Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ackroyd 's strange experience began one day as he looked out from his lonely signal box . |
| 2 | However , it may take the German buyer say one month to decide to buy ; delivery may take a further month and a credit period of a further month may be agreed . |
| 3 | Simultaneously a bomb at the National Institute of Public Administration killed one guerrilla and injured four other people . |
| 4 | In most cases , historical opinion favours one side or the other . |
| 5 | The metric tensor requires one transformation for each of its indices . |
| 6 | Here the slipping knife provides one force and the finger provides the other force in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 8 | An official at Zaporizha 's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately . |
| 9 | Do you remember the old days when it was standard practice to put one paper on top of another ? |
| 10 | news on ronny johnsen is that he probably will not be offered a contract with spurs — he was tried out as a central marking defender ( the style most teams play — each central defender marks one attacker ) and as such he was no succes — norway play what we call a zone defence ; ‘ marking ’ their zones instead of players — journalists from Holland were laughing as Norway 's coach Drillo Olsen was asked ‘ who is to mark van Basten ? ’ before our home game against Holland and he answered ‘ No one is ’ — they did not laugh afterwards ( we won 2–1 ) . |
| 11 | I believe it 's not acceptable in any democratic institution to have one area er represented in an unfair and undemocratic way , in a way that distorts er the er parliament er itself and under article one three eight , paragraph three of the E C treaty a common electoral system is a requirement . |
| 12 | The fact that a local authority or a central department lacks one resource does not mean that it lacks others . |
| 13 | Over Madame Mattli 's shoulder Paula could see Arlene watching her , a tiny smile lifting one corner of her scarlet mouth , and Paula knew her well enough by now to know exactly what she was thinking . |
| 14 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 15 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 16 | 4 One millilitre of pure water weighs one gram . |
| 17 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 18 | Worst of all , your entire party becomes one sprite ! |
| 19 | A quick search reveals one female redwing on a nest in the short scrubby beech-like bushes on the leeward side of a stream cutting . |
| 20 | A relaxed horse rests one hip and presents a ‘ dull ’ outline . |
| 21 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 22 | The Listening Test is taken from a vast resource bank of authentic data : thousands of examples of ‘ slips of the ear ’ where a native speaker said one thing and the non-native speaker — who was listening — heard another . |
| 23 | Half Fisherman 's Rib is similar , but one bed will knit every row , while the opposite bed knits one row and tucks the next . |
| 24 | So in an exhaustive ballot to choose one animal representative from among Ape , Bear , Camel , Donkey and Elephant the voting might go something like this : Clearly the exhaustive ballot is — like the STV — highly artificial . |
| 25 | ‘ You think it is a little thing to write one page ? |
| 26 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom which flashes on and off . |
| 27 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 28 | Chela and Urna are dancers at La Fama night club , a grotty little joint comprising one bar , 15 or so rickety wooden tables , and an illuminated picture of a woman 's bottom . |
| 29 | Never in the history of human seduction has one man given so much attention to the cause of international womanhood as the former roadsweeper from Milton . |
| 30 | It is possible for corporate restructuring to benefit one class of claimants and to harm another class . |