Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 2 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 3 | Something I 've noticed from your soloing is that you 're not afraid to stay on one note . |
| 4 | East Anglian RMT spokesman Peter King said BR employees were prepared to move from one part of the country to another to avoid compulsory redundancies . |
| 5 | The original Rome Treaty required that factors of production such as labour , capital and enterprise should be free to move from one state to another . |
| 6 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 7 | Everything , in fact , which it seemed almost impossible to find in one place in the City before . |
| 8 | A meat burger in a bun is easy to manage with one hand . |
| 9 | I find it easy to switch from one role to the other . |
| 10 | By analogy , it may be possible to walk from one point in hilly country to another by a path which is always level or uphill , and yet a straight line between the points would cross a valley . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The extend to which HNC/HND courses and degree courses can be integrated while still satisfying their own particular objectives is likely to vary from one subject area to another . |
| 14 | Mr Duff has looked at four possible open air venues but is likely to settle for one end of the Headlingley rugby pitch with 2,000 seats around the ring and the use of the stand . |
| 15 | How is a teacher or course-organiser to decide between one version and the other or , indeed , between these two versions and any other that a linguist might draw up ? |
| 16 | ASK WHAT HE 'S AFRAID OF , and he finds it hard to think of one thing . |
| 17 | How much rice are you supposed to have for one person ? |
| 18 | Could n't ha taken too long to learn at one minute thirty two seconds and |
| 19 | So the horse may be able to cope with one incident that provokes anxiety and stress ; but if two stressful incidents happen at the same time , the horse may be unable to cope and as a consequence refuse to eat or get colic . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've got a lady at the moment who was able to paint at one time , quite successfully . |
| 21 | Able to concentrate on one search at a time 1 |
| 22 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 23 | Defending champion Davies finished the day at nine-under-par to lead by one stroke from overnight leader Marie-Laure de Lorenzi , from France . |
| 24 | They had also hired a French teacher , whose name Robert was unable to remember from one day to the next . |
| 25 | But perhaps , more constructively , the results of this paper point the way to the appropriate modelling of economic behaviour when agents are not able to optimize for one reason or another . |
| 26 | Habits and patterns of work can become more disorganized : people may be unable to focus on one task because all the other things to be done keep crowding in ; at the end of a very busy day little seems to have been accomplished . |
| 27 | The user must be able to predict from one part of the semantic net what is likely to be in another , analogous part of the semantic net . |
| 28 | Er I remember one I remember one demonstration , we were able to er we were e employed you see , er we we did n't we did n't participate in the er in a national march , but what we were able to do on one occasion was er to raise enough money for one or two of us , for to er go to London by the train , and er be in Hyde Park when er the er the various contingents from e er from various areas er of London , marched er marched into er marched into Hyde Park . |
| 29 | Second , when making an assessment , information about what a child is able to do in one situation must necessarily form the basis of inferences about what a child might be able to do in other situations . |
| 30 | But , as broad-minded and liberal as they are , they are choosy and unlikely to hop from one bed to the next . |