does n't exist . |
| 24 | Cos it comes in , it seems a lot cos it always comes in one big lump . |
| 25 | He probably puts on one green sock , one red . |
| 26 | On this view , theories are deductive systems of thought in which " facts " are deduced from higher order principles , much like geometricians effect a proof by showing how the conclusion logically follows from one or two general premises or postulates . |
| 27 | The voice probably comes from one of the two English radio operators attached to the French Commando . |
| 28 | Shaun Devenney played off three at the beginning of last season and now plays to one , his year 's successes including the Leinster Boys ' and the Mark Ryder Under-22 championships and the Ulster Junior Foursomes . |
| 29 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 30 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |