Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 2 | The old shed door hanging on one rusted hinge , would swing no more and had crashed to the floor . |
| 3 | Granny 's crepe paper slipped over one eye and she seemed to be saying ‘ Serves them right . ’ |
| 4 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 5 | Normally a shareware author gives around one month to evaluate a package . |
| 6 | A shower that is thermostatically controlled is ideal , but the reliable and efficient ones can be expensive to buy and to install , and a mixer system working off one large hot and cold mixer with two tap controls can be very satisfactory for all but the very severely disabled . |
| 7 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 8 | The miners ' ladder-way in Bonsor East Shaft ran down one side of the shaft in the usual manner — highly risky to the climber rubbing shoulders with the up-and-down moving pump rods , and the iron rising water-main . |
| 9 | The afternoon blast starts around one o'clock , and is more frequent than in Greece . |
| 10 | An open clay channel runs down one side of the labyrinthine staircase . |