Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 2 | If she looks round one day for someone to borrow a fiver off she might , just might , notice I 'm not there . ’ |
| 3 | She picks out one letter from Damascus , sent via Geneva . |
| 4 | She carries under one arm her folder of lecture notes , and under the other a bundle of books from which to read illustrative quotations . |
| 5 | I hope it goes off one day . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 7 | Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution . |
| 8 | And in the end it offers not one way , as the ideologue or the mystic would claim , but rather an acceptance that diversity is forever a fact of life . |
| 9 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
| 10 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeltsin … left the Congress because he understands he has only one partner left with whom he can talk . |
| 12 | ‘ And yet , he does not experience the situation full-time , he has only one view of it . |
| 13 | He has only one investment goal . |
| 14 | The artist , especially if he has only one specimen to work from and can not therefore generalize , must paint what he sees ; the greatest of artists in this line will , however , agree with Josef Wolf that ‘ we see distinctly only what we know thoroughly ’ , a maxim he adapted from Goethe . |
| 15 | ‘ He has only one thing on his mind — to be famous , ’ says one sculptor . |
| 16 | Whatever a Profitboss does , whatever a Profitboss thinks , he has only one thing in mind : the end-result . |
| 17 | What he describes is a series of patrilineal descent groups , each person necessarily belonging to one because he has a father ; and necessarily belonging to only one because he has only one father . |
| 18 | Under the new system he has only one seat . |
| 19 | Effortlessly , and daily , he evacuates nearly one pound in weight of soft stool — the kind of stool which overwhelms our medical expert with its beauty . |
| 20 | He has reserved his best efforts for West Indies , against whom his average is an impressive 24.90 , while he needs just one wicket for a century against old rivals Pakistan : |
| 21 | It has just one pickup and we 've talked about the idea of doing a version of it with a pickup in the bridge that you can mix in too . |
| 22 | If the project is to be successful , it is vital that , as with the Swiss national bank , when the board of that monetary institution meets , it has only one consideration in mind — how to reconcile the requirements of price stability and liquidity in the Community as a whole . |
| 23 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 24 | Nice rich reds and browns in the colour , it has only one drawback in the shape of some sharp edges which may cut you or your fish . |
| 25 | There was another coalfield on the west coast the Cumberland coalfield — but this had only 16 mines and now it has only one mine but several opencast workings . |
| 26 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 27 | Unlike other brands , it contains only one type of non-irritant sunscreen . |
| 28 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
| 29 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 30 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |