Example sentences of "[adv] one [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 To enter the book draw , just send your name and address on a postcard , and do n't forget to state whether you would prefer books from only one category or a mix of all ( please give the age of child if applicable ) , to SHE/Books for Giving Offer , BA Marketing , Minster House , 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road , London SW1V 1BA , by November 30 .
2 Kasmin has opened in more spacious quarters at 74 Grand St and they are presenting in it only one painting but a big one by Peter Schuyff 6 to 31 October while Hirschl & Adler Modern have abandoned the rarefied reaches of upper Madison Ave .
3 Patients who had only one resection or a panproctocolectomy had normal SMRs of 65 ( 95% CI 36 to 107 ) and 67 ( 95% CI 18 to 172 ) respectively .
4 He said : ‘ He 's only one voice and a pathetically uneducated and ignorant one . ’
5 Conner has only one boat and a £7 million budget .
6 Each manipulation drop should contain only one embryo and a fresh drop should be used for each injection to minimize any possible contamination due to label diffusing out of the injection pipette .
7 His brass-faced clocks had only one hand and a calendar because , in the years before bus and train timetables and television programme times , all the Dalesmen needed to know was the hour and the day .
8 But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band .
9 ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? ,
10 BSM has 18% of a highly fragmented market ( many driving schools are just one man and a car ) , more than 2,000 vehicles and 130 outlets in the UK .
11 ‘ Hate to Love takes just one vowel-change and a shift of two consonants .
12 No furniture , just one chair and a mattress on the floor , and nothing to do at all .
13 He walked around with a portfolio under one arm and a folding campstool under the other , his head held to one side in a manner considered odd .
14 Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros .
15 There is also some evidence that students who have passed at least one A-level or a similar examination are likely to perform well in higher education .
16 There should be at least one chair and a capacious table to take all the paraphernalia that inevitably collects in this clearing house for the home .
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