Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 2 | Only when things go wrong is the veil of privacy which normally conceals the workings of married life lifted , and usually in the hope of discovering that what is happening in one marriage is not , after all , so dissimilar from what is happening in others . |
| 3 | Stark is looking for one more win |
| 4 | The HRBMOA , which encompasses not only all the major marina and boatyard operators , but a great many other boat-related businesses on the River Hamble , is acting with one accord in this matter , despite the fact that their individual interests and aspirations are all completely different . |
| 5 | FYT is acting as one of the Congress Partners . |
| 6 | He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry . |
| 7 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ken is a very talented and composed young player who is developing into one of the game 's best , ’ said Davis . |
| 9 | Why all of them if he 's searching for one slave ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This is turning into one of those mediaeval disputes which split hairs endlessly , ’ he said . |
| 11 | d ) If while the aircraft is turning in one direction the pilot moves his head in another , perhaps to select a switch or alter a setting , the stimulation of the balance mechanism of the ears , in the two planes of rotation at the same time , can produce a spontaneous stimulation of the balance mechanism in a third plane of rotation , with completely confusing messages being then sent to the brain . |
| 12 | Greg is lying on one of the Palace 's luxuriant couches , gesticulating wildly and fixing me with a stare that is part ultimate artistic earnestness and part repressed pathological violence . |
| 13 | However , biotechnology is growing into one of the largest research fields of the nineties . |
| 14 | No one can deny that professional tennis is going through one of those periods when a sure thing in the betting sense is a short cut to bankruptcy . |
| 15 | Seve Ballesteros is going through one of the worst slumps of his career . |
| 16 | The Johnny Mathis ‘ A Child is Born ’ disc also avoided this by fudging the identity of the infant — ‘ The world is waiting for one child … black , white , yellow ? … no one knows . ’ |
| 17 | It 's going at one hundred and forty pounds the lot , at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 18 | Ter Terry 's going on one stage |
| 19 | Erm I also have a letter er from a Kate , I 'm not sure from which school she goes to , but she 's fourteen and she 's going to one of the local schools , |
| 20 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 21 | it 's going into one lane |
| 22 | it 's going into one lane |
| 23 | That 's going in one direction of building up . |
| 24 | Wait until the needle settles and is pointing in one direction . |
| 25 | Asymmetric refers to the problems caused when the aircraft is flying on one engine , ie asymmetric thrust . |
| 26 | ‘ The breaks are probably where the mobile is moving from one cell to another and he is searching through to catch up with the conversation again in the next cell . |
| 27 | ‘ And besides , ’ Anna put in , ‘ considering that Sam 's idea of exercise is moving from one chair to another , he probably would n't even make the bosky glades ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I understand that your brother , Ernie , is staying in one of your vans . ’ |
| 29 | This may look like a minute , but it 's not a minute , and it 's getting less one with every line . |
| 30 | Of the hero/narrator , Andre , she observes : ‘ … he is maturing into one of those young men , familiar in fiction , whose very presence impels women to remove their clothing … |