Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 3 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 4 | Never carry more than one-third of your body weight , and aim to carry about one quarter of it . |
| 5 | No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads . |
| 6 | There are also concerns about how realistic it is to expect directors , let alone auditors , to confirm for one year ahead of the date the accounts are approved that their company will be a going concern . |
| 7 | In this case it would always be advantageous to invest for one month at a time rather than for two months at one go . |
| 8 | He learned to sit after one day of clinic treatment . |
| 9 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 10 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 11 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 12 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 13 | The teacher explains that he will be asking the class to work as one group . |
| 14 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 15 | I 'm sure it 's going to come off one day . |
| 16 | If electrons are sent through the slits one at a time , one would expect each to pass through one slit or the other , and so behave just as if the slit it passed through were the only one there — giving a uniform distribution on the screen . |
| 17 | ‘ Was the horse killed for real ? ’ they wanted to know after one scene . |
| 18 | Or a bed into the smallest bedroom ; — A man from British Telecom trying to use one of those stupid modern phone boxes that are just little booths exposed to the weather ideally when he 's ringing up for details of something and trying to write with one hand while trying to stop the piece of paper blowing away . |
| 19 | And , just as it is unnatural to spend all one 's time hopping on one leg , going about with one eye permanently closed or trying to work with one hand tied behind the back , it is unnatural to be so unbalanced . |
| 20 | He entered the terminal building , then returned to stand with one hand on his haunch , the other sheltering his eyes to the right , then the left , where Delia Sutherland was sitting on her suitcase , unaccountably invisible to him . |
| 21 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 22 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 23 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 24 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 25 | I do n't know , maybe the time was better for making music than it is now , there was less touring , not this hysterical feeling that everyone needs to jump from one place to another , or the lure of too many good orchestras — maybe it 's true that there are now more good orchestras than good conductors . |
| 26 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 27 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | to examine the literature on the politics and institutional arrangements of the United Kingdom since the Act of Union with Scotland , the language and Churches question in Wales and through the Irish Question , to establish in one framework both integrative and disintegrative factors ; |
| 30 | It is as if strict legal considerations seem to pull in one direction , while supposedly practical policy considerations point in another . |