Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This difference continued in 1987 to 1989 as one between an estimated modest increase in employment , of 1.4 per cent , in the North , and a small continuing decline in the South . |
| 2 | So completion of this scheme , the western relief road would complete er the improvements , together with improvements between Killinghall and er and Ripon w would improve complete the improvance of the A sixty one as a key strategic in the County 's network |
| 3 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 4 | So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said . |
| 5 | A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders . |
| 6 | Both points about unfairness are revealed once we note that in the election of 1983 the Conservatives secured one Commons seat for every 33 000 votes ; Labour one for every 40 000 ; and the Liberals and Social Democrats one for every 340 000 . |
| 7 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 8 | The rate depends on the engine size , and gives two figures : one for the first 4,000 miles , with the second rate for all business mileage over 4,000 miles . |
| 9 | My daughter had stumbled into Pitfall Number One for the unwary green consumer — the ‘ Bit-Less-Bad ’ trap . |
| 10 | All through these years took part in every one for the last fifty years . |
| 11 | The new Baryshnikov still dances — yes , with immaculate grace and fine co-ordination — but instead of launching into bravura virtuoso variations he applies his artistry to less spectacular works , modestly remaining very much one of a good professional team . |
| 12 | I am one of a mere 60,000 , a small proportion of the childbearing population . |
| 13 | Later in the book he expands on this , saying : We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies … that it is difficult to believe in a god that would care about us or even notice our existence . |
| 14 | It is just one of a hundred different types of delicious seafood dishes to be found on this coast . |
| 15 | IN THEIR respective obituary and report ( 29 September ) , Andrew Horvat and James Fenton produced a picture of the late President Marcos which was too simply one of a celebrated political monster who got his come-uppance , writes James Hamilton-Paterson . |
| 16 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
| 17 | In the early 1970s , she turned to documentary — she joined the feminist Hackney Flashers , photographed for the Childrens ' Rights Workshop and seemed set to become one of a large emerging group of leftist agit prop campaigning photo-reporters . |
| 18 | Maybe it was n't that , maybe it was any one of a dozen other things . |
| 19 | Any one of a dozen useful , exciting , challenging things . |
| 20 | I walk slowly through the tunnel beneath the line , one of a dozen returning commuters , cross over the road with ten of them , make my way through the gnarled little streets beyond the redundant town hall with eight of the ten , and begin to climb the scarp of the South London hills with the remaining five . |
| 21 | Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another . |
| 22 | Just look at the prizes on offer in this first Guitarist issue of the New Year : a fabulous Signature model Jackson guitar ; a superb Korg A4 guitar processor ; and one of a dozen excellent Note Tracker music slide rules … |
| 23 | It would have been at home in Bournemouth or Scarborough or any one of a dozen British seaside resorts , Christina thought . |
| 24 | The saddest story I have heard is one of a blind German boy who had a Rottweiler as his special pet . |
| 25 | But the young , attractive girl soliciting on this Birmingham street is Asian — and one of a rapidly-grow-ing new breed of prostitutes who are smashing the stereotype of the good , law-abiding , family-minded Asian girl . |
| 26 | The Brahman Centre for learning mental skills is in Provence and you 'll be one of a select few at a time to be taught these techniques . |
| 27 | The diameter of this , one of a few surviving treadwheels , is 15½ feet . |
| 28 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 29 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 30 | Shooting at a slight angle to avoid the flash reflecting from the picture glass and cheating on the film speed setting because he was so close to the wall Maxim took three pictures of the man he had seen at the Abbey and one of every other recent-looking group or portrait . |