Example sentences of "one [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before . |
| 2 | There has n't been a switch from the A using the A sixty one er to get across to the A one using the southern bypass , that just has n't happened in practice . |
| 3 | Several types of tree structures were implemented for comparison : a binary tree ( section 3.2.2 ) , a 26-way tree ( section 3.2.3.2 ) , a reduced memory tree ( section 3.3.1 ) , two linked list mixed-method trees ( section 3.3.2 ) , one using the 26-way tree structure , and the other using the reduced memory structure , a binary trie ( section 3.2.3.3 ) and a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 ) . |
| 4 | Four players had especial reason to remember the Oval game : two scored double centuries , one took fourteen wickets and one became the leading Test wicket-keeper . |
| 5 | Further tests of GR are described in Chapter 8 : one involves the anomalous precession in the orbits of Mercury and of the binary pulsar 1913+16 , another concerns delays of planetary radar reflections passing near the Sun , and finally there is the gravitational lensing of a quasar image by galactic matter . |
| 6 | In any one place the two species resemble each other , but in different places they have formed ‘ geographic races ’ ( Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 7 | In any one place the two species mimic each other , looking much the same ; but in different places the members of a species differ : both species vary geographically in the same manner . |
| 8 | Notice that four plus minus one has the same answer as four minus one . |
| 9 | Of the 514 , she has managed to research all but two : one has the common name E. Clarke and so could be anyone , she says , but the other , ‘ Loten ’ , is so unusual she has n't found a single reference to it . |
| 10 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 11 | At one stroke the Conservative Government undermined that principle . |
| 12 | He threatens to destroy at one stroke the whole congregation of the people , with the exception only of Moses and his brother Aaron . |
| 13 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 14 | The fourth point , Chairman , er is the new settlement issue , and while that 's due for discussion on policy H Two , that issue does shall I suggest invade policy H One , because an appropriate form of words has to be agreed in policy H One to reflect the new settlement issue and as you 'll be aware the County Council is about a step by step approach towards the finalization of the new settlement erm strategy for Greater York , and then finally , a specific issue that you mentioned is the distribution of developments between the Greater York districts er within Greater York , now as you 'll be aware Chairman , that has been done informally , following the original structure plan in nineteen eighty the County and the Districts got together and agreed the distribution of housing and employment land in Greater York . |
| 15 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 16 | Subsequent experiments have revealed that the concept of attentional focus can be broken down into two separate factors : one concerns the intrinsic importance of actor and acted-upon ; the other concerns informational aspects of actor and acted-upon . |
| 17 | In two parts : part one shows the usual travel and tourist situations , including beauty spots and tourist attractions . |
| 18 | Part One takes the greatest credit for hooking its audiences . |
| 19 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 20 | There are four thicknesses of guard , with number one giving the shortest crop and number four the longest . |
| 21 | One removes the red blood cells , leaving the plasma ; the second removes the fatty cholesterol . |
| 22 | At one end the professional scriveners sat at their desks , quills and parchment at the ready , to draw up wills , indentures , bills of sale , a letter to a friend or a billet doux to a lover . |
| 23 | Later Christian tradition has emphasised the image of a meek , lamb-like saviour , who eschews violence and bids one turn the other cheek . |
| 24 | Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . |
| 25 | Rough Trade helped KLF 's ‘ 3 AM Eternal ’ obtain a Number One placing the very week the company were forced to make a large number of employees redundant . |
| 26 | Against this background , the Wells Committee , the following year , recommended that , as from 1962 , the minimum academic entry requirement for the Institution 's examinations should be raised to five O levels at one sitting the previous standard of five O levels with at least three at one sitting having been established in 1951 . |
| 27 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 28 | If by definition of what you 've said , the A fifty nine is a major cross county link , does the A sixty one serve the same function ? |
| 29 | Today Roy Everson who was disabled when he was just twenty one carried the British flag into the bowling finals . |
| 30 | Cranston tossed him a penny and , standing on an overturned barrel , bellowed for half the market to hear how he was Coroner of the city , and would no one help the poor lad have the corpse removed ? |