Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year I am delighted to welcome one of England 's most acclaimed orchestras — The English Concert , directed by Trevor Pinnock — to one of England 's finest medieval buildings , Beverley Minster . |
| 2 | I am glad to say one or two Neath players got just that . |
| 3 | May , when I 'm older have one of them . |
| 4 | Oh no , I do n't think I 'm inclined to buy one of them , ten , eleven pounds ninety nine . |
| 5 | So I was surprised to encounter one firm with a collection of what really did look like my sort of junk . |
| 6 | However , the under-manager of the society pointed out to us both in the politest possible terms that I was unable to withdraw one penny of the deposit until the first full year had been completed . |
| 7 | I was able to take one of them across with me to Regents Park , where we joined SRS Active and had a boat on the lake . |
| 8 | I myself feel sure that you are full of goodness , that you have all knowledge and that you are able to teach one another . |
| 9 | Take an evening walk after dark on any clear night and you are likely to see one or more meteors , short streaks of light shooting across the sky . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're supposed to drive one of the getaway cars . ’ |
| 11 | During a four-day visit to Korea , Charles and Diana are dubbed ‘ The Glums ’ , with reports that they are unable to bear one another 's company . |
| 12 | If the former outbalances it , they are likely to approach one another . |
| 13 | The throng was thick , massing like a swarm of bees , the noise and clamour so intense they were unable to hear one another speak . |
| 14 | ‘ Would it be appropriate to include one or two old friends of his , do you think ? |
| 15 | More importantly , with so many instructions to follow , it 's easy to miss one or to make a mistake . |
| 16 | So , while it 's easy to tell one wild species from another , when humans start mixing them up , working out ancestries becomes increasingly problematical . |
| 17 | It 's easy to make one very expensive roll of wallpaper stretch all round a room which , if you could ever afford it , would normally take lo or I 2 rolls . |
| 18 | ‘ And it 's good to know one member of that family has a conscience . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's enough to make one feel one should go into the West End to a Heavy Metal disco or something . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's important to have one leader . |
| 21 | She thought it might be the one that was always being made to speak up for the others , but she could n't be sure ; it 's difficult to tell one beetle from another . |
| 22 | On arrival together , it is appropriate to encourage one another saying , as it were , ‘ Come on friends , let's do what we 've come here to do . ’ |
| 23 | It is good to see one or two new authors names , while some publishers , Longman for example , are wheeling out titles from all the big names — Alexander , Abbs , O'Neill , Harmer — in an attempt to maintain any gains in market share made by the success of Intermediate Matters , Upper Intermediate Matters , and , to a lesser extent , Beginners Choice . |
| 24 | It is interesting that the Minister believes that could have a damaging impact on the quality of bids and that it is better to receive one bid that represents management and employees . |
| 25 | It is better to do one or two and then opt for more sensible distances . ’ |
| 26 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 27 | First , it is necessary to determine one or more behavioural teaching objectives . |
| 28 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |
| 29 | It is fascinating to hear one of his major works such as the Violin Concerto , composed in 1910 . |
| 30 | Within a large movement it is usual to establish one main key for the whole piece , but to have one or more separate sections in harmonic contrast . |