Example sentences of "[be] one [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked .
2 There is one rounded apical papilla flanked on each side by up to 5 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is large , rectangular and opercular .
3 There is one rounded apical papilla , sometimes two , flanked on each side by 4–5 rounded or pointed apical papillae .
4 A hypotactic sentence is one containing subordinating conjunctions , such as if , because , although .
5 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked by 3–4 oral papillae , occasionally as many as 5 or 6 on each side .
6 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3–4 rugose oral papillae , although in some specimens thee maybe more giving the appearance of a double row .
7 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4 pointed slightly rugose oral papillae ; Mortensen ( 1927 ) reports that there may be as many as 8 each side .
8 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3–5 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is long and rectangular .
9 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is leaf shaped with a rounded outer edge .
10 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is long with its free and widened and squared off .
11 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3 conical , pointed oral papillae .
12 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3–4 oral papillae ; the free end of the distalmost one may be widened .
13 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3–4 blunter oral papillae .
14 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 3 oral papillae , broadening progressively from spine-like to block-like .
15 There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 4–5 block-like oral papillae .
16 The second oral tentacle pore arises superficially outside the mouth and is open without a tentacle scale , except in juveniles where there is one pointed spine-like scale arising on the adoral shield .
17 Michael put on his best voice and said , ‘ And what is one reading this week ? ’
18 All it means to me is one owes two pound more than other one .
19 Here is one to cover 11 selections and cuts the number of lines from a full perm of 8 from 11 ( 165 ) to a mere 39 !
20 It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet .
21 This development is one utilising pictorial skills as distinct from enactive skills .
22 If there is one overriding golden rule with feeding any plant , but especially with roses , it is the meaning of the old saying ‘ you can lead a horse to water , but you ca n't make it drink ’ .
23 Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home .
24 I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by .
25 He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy .
26 and well they used to make , and they made these they made kind of lots of tin things you know like different sizes and I can nae just describe what they , there was one had big whiskers down his face but er the rest was clean shaven , you ken .
27 But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism .
28 There was one crippled young girl did not get out in time and had her hair and neck and face badly burned .
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