Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent . |
| 2 | Xhibition — the X-Windows show — calendared for June 15th to 19th in San Jose , California , is expecting to fetch more than 100 exhibitors : Mircosoft Corp and DEC are citing it as one of the key technical conferences to explore NT and ACE applications development . |
| 3 | They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’ |
| 4 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 5 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 6 | See this was after the nationalization and the policy of the railway executive at that time was to instead of two stations in one town , they were all they were reducing it to one station you see . |
| 7 | One of the most important things to learn regarding conflict is to accept it as one of the normal challenges of life . |
| 8 | ‘ Once a mosquito 's bitten you in one spot , it 'll never return . |
| 9 | Woman , the top that I 'm gon na buy for Romax and Jason eight ninety nine and she 's selling it for one fifty . |
| 10 | Graham is boring himself in one of his car magazines |
| 11 | it 's getting it from one place to the next |
| 12 | The aim of the project in relation to schools is to regard them as one kind of community group among others . |
| 13 | GRAHAM GOOCH is preparing himself for one last big effort as an England Test captain on a foreign field . |
| 14 | But Joyce , his creator , is watching him as one of his own timorous school boys might watch a particularly daring companion , admiring , fearful , disapproving , conscious of unresolved guilt , above all divided . |
| 15 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 16 | ‘ Sheer luck — it 's tagged itself with one of these . ’ |
| 17 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 18 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 19 | Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering . |
| 20 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 21 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 22 | The one , the thing that I actually picked up on is tt erm in the greeting part of it you , you started very well and then Martin seemed to take control and you almost felt as if Martin was interviewing you at one point and erm you tried to get the control back and that 's when you went straight into the statement of purpose , because Martin was taking control . |
| 23 | Well I thought the idea was to put it on one of the original walls though . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |
| 25 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 26 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 27 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 28 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |