Example sentences of "[prep] one [noun sg] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one minute the children were round it in a circle , laughing and playing with it , just like the humans in the Star Zoo . |
| 2 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 3 | I can count on the fingers of one hand the days when the weather was pleasant during my ten months there . |
| 4 | I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner . |
| 5 | Even within one country the variations between states or provinces with fairly similar cultural and value systems are startling . |
| 6 | Oh she has enough certificates to of gone to teachers ' training college , now that , I always feel although I think she 's quite happy now , but for myself , for myself and I 'm always er tempted by the fact that they always have twelve weeks ' holiday you know , I mean in one go the teachers |
| 7 | In one case the articles conferred a right of pre-emption on the other shareholders when any shareholder was ‘ desirous of transferring his ordinary shares . ’ |
| 8 | This approach has the advantage of accommodating in one framework the needs of dependent people as well as those of less dependent people . |
| 9 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 10 | Yet in one sense the circumstances of any and every poem are ‘ special ’ ; and at any rate all these instances show that , in his own writing as in the writing of others , Pound was prepared to recognize circumstances which justified departing very far indeed from Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction , indeed flying in the face of them . |
| 11 | In one sense the theories triumphed . |
| 12 | Also in London 's Burning , in one episode the lads are watching one of the legs of the semi of the Rumbelows in 1992 vs scum and Bayleaf gives a shout of disapproval when a Leeds player is dispossessed … |
| 13 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 14 | Now in its third edition , this text brings together in one volume the guide-lines for people in jobs with special tax problems . |
| 15 | In one tale a women makes a boy into stew ; but he has his revenge by becoming a bird and dropping a millstone on her head . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , in one respect the Egyptians made an outstanding contribution to the science of time . |
| 17 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 18 | Leaving aside for one moment the arguments advanced earlier about the morality of insider dealing , the use of inside information to compensate managers and entrepreneurs is not without its practical difficulties . |
| 19 | His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence . |
| 20 | This narrowing of focus does not mean that we are laying to one side the issues raised in these two chapters as now dispensed with . |
| 21 | Later , the only Gentile writer in the New Testament tells us that on one occasion the disciples found Jesus praying and when he had finished they asked him , ‘ ’ Lord , teach us to pray . ’ |
| 22 | On one occasion the police were chasing after one such reckless driver when he shouted ‘ Do n't shoot , I 'm only a Joy Rider ’ . |
| 23 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 24 | On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior . |
| 25 | At one level the reasons were not difficult to see : although government initially fulfilled the conditions of the loan , in hiring management and adjusting prices , it later backed out of the commitment . |
| 26 | At one time the Kaszubians and their Pomeranian kin had been part of a powerful independent principality : their territory had stretched from the gulf of Danzig westwards to Słupsk ( Stolp ) and the river Słupia ( Stolpe ) , where the small town of Dębnica Kaszubska ( literally : Kaszubian Oaks ) still survives . |
| 27 | At one time the ladies of the area did all the embroidery themselves . |
| 28 | If large numbers of pre-implantation embryos are required at one time the gonadotropins PMSG ( pregnant mare 's serum gonadotropin as Gestyl from Organon or Folligon from Intervet Laboratories Limited ) and hCG ( human chorionic gonadotropin from Sigma or Intervet Laboratories Limited ) can be administered to females prior to mating in order to increase the ovulation rate . |
| 29 | At one time the beliefs held about woman in the church , that she might not be ordained , that she was placed subordinate to man , that she had her ‘ own ’ sphere of motherhood , were simply at one with the beliefs of the world in which the church was situated . |
| 30 | There are several smart new dwellings here , no doubt built upon the old closes and orchards where at one time the Anabaptists were buried . |