Example sentences of "[vb base] one [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but some push button telephones send one as one pulse and two as two pulses |
| 2 | In the square I hear the schoolchildren enthusiastically chant one to fifty as I start a late afternoon walk away from the Pachas into the suyo of trigo cebada . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 4 | D' ya know when yo , d' ya know when you put one on each parcel |
| 5 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 6 | I mean we go round on a Saturday night and we come out stinking of smoke , cos they smoke one after another |
| 7 | Tuesday 's afternoon show one till five with Jenny . |
| 8 | To check that we have the correct total number of vibrational degrees of freedom , we count one for each a ( or b ) species vibration , and two for each e ( doubly degenerate ) vibration . |
| 9 | A median of two stones were found ( range one to six ) within the duct with a median size of 1.5 cm ( range 0.5–2.5 ) . |
| 10 | Diseases which cause our young only minor discomfort kill one in four children from Sierra Leone before their fifth birthday . |
| 11 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 12 | Hands in his clay-coloured raincoat , Gaily , myopic , bent down and read one at random , wonderingly . |
| 13 | Dinners — select one from each section , i.e. a starter , main course and dessert . |
| 14 | ( Cowper : The Task ) Individual dog-whelks , like those of all other sexually-reproducing species , vary one from another . |
| 15 | If not , give one to any of your friends who are teachers or to your local school . |
| 16 | Add one to this figure to give the total number of spaces , bearing in mind that one extra space will be needed to balance the heading at the sides . |
| 17 | I mean one in seven of our bookings now are long haul holidays , and a large percentage of those will be going to America , and again the exchange rate from the pound to the dollar helps us there . |
| 18 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 19 | The fear of suffocation that accompanies an asthmatic attack is understandable , but the anxiety itself can make the attack worse — or even bring one on unaided . |
| 20 | There groups of men along with youths over the bar mitzvah age of thirteen would gather at eight o'clock , and to the muttered accompaniment of the special blessings each would kiss his phylacteries , wind one around left arm , palm and second finger , encircle his forehead with the other , and then join in reciting the ritual prayers . |
| 21 | We get one for that . |
| 22 | They get one for that , they |
| 23 | ‘ Rational ’ — a word that can take on various meanings and get one into all sorts of trouble — is here being used to describe those models that ignore organizational behaviour and suggest that the decision-maker has near-perfect knowledge , power and insight , needing merely to conduct the necessary analysis and implement it . |
| 24 | Right and than , you get one over that . |
| 25 | Get one in that box ! |
| 26 | Now come on you lot of get one in this box ! |
| 27 | would ya ? , where would you get it ? , get one like that ? |
| 28 | Make an accurate drawing Now if you get one like this , |
| 29 | You get one after another eighteen lines and then one after another two . |
| 30 | He scored quite a few goals , I remember one in particular against Arsenal in some cup game in the dying seconds of extra time ( there was still long enough for Arsenal to equalise though ) . |