Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 2 | Compact , single-member , constituencies ( as opposed to large , multi-member , constituencies ) provide for one representative in a way that is said to facilitate constituent-member contact and the redress of individual grievances . |
| 3 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 4 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 5 | People who leap from one relationship to another like someone crossing a stream on stepping-stones never grow up . |
| 6 | However , they avoid modulations and leap from one key to another freely and abruptly . |
| 7 | Ones such as , ‘ powerful plain pistons ’ , convey the sense of abruptness and force needed in the beginning while ones such as ‘ speed throws up strange shapes ’ slip from one word to the other giving a feeling of velocity . |
| 8 | Do I guide the Feedback Session so that we grow from one session to another ? |
| 9 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 10 | WALKING SPEEDS ( M.P.H. ) — Walk for one mile along the route you have previously measured with the car 's odometer and time yourself . |
| 11 | The large counties of Warwickshire , Gloucestershire and Wiltshire , which form a solid block to the west of this ‘ concentrated ’ area , show about one acre in four dealt with by the enclosure commissioners , rising on parts of the Wiltshire chalk to one in two . |
| 12 | I get a bit dizzy again and have to take it easy , so what I do is I walk with one arm against the shop windows and that , so I do n't fall over . |
| 13 | Its culmination is the Joint Committee , as a result of which the three UK and Irish Institutes now speak with one voice on ethical issues . |
| 14 | Instead of wasteful duplication of effort , these bodies have now created a ‘ Link ’ organisation so that they can share information and ideas , reinforce each others ' action and , where possible , speak with one voice on matters of common concern . |
| 15 | Here theorists such as Austin , Hart , Kelsen , Unger , Holmes and even Aquinas , as interpreted by Finnis , speak with one voice in proclaiming that the relationship between rule and decision is more complex than mere deduction . |
| 16 | When heads touch , the lice simply walk from one head to the other . |
| 17 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 18 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 19 | Each of the 40 walks selected , which range from one mile to eight miles long , are illustrated with a simple map and easy to follow step by step instructions . |
| 20 | You sit there , then you get up and you walk to one end of your cell , which is n't very far , stand there for a little while , then you walk back , look out the window , and all the thoughts go through your mind — I could be out there , your children , friends , what you 'd be doing if you was out there . |
| 21 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 22 | Adult cancers focus on one part of the body : the lungs or the colon , for example . |
| 23 | We all depend on one biosphere for sustaining our lives . |
| 24 | The other six species erm all simultaneously show at one point in the record really rather sudden change . |
| 25 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 26 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |
| 27 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ Breaking free from their past pain , not knowing who to turn to … they run from one nightmare into another . ’ |
| 29 | Royal plea : Children who leave home ‘ run from one nightmare into another ’ |
| 30 | At the signal from the organizer all the geese try and run from one end to the other without being caught . |