Example sentences of "the one word " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 2 | He identified with the Barmen Declaration that : ‘ Jesus Christ is the one Word of God which we are required to hear … we repudiate the false teachings that the Church must recognize other teachings and other personalities alongside this one Word of God . ’ |
| 3 | The one word which sums up our society is freedom . |
| 4 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 5 | The one word which seems to be uppermost in every discussion , decision or political behind-the-scenes scheming in tennis these days , is MONEY . |
| 6 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The shout was the one word . |
| 8 | The one word shouted was ‘ Colt ’ . |
| 9 | He folded the paper and addressed the envelope with the one word COLT . |
| 10 | This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy . |
| 11 | From Finn 's painted lips , which were made of fire , came the one word : ‘ Never ! ’ |
| 12 | There were no hours marked round the dial , and the whole of the right-hand half was blacked out , with the one word Sleep in white upon it . |
| 13 | Portuguese uses the one word " chave " to cover all these tools , and in fact uses " chave " for " key " as well . |
| 14 | The letter was addressed to Chief Inspector Morse , St Aldate 's Central Police Station , Oxford , and in the top left-hand corner was written the one word : URGENT . |
| 15 | Maggie Smith once said about him : ‘ Kenneth taught me how to recognize the one word in a sentence which would turn it from a commonplace statement into something wildly funny . ’ |
| 16 | There was only the one word , but something in the way he looked made her hesitate . |
| 17 | This time it was his turn to give the one word answer . |