Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The Friend in Disgrace ’ is a dialogue in which one friend fails to recognize another who has suffered misfortune : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's far worse in many other districts . |
| 9 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's ah worse in many other districts . |
| 10 | A stone mould from Sitia combining the cross , the wheel and the flaring sun-disc all in one symbol tends to confirm this ( title illustration , Chapter 1 ) . |
| 11 | As soon as one just one company decides to take that seal we 've got to put that ad in somewhere . |