Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 2 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 3 | Throughout these painful exchanges , the King had remained at Sandringham ; it was not for the sovereign to intervene between one faction of the Cabinet and another . |
| 4 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 5 | It 's a graph of average household size in North Yorkshire , and it 's to that extent it 's an attempt to summarize into one figure , the headship rate effect as it affects average household size . |
| 6 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 7 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 8 | Best of all , perhaps , was his splendid spoonerism that came from an ambitious attempt to say of one player , ‘ He 's sticking out his bottom — like someone sitting on a shooting stick . ’ |
| 9 | In summary it seems that a statistical relationship between low-level exposure to lead on one hand , and low intelligence and , possibly , hyperactivity on the other , has been established , but that the causal relation is still an unresolved issue . |
| 10 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 11 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 12 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 13 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 14 | Opponents of the curfew claim that forcing every bar to close at one time or , as proposed , requiring nightclubs to close their doors at 1.30 while allowing drinking until 3am or 4am , would lead to a flood of pub-goers hitting the streets at once , exacerbating the problem . |
| 15 | And it seems to me there is no reason to suppose that because there are more houses , the propensity to move from one house to another declines . |
| 16 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 17 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 18 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 19 | Every object in these paintings is separated from those surrounding it by layers of tactile , visible space which enable the spectator 's eye to reach from one part of the canvas to another , from one object to another , by a series of clearly defined pictorial passages . |
| 20 | Roll out a piece of white fondant and cut out a quarter circle to fit into one corner of the cake drum . |
| 21 | Any tendency for a distribution to lean to one side , i.e. to deviate from normality , leads to differences between the median and mean values . |
| 22 | Stoicism replaces sentimentality , pragmatism is preferred to romance , and the need to survive from one season to the next overrides everything . |
| 23 | Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself . |
| 24 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 25 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 26 | It 's quite a bit to do on one day , to go and do four . |
| 27 | Now to Rugby Park , where Kilmarnock , after a superb start to the season , had the chance to go within one game of their previous best Premier League run of ten matches undefeated . |
| 28 | ‘ Most scanning enthusiasts will programme their scanner to search from one frequency to another . |
| 29 | That 's right , and I 've got a bone to pick with one club . |
| 30 | A day to stay in one peace Talking Point . |