Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one field the soil was arid ; nothing seemed able to grow there but a sort of grass that even sheep disdained , and thistles a hobbled donkey was sampling . |
| 2 | The scheme involved ten patrons paying one ducat a month ( roughly 600 gulden per year ) . |
| 3 | One difficulty the beginner might find on being asked to prove 1.4.5 is that of deciding exactly what to write down . |
| 4 | One defence the ministry will make is that most trade statistics ignore services . |
| 5 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 6 | In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her . |
| 7 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 8 | In one instance a picture lent from Czechoslovakia to Cologne was prevented from returning because of a claim to title made by the former owner 's heir . |
| 9 | In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times . |
| 10 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |
| 11 | During one orbit the satellite observes a band of sky half a degree wide . |
| 12 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 13 | In spite of all precautions , one afternoon a column got into the hut through a hole in the wall at the back . |
| 14 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 15 | I got one evening off … and one afternoon a month ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 83 ) . |
| 16 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 17 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 18 | Under the auspices of the Pre-school Group for Parents and Children , the children and their parents enjoy a variety of activities one afternoon a week at Liphook Infant School . |
| 19 | Can you plan one afternoon a week just to enjoy yourself ? |
| 20 | One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught . |
| 21 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 22 | They send lecturers to the plant one afternoon a week to teach . |
| 23 | This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload . |
| 24 | I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week . |
| 25 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 26 | One afternoon the Dodger and Charley Bates were at home and they started telling Oliver about their lives as thieves . |
| 27 | One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country . |
| 28 | I have only had the machine for six weeks now , but try to spend at least one hour every day with it . |
| 29 | By supplementary help we refer to cases where either support worker help was provided temporarily , to relieve in unusual circumstances , or support workers were employed with a client on average no more than one hour a day , seven days a week . |
| 30 | In response , a growing body of clergy and laity , on both sides of the Atlantic , are committing themselves to dedicate at least one hour a day to prayer for the renewal and growth of the Church and for the transformation of society . |