Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been one for a long time and that 's all I can say . |
| 2 | You 've always been one for a quiet life , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 4 | This change has not necessarily been one for the better . |
| 5 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 6 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 7 | And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 9 | In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders . |
| 10 | Those who suppose that a millennium is a millennium is a millennium will see that the distinction between Owen 's and O'Brien 's to be one without a practical difference ; and put a question-mark against the doctrine on which it stands . |
| 11 | One important caveat to the E. F. Loftus and Burns study is that the test of memory could be considered to be one for a peripheral detail . |
| 12 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 13 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 14 | In particular there will be one with a minimum number of states , which is the one represented by the dawg . |
| 15 | In captivity synspilum will eat just about any of the normal cichlid foods — earthworms , woodlice , beefheart , liver , chicken , fish , mussel , prawn ; obviously the foods chosen should be of a size suited to the fish , and the diet should contain a high level of vegetable material cooked peas , scalded lettuce or spinach , duckweed or other aquatic plants ; if a pelleted food is to form part of the diet this should be one with a high vegetable content — pond pellets are often suitable . |
| 16 | I mean they must be one in a thousand , too , are n't they ? ’ |
| 17 | The showhouse will be one in the middle price bracket . |
| 18 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 19 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 20 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |
| 21 | There is one beside a cinematographic house in Leicester Square . |
| 22 | In Powys , on the other hand , there is one for every 590 people . |
| 23 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 24 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 25 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 26 | Another way is to catch a bus from Bishop 's Castle to Newtown or Shrewsbury ( for the sake of the argument , suppose that there is one at a suitable time ) . |
| 27 | A closed question is one with a fixed number of alternative replies . |
| 28 | The Red Panda is one with a rich red glossy fur on the back and dense dark fur beneath . |
| 29 | In the case of the Flexifoil , the wing section or aerofoil is one with a distinct reflex . |
| 30 | Another type of pattern that always makes me think carefully about how I 'm going to position it is one with a vertical element and which is asymmetrical for example pattern 4–29 ( Fig 6 ) . |