Example sentences of "[conj] one [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting how often people get locked into a disagreeing ‘ spiral ’ where one disagreement breeds another which , in turn , breeds another and so on . |
| 2 | The law does not seek to prohibit all asymmetric trades ( trades where one party has more information than another ) ; nor should it . |
| 3 | These are exchanged on every occasion where one businessman meets another . |
| 4 | Consequently , at one extreme , where one female has several males , she has ‘ won ’ . |
| 5 | It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication . |
| 6 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
| 7 | It is also possible that one organization adopts all five simultaneously ! |
| 8 | As the management will be aiming for maximum room and bed occupancy practice and experience will train the receptionist how to plan bookings on the conventional chart ( Fig. 3.11 ) so that one letting follows another and no gaps are left unnecessarily . |
| 9 | And while not everyone can detect the tonal nuances of brass and chrome jackplugs it 's as plain as the selector switch on your ‘ 62 Strat that one mag has more body , more highs and more sustain than a patent-applied-for Shredbucker . |
| 10 | It is hardly surprising , then , that one observer thought this such ‘ a scene of riot , confusion , destruction of property , and injury to persons which would have been a disgrace to a savage land ’ . |
| 11 | Although one manufacturer described this as being the oldest technology , monocrystalline cells provide the most efficient conversion from light to electricity at 13 or 14 per cent . |
| 12 | Cost per pupil may be the same , although one authority spends much more on teachers and less on books and equipment . |
| 13 | There is more than one way to tackle this problem , but a very widely used and mathematically elegant technique called multi-dimensional scaling can help us . |
| 14 | As will subsequently become evident from the discussion of Swedish developments , there is more than one way to achieve this particular outcome . |
| 15 | You may need more than one sequence to cover all the points about any one piece of apparatus . |
| 16 | One College and one Polytechnic offered this with five staff , of whom four had this as their main concern . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to keep costs to a minimum and one way to do that is to have driver-operated buses on some routes , ’ says Morag Petrie , press officer for London buses . |
| 18 | And if er , I mean one of these girls is worth maybe three others , you know , they 're all erm , they 'll , and still clear the shopfloor , get them downstairs , and sweep up for you in say , four hours , and one person does that while the rest . |
| 19 | They were singing , and one couple executed some jive steps on the pavement . |
| 20 | With only one lorry and one car to supply all the needs of the two dozen overseas staff there was no way to escape other people or one 's own negative traits which could become glaringly obvious living in such confined quarters . |
| 21 | Let's see what 's on this cos one day knock this cupboard are n't I ? |
| 22 | The game continues until one player has all 48 beads — or it is time for supper ! |
| 23 | If one person performed all these tasks then they were defined by the Tavistock group as having a ‘ composite work role ’ . |
| 24 | Firstly , this gives you greater flexibility in distributing the data around the devices and directories on your system , and secondly , it is useful administratively — for instance , if one project finds that LIFESPAN is giving them data corruption alarms , you will need only to validate their particular Storage Directory , rather than the whole database . |
| 25 | If one form occurs more than its alternants , that is a reason to suspect it is unmarked with respect to them . |
| 26 | If one solicitor instructs another on behalf of his client he becomes personally liable for that other 's costs , unless some other arrangement has been agreed . |
| 27 | This means that if one sibling helps another to survive and reproduce then it is ensuring the further spread of its genes within future generations . |
| 28 | Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends , suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined . |
| 29 | Matching objects one — to — one is a technique for checking whether one set has more or fewer objects than another , or the same amount . |
| 30 | As one course followed another we began to wonder whether the meal would ever end . |