Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since individual media are competing with one another this is , perhaps , hardly surprising ; but where much of the research is done under the auspices of joint committees representing agencies , advertisers , and media it is slightly frustrating that so little seems to have been achieved . |
| 2 | The larger agencies supplying secretarial and office staff in the metropolitan areas , primarily because they are competing with one another for scarce labour , are increasingly offering the sort of fringe benefits associated with employment . |
| 3 | Hundreds of gypsies are gathering for one of the biggest horse fairs of the year . |
| 4 | The Trust surveyed 83 species , and found that 33 are nesting between one and 22 days early , in a trend which started in the mid-1970s . |
| 5 | In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " . |
| 6 | ‘ I am meeting in one hour with a senior Air Force expert , ’ said Stannard . |
| 7 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 8 | Monica and her baby are living in one shitty room , with no place she can cook or anything . |
| 9 | And after losing the family home two weeks ago Angie , husband Bill and their other two children are living in one room at a bed and breakfast hotel . |
| 10 | Those in the Kremlin ( which houses the presidential administration ) are pushing for one last attempt at compromise with parliament . |
| 11 | Meet the Brittonioni Brothers , a couple of avante garde movie makers , never happier than when they 're jetting from one international festival to another . |
| 12 | But in the main we are looking for er somewhere in the region of er hundred and eighty pounds per per per deal and we 're looking for one of those a day average . |
| 13 | So we 're looking for one person . |
| 14 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 15 | And er , you know , I know we 're looking at one particular committee . |
| 16 | we 're going like one , two , three down |
| 17 | I du n no what we 're doing on one of them . |
| 18 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 19 | I mean biologists , when they 're talking to one another , are , by and large , talking about Darwin and that 's what I 've been trying to do . |
| 20 | This Friday yeah , and we 're leaving at one fifteen , there 's a coach |
| 21 | Manifestly you think you 're , you 're , you 're thinking about one school , whereas in reality you 're thinking about quite a different one . |
| 22 | You 're working in one of the , of the less affluent parts of Harlow are n't you ? |
| 23 | You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off . |
| 24 | ’ I am waiting until one of the spaceships orbiting this planet passes over your position . |
| 25 | Celtic are going through one of their worst times since winning the European cup in nineteen sixty seven . |
| 26 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 27 | Er I mean y y the i if you are moving from one society to another , then obviously er you will be charged , and there will be the two hundred and fifty pound fixing fee , plus whatever else . |
| 28 | Beginners often make the mistake of looking down when they are moving from one position to another , thus breaking the cardinal first rule of combat , which is never to take your eyes off your opponent . |
| 29 | Admittedly , the animals in the Withington mosaic are lively ; but they are running not springing ( as at Newton St. Loe ) , and are moving in one direction only . |
| 30 | Throughout the day , we are travelling from one place to another — sometimes round the corner , sometimes round the world — on foot , by car , bus , train , taxi , ship , horse or plane . |