Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The first undertaking was for shell forging , and the idea of the LMSR doing this work was initiated in July 1940 , by the Director of Ammunition Production , the original intention being to accommodate one unit to produce 4.5in ( 60-pounder ) shells and two units to manufacture 25-pdr shells .
2 This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other .
3 It is too pat to say , as did Mansfield , that merchants will chose definiteness over ‘ whether the rule is established one way or the other ’ .
4 An alternative is to use one channel of an audio mixer as a volume controller , an added advantage being that , depending on the type , it may be used as a means of matching line and microphone-level signal inputs .
5 A third alternative is to keep one step ahead of demand by increasing the provision of rural leisure facilities and expanding the range of choice .
6 The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting .
7 The aim of the audit is to select one contractor every two weeks and to check such things as the implementation of health and safety plans , to ensure that all documentation is in order and that safety training programmes are being undertaken on an ongoing basis .
8 Here , the child is using one object to represent another .
9 For those who thought BMW 's master plan was to make one car in three different sizes , the new 3-series must be a perplexing product .
10 Independence was granted one week later .
11 An older girl was struck one day
12 Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn .
13 Then , at least seven days before the day fixed for hearing , the plaintiff is to file one copy of a paginated and indexed bundle ( with earliest date on top ) comprising the documents on which either party intends to rely , or which either party wishes to have before the court .
14 For this reason my eye was caught one day by a small box-ad at the bottom of the column :
15 It was this version of the union treaty that was to have been signed by Russian and other representatives on 20 August , and it was apparently to prevent this weakening of central authority , particularly in military and budgetary matters , that the attempted coup was launched one day beforehand .
16 A third flexible sigmoidoscopy was performed one month after cessation of all therapy when the disease has been considered in stable remission with no symptoms of recurrence .
17 Each year there is an annual debate between the Treasury and the different government departments on the size of their budgets , but the aim of this meeting was to go one stage further .
18 Paupers engaged in emptying the cesspools during the night were allowed one pint of beer , 7 ozs. bread and 1 oz. cheese .
19 The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist .
20 The object is to provide one place , and one place only , for each subject .
21 Mixing different tartans is not easy and probably the best advice is to keep one colour common throughout .
22 Their strategy is to have one member of the team running continuously and carrying the bale , while the other drinks the beer .
23 In the former the student is given one unit of instruction and then tested .
24 Therefore in such cases , where it is desired that the UCTA not apply , one method is to draft one contract for both goods and services , and not two separate contracts for each element .
25 In this study the profitability variable was lagged one period in order to take into account the unavoidable delays between changes in profit conditions and the effective realization of resulting investment decisions .
26 At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these .
27 Then the firm are given one year to make the grade .
28 All young offenders released from a detention centre were to get one year 's compulsory after-care .
29 But any man is permitted one slip .
30 A socialist state was proclaimed one year later .
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