Example sentences of "one [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 2 | On balance , studies have found no indication of harmful physical effects ; no evidence that television introduces a harmful amount of aggression , violence or fear into an already normal child or that it turns an undisturbed child into a disturbed one or a non-delinquent child into a delinquent . |
| 3 | A NEW American semiconductor could overcome one or the biggest hurdles posed by the ever-diminishing size of integrated circuits . |
| 4 | A ‘ Confirmed Credit ’ is one where a second bank ( usually one familiar to the exporter ) adds it name to the Credit and thereby assumes all the responsibilities of payment mentioned in Article 10 . |
| 5 | These are interesting , for the explicit denial suggests that the scenario is one where a sexual connotation would ‘ normally ’ be expected . |
| 6 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 7 | Thirdly , if the marriage is dissolved the disposition may be one where no gratuitous benefit is intended ( see Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s10 ) as it is to settle the claim of the former spouse ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) . |
| 8 | That 's the kind of war this one was , one where the only person you could trust was yourself , and yourself not that much . |
| 9 | The position eventually taken up by Makarenko was one where the ultimate criteria of truth and morality had to reside in the centralized state . |
| 10 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 11 | It is one where the clear purpose of extensive coverage was titillation . |
| 12 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 13 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 14 | Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold . |
| 15 | Yesterday 's loss hit her hard and one friend said : ‘ It 's not one that a good night 's sleep will make her forget . |
| 16 | At the most , it 's a desperate risk , and one that a civilised chap should think long and hard before taking .. |
| 17 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 18 | One that the new settlement should avoid er the greenbelt . |
| 19 | If I stay , I can make you the best horsewoman in the district — one your husband will be proud of and one that the other ladies will envy when you ride to hounds . ’ |
| 20 | If there is any silver lining to their dark cloud , it is the dubious one that the super-regional banks — for most of the 1980s the successes of American banking — also are on their way down ( or , like Bank of New England , out ) . |
| 21 | the show of hands , like he was er he was the one that the floating voters were |
| 22 | The key question is not the one that the hon. Gentleman asked , but , rather , whose policies will be best able to put people back to work ? |
| 23 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 24 | It is a simple lesson , but one that the British left has not quite learned . |
| 25 | Innocent 's role as a great spiritual ruler , arbitrating on the candidates for the title , was a weak one if the favoured candidate did not have the necessary allegiance and military support of the princes . |
| 26 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 27 | And , and one and a half times . |
| 28 | After one and a half minutes the aircraft began to overshoot , correctly making an initial turn to the west . |
| 29 | not being taken until one and a half minutes before the guillotine fell . |
| 30 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |