Example sentences of "one to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
2 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
3 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |
4 | The opposite one to the right angle . |
5 | We found two underground passages , one to the sea and one to the landward side . |
6 | The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) won two Lok Sabha seats ; one went to the Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) and one to the Forward Bloc ; one result was countermanded . |
7 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
8 | In these 21 chapters , emphasis is given to the eusocial Hymenoptera , with only one chapter devoted entirely to the Isoptera , one to the presocial Arachnida and one to the presocial insects . |
9 | In these 21 chapters , emphasis is given to the eusocial Hymenoptera , with only one chapter devoted entirely to the Isoptera , one to the presocial Arachnida and one to the presocial insects . |
10 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
11 | The absence of reverence for wine is what endears one to the Italian approach . |
12 | Tell that one to the White Rabbit . |
13 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
14 | A typical pattern is described by a former minister of transport and subsequent chairman of BR : ‘ Over and over again we could have settled much more cheaply by settling more quickly but , at each stage , we were told that we must not settle quickly because the Government really were going to fight this one to the bitter end … |
15 | One led to the drawing-room , one to the Chinese room , which was directly under her bedroom . |
16 | The letter was a little like the earlier one to the anorexic organisation , asking : Do you think ? and Can you tell me … |
17 | Adeane had strongly advised against the controversial speeches of the past year , especially the one to the architectural profession . |