Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 2 | Since our ‘ dependent ’ variable is the length in days of the first spell of registered unemployment , all the income variables are calculated as one seventh of the weekly rates . |
| 3 | Parts of a day are calculated as one day . |
| 4 | YOUR ACCOMMODATION — prices are calculated for one of the following arrangements and this is indicated at the foot of each Club description . |
| 5 | Members of the cast are assigned to one of two completely different speaker systems depending on the particular qualities of their voice . |
| 6 | Participants are assigned to one of the College 's Faculty Groups . |
| 7 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 8 | There are differences of style and certain colours are favoured by one group more than by the others but these differences are small . |
| 9 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 10 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 11 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 12 | In effect the product of the discussion in both parts is a matrix where the methodological issues are listed along one axis and particular applications fields on the other . |
| 13 | The complete holdings of each periodical title are listed on one or more cards . |
| 14 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 15 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 16 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 17 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 18 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 19 | The buildings date from the 1870s and are recognized as one of the best , if not the best , surviving groups of commercial buildings of that time . |
| 20 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 21 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 22 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 23 | The drama of the succession , whether it should go to Curzon or to Baldwin , has always been treated as one of the great hairs-breadth decisions of British constitutional history . |
| 24 | Numbers are limited to one applicant per token . |
| 25 | Whilst research students are registered within one of the above Departments , research in the Faculty is arranged under ten areas of Research Specialism as detailed below : |
| 26 | The role of subcontracting and the increasing rate of investment by large companies in their subsidiaries has already been highlighted as one factor involved in the resilience of the small firm sector . |
| 27 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 28 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 29 | A graphic description of this theme has been given by one of the foremost experts on the Maya , J. E. S. Thompson : |
| 30 | And when Charlotte glanced up , she was astonished to see that the ceiling had been painted as one vast rolling cloudscape . |