Example sentences of "one [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One receives a whole gamut of responses to the general run of questions : why , how and when and for how long . |
| 2 | RIGHT It is quite normal for puppies to bolt down their food quickly , but with several puppies , you should check to ensure that each one receives an equal share . |
| 3 | This one involves a man-and-child hunt ; it is earthy , raw and quite special . |
| 4 | The approach is to choose two discount rates to apply to a project , so that one produces a positive NVP and the other a negative NPV . |
| 5 | I like to work with a whole range of pencil grades as each one produces a different colour and density , and I believe , creates a more complete drawing . |
| 6 | I like to work with a whole range of pencil grades as each one produces a different colour and density , and I believe , creates a more complete drawing . |
| 7 | The Panic Brothers Although the patter of the camp , grey-haired one between songs can irritate , his tenor combined with the falsetto of the otherwise silent , red-haired , red-faced one produces a pleasing pastiche of the Everlys . |
| 8 | If one postulates an honest customer taking goods from a shelf to put in his or her trolley to take to the checkpoint there to pay the proper price , I am unable to see that any of these actions involves any assumption by the shopper of the rights of the supermarket . |
| 9 | Zero is random ; one represents a perfect fit . |
| 10 | Well actually when it 's in the sun one looks a silvery gold . |
| 11 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 12 | ‘ To find one 's own way to hell , to visit the underworld , one needs a pure heart or divine protection . |
| 13 | One needs a Porter-style analysis to discover exactly what type of investment and competitive strategy is needed to achieve or maintain market share or competitive position ; one can not just assume that any type of investment in capacity in areas of high market share will lead to future success . |
| 14 | In both cases one needs a common belief in the social role of justice and in its priority to be assured of a compromise . |
| 15 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |
| 16 | For , if one accepts a truth-conditional semantics then one is forced to state truth conditions on sentences-in-contexts , or if one prefers ( as Katz would ) that semantics is concerned with aspects of meaning assigned by convention to linguistic forms , then one includes context-dependent aspects of meaning within semantics . |
| 17 | Anisette is not a liqueur which , speaking at least for myself , one has a great compulsion to swig down in quantity ; in my cupboard a bottle lasts for years . |
| 18 | One has a straightforward venturi return , but the other outlet is an ingenious surface-skimmer/solids collector ( see the diagram ) |
| 19 | The old hydraulically-activated system had 10 small clutch plates , whereas the new one has a bigger 23cm ( 9in ) flywheel and four big plates . |
| 20 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 21 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 22 | For such a beginning writer in such a situation , it may well turn out that a minor master like Landor is more fruitfully instructive than a major master like Milton or Keats : and if it does turn out so , one has a certain debt of honour that must be paid to the past master by whom one was liberated . |
| 23 | One would then not be saying that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life but that one has a certain belief to the effect that it does not do so . |
| 24 | By supposing that one has a typical member to investigate one can maximize one 's knowledge of the properties and structure common to each member of the class by examining that one member in great detail . |
| 25 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 26 | One ground for such a belief is that one has a legal right to some act or omission by another legal or natural person , although to define claims in terms of rights becomes circular : |
| 27 | One has a withered leg from polio . |
| 28 | And one has a nasty feeling that this would be erm a , an O-level history candidate , where unfortunately that is , seems to be just the quality that 's required . |
| 29 | This one has a pre-programmed sequence , which corresponds to the owner 's individual code . |
| 30 | No one has a convincing reason for this . |