Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One measure designed to counter this is the introduction this year of just one school-leaving date — the end of June . |
| 2 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 3 | ‘ One passage tries to transform multi-cultural education into a form of Orwellian thought control by telling teachers that children must be taught to acknowledge the positive aspects of homosexual and lesbian households , ’ she says . |
| 4 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 5 | Mystery also surrounded the status of a British ‘ military adviser ’ whom the guerrillas at one point claimed to hold captive . |
| 6 | One device introduced to create harmonic stress was that of writing in two or more different keys or modes at the same time — to write bitonal and polytonal music . |
| 7 | A quotation from one teacher serves to illustrate this attitude : ‘ Nowadays when education is under attack , and survival is the watchword , there is just not enough time or willpower for such peripheral activities . ’ |
| 8 | There was one stratagem left to try first . |
| 9 | ‘ The Friend in Disgrace ’ is a dialogue in which one friend fails to recognize another who has suffered misfortune : |
| 10 | Leach , on one occasion had to go full length to save , and also the keeper at the other end too was kept very busy . |
| 11 | Apart from the restraint of trade considerations there would seem to be no reason why a contract under which one person undertakes to keep silent on a particular subject should not be enforceable in accordance with its terms . |
| 12 | If one person chooses to cause serious injury to another , it should be presumed that he or she realizes that there is always a risk of death , and such cases show a sufficiently wanton disregard for life as to warrant the label ‘ murder ’ if death results . |
| 13 | You should try and work out if any one person seems to carry more weight with the others and address your answers to that person whenever possible . |
| 14 | One person needs to have overall responsibility and to be ready to ‘ nod ’ to leaders of each of the groups when it is their ‘ time ’ . |
| 15 | Understanding how animal venoms and toxins work may one day help to cure human diseases , and experimentation is under way . |
| 16 | In the UK the Institution of Chemical Engineers has produced a computer simulation program specifically for training personnel at large chemical plants who may one day have to manage major fires and toxic releases ( Institution of Chemical Engineers , no date ) . |
| 17 | Croak croak croak one frog began to croak all by himself . |
| 18 | When one woman tried to remove barbed wire from the path of a police horse she feared would get hurt , her photograph became the basis for a frenzied attack which ran the headline , ‘ Horse Whipped With Barbed Wire ’ . |
| 19 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 20 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 21 | One man tried to do that — but forgot to hide the remote control . |
| 22 | He appends to his article on Molla Husrev a brief notice of the life of Hizir Bey , introduced by the phrase ( " one thing calls to mind another " ) , a phrase with which he later introduces his account of Seyh Abdulkerim , the holder of an ad hominem muftilik in the reign of Suleyman . |
| 23 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |
| 24 | There is one umpire itching to tell all about the drama of that momentous lunch interval during the Texaco Trophy one-day match at Lord 's which sparked the biggest row in modern cricket . |
| 25 | As the egg is divided up into a large number of cells , a group of cells at one end come to contain this special pole plasm . |
| 26 | WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's no good one neighbour trying to grow seedless if next door his neighbour has seeded hops blowing pollen over the fence . ’ |
| 28 | Intensive help over the course of one year started to show some therapeutic effects . |
| 29 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's far worse in many other districts . |
| 30 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's ah worse in many other districts . |