Example sentences of "one [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 2 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 4 | If you hatch adults from one kind of plant they need plants of the other type to lay their eggs on . |
| 5 | But there was one kind of book he had a particular passion for ; Encyclopaedias . |
| 6 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 7 | Linguistic phenomena may be equivalent in the sense that at one level of coding they may be different , but at another level they may be the same . |
| 8 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 9 | One piece of equipment I really liked on the Mercedes was the wiper system — a single arm that dips in the middle of its strokes to maximise its sweep . |
| 10 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |
| 11 | Indeed , in so far as knowing the ‘ cause ’ would restrict our reading of the poems , it is the one piece of information we can probably do without . ’ |
| 12 | You an also bed the crazy paving or slabs directly on to the surface of wet concrete , but you will have problems in achieving a completely level finish , because when you tap one piece down level it will force one of the previously laid pieces upward . |
| 13 | That is , in considering the effects upon one industry in isolation we have ignored any repercussions throughout industry as a whole . |
| 14 | I think the one type of penalty we lack is something between full custody and non-custody . |
| 15 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 16 | Well it will be sent off to the Secretary of State in theory he has twenty one days in practice I suspect it will be mid-January at least before we learn . |
| 17 | From one point of view we all know probably what is meant by this : the importance of not allowing one 's own stance to block the way to understanding someone else 's . |
| 18 | From one point of view it might not matter , for the paragraphs are in part devised to give the reader information . |
| 19 | From one point of view it could be argued that he should be rescued from Tarvaras before he had an opportunity to come into contact with any of the inhabitants . |
| 20 | From one point of view I agree — I do not think we should be concerned about teaching a basic kit of factual information . |
| 21 | Yeah I think so I must admit from one point of view I 'm quite glad that I have n't passed cos |
| 22 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 23 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 24 | One night in desperation I took one of Michael 's strong pain-killers . |
| 25 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 26 | Then one day at school I got a sharp pain in my stomach . |
| 27 | Most will die , but since many millions are contained in even one drop of semen it is practically inevitable that some will find their way through the uterus into the fallopian tubes . |
| 28 | But one morning at breakfast he was reading music and listening to the tune in his head , when he heard a musical voice which seemed to become part of his tune . |
| 29 | With our current facilities we can do a set number of coronary artery bypass graft operations in any period , and thus if we operate on more patients from one district by definition we operate on fewer patients from another . |
| 30 | Antonio believes that by making Shylock in Act Four Scene one convert to Christianity he is saving his soul , however unwittingly he does not realise he is killing Shylock . |