Example sentences of "it be one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
2 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
3 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
4 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
5 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
6 | Let me give you some other examples in case you feel there is some doubt because of course it 's one test . |
7 | So it 's one consignment . |
8 | It does n't matter whether it 's one pizza shared out between three of us or as we tried earlier two shared out between six of us . |
9 | Well it 's one flower that 's probably gone , but take that off really |
10 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
11 | Sorry , it 's one night . |
12 | This prat , silly cow has to sneak up her , it 's one lane love . |
13 | I think it 's I think it 's one voucher for fifteen litres . |
14 | Just a couple of ladies erm well it 's one lady , I think er the lady just helps her . |
15 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |
16 | It 's one way of ensuring your stay is as enjoyable as the journey . |
17 | Of course I 'm drunk what do you think it 's one way of getting you out of my head . |
18 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |
19 | But it 's one way of distributing any money that the party wants to give to subsidize people so that everybody can benefit from it erm rather than means testing . |
20 | Health visitors who specialise in the welfare of the homeless believe it 's one way of ensuring families do get a decent meal in the morning … |
21 | It 's one way of reminding them how complicated your task is so with six months overlap so we 're talking about September are n't we ? |
22 | . Suppose it 's one way is n't it ? |
23 | Well , it 's one way to get rid of it . |
24 | it 's one way , what was called this way |
25 | Because one way it 's one way round the other way it 's the other . |
26 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
27 | It 's it 's one way because they do n't want |
28 | And it 's one way that they that the clubs can get planning permission to expand a little , so I do n't knock big business , I think that sponsorship in one form or another is very very important and vital . |
29 | It wo n't work for political reasons — it 's one con-trick too far . ’ |
30 | ‘ It 's one con-trick too far . ’ |