Example sentences of "be one [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always been one for good manners , I like people to say please and thank you , ’ says Marjorie Gedge . |
| 2 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 3 | She 's never been one for unnecessary nonconformity and there 's the Italian family to think of , but there 's more to it . |
| 4 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |
| 5 | I 've never been one for loud bangs . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Gros said : ‘ No one has died in an avalanche here for 10 years and there has never been one at that spot before . |
| 7 | ( I think that Bread Not Stone is more hesitant here than In Memory of Her : she speaks of there being one vision , whereas in In Memory of Her she appears simply to suggest that in our suffering and our courage we are one with first-century women . ) |
| 8 | The likeliest thing to happen is that you leg it because , in a hullabaloo , you are one against two … |
| 9 | They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them |
| 10 | The chances of having a severely mentally handicapped child are one in 200 . |
| 11 | ‘ The chances of the blood belonging to anybody else are one in 1,400 million , ’ he added . |
| 12 | Perhaps in another month or so I will find I am one among 50 runners for the job . ’ |
| 13 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 14 | It will undoubtedly be one for public debate , and rightly so . |
| 15 | So that 'll be one minus one , comes to zero . |
| 16 | In the case of Down 's Syndrome , where the birth incidence is one in every 700 births ( around 0.8 per 1000 ) , 70–80% are miscarried so the incidence at conception may be one in 200 or higher . |
| 17 | This may be compared with the conception rate for Down 's Syndrome , which is thought to be one in 200 . |
| 18 | EVERY ticket holder in the new national lottery could become an instant millionaire — but you 'd be one in 3.2 million . |
| 19 | We expect it to be one in three by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Family friend Pete Harkins said yesterday : ‘ Chances of a match for Paul might be one in 50,000 . |
| 21 | And in any case , this sort of information will hardly prove the point in question ; for while it is true enough that capital can influence the filling of government posts , the formation of foreign policy and so on , this simply shows that the state is swayed by an interest group which may be one among many . |
| 22 | Lord for instance and er there used to be one from this way , Portmadoc somewhere , the place was the place was called . |
| 23 | Eighty two per cent lasted less than one second , 16% were one to two seconds , and 2% were more than two seconds in duration . |
| 24 | And most of the forewomen See there were one on each shift , three shifts and then there were f a middle shift , a nine to five shift that was four forewomen . |
| 25 | In south-west Hertfordshire one in seven of the working-class boys secured entry to a grammar school , compared with one in two of the sons of clerks ; the corresponding proportions in Middlesborough were one in eight and one in three . |
| 26 | This is most apparent from the judgment of Lord Wilberforce who makes clearer than their remaining Lordships that the case is one about jurisdictional fact . |
| 27 | Therefore , the appearance that the relation between husband and wife in love-making is one between equal autonomous partners , is an appearance only . |
| 28 | They set a number of questions on many subjects whose answers are readily available , but there is one above all which still scuppers me , especially as there are no solutions in the book nor in any subsequent edition . |
| 29 | The service we have given here is one without individual confession . |
| 30 | The goal of one consultant general surgeon for 30000 population is modest when compared with international comparisons or even with Scotland , where there is currently one consultant for 31000 population , and Northern Ireland , where there is one for 28000 . |