Example sentences of "in one [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case a contract was agreed and several sessions were held with a family consisting of grandmother , her son and his wife and their three teenage children . |
| 2 | In one case a councillor was fined because he was a builder and discussed the matter of direct labour at a housing committee . |
| 3 | In one case a price sticker was 22 months old . |
| 4 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 5 | He describes how in one case a girl from a poverty-stricken background went to live with a man who promised to marry her . |
| 6 | In one case a field officer inspecting a large garage which had been causing problems with an oil discharge was given an extensive tour of the premises and an offer of ( unspecified ) help with his car ( this case , together with the lavish hospitality of the McDonald 's case described in Chapter 2 , were the only examples of an inducement , however vague , being made in my presence ) . |
| 7 | ‘ In one case a parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
| 8 | There are stories of gangs of roughs waylaying cyclists and pelting them with stones , and in one case a South London cowboy was brought before Lambeth court for lassoing cyclists — ‘ a kind of horseplay that must be stamped out at once ’ said the magistrate , with good reason . |
| 9 | In one case a child was removed from her mother after a fracture at the age of 18 months . |
| 10 | In one case a woman waited three quarters of an hour with her child screaming with an open wound . |
| 11 | In one case a complaint was made on behalf of a Residents Association to the Parliamentary Commissioner alleging maladministration by the Department of Environment and the Health and Safety Executive at an inquiry into two appeals against the refusal of a Metropolitan Borough Council to give planning permission for the erection of a waste material incineration plant and an energy recovery plant . |
| 12 | In one case a barium enema failed to identify a carcinoma at the hepatic flexute , which was found at laparotomy sic months later . |
| 13 | For example , in one case a number of Staffordshire businessmen were keen to make a bid for a £75 million contract for the construction of security fencing around a British military base in Germany . |
| 14 | In the space of a few weeks they went from favouring broadly no change in taxation ( which is what the chancellor gave them ) to yearning for the rod — in one case a tax rise of £5 billion-10 billion . |
| 15 | ‘ Jimmy Montgomery comes in one day a week to coach the goalkeepers , and he raves about young Adrian Swan . |
| 16 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 17 | In one school a number of " themes " were identified : homes , school , religion and the Church , trade , and communications ( roads , seafaring ) . |
| 18 | At each school the headteacher ( or in one school a representative ) and at least one other member of staff were interviewed . |
| 19 | In one incident a student was attacked by two men and then forced at gunpoint to hand over his £250 mountain bike . |
| 20 | Mr Globe alleged that in one incident a woman customer was seized in the National Westminster Bank in West Derby Road , by White who held a gun to her head as he ordered the cashier to hand over money . |
| 21 | Those best placed to influence government policy were also most dependent on state patronage to further their military and civil careers , while the police and tax functions delegated to serf-owners made the whole class in one sense a part of the machinery of government . |
| 22 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 23 | A novel is in one sense a game , a game that requires at least two players , a reader as well as a writer . |
| 24 | As I see it , the ‘ passivity ’ is in one sense a consequence of the decision to write the sonnets from a man to a man — as Sonnet 20 made clear , no ‘ activity ’ is contemplated . |
| 25 | In one scene a gunman points his weapon at the cameraman . |
| 26 | In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her . |
| 27 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 28 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 29 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 30 | In one zone a drift of loose bones , kippered limbs , and dehydrated heads suggested cannibalism . |