Example sentences of "one [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you collide neutrons and protons , bang them one off the other , you can produce these mesons . |
| 2 | Oxford are one off the bottom in Conference A with only eight wins from 27 games . |
| 3 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 4 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I know , but I thought there might be one off the MD 's office . |
| 6 | Of the temporary substitution of a vehicle for one off the road if there is no margin ( by letter enclosing identity disc of specified vehicle ) . |
| 7 | Can you think of one off the top of your head very quickly ? |
| 8 | He broke one off the bunch and held it out tentatively . |
| 9 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 10 | Nowadays , however , there is little clear principle to guide one through the maze of technical arguments . |
| 11 | So I ran the real one through the xerox , got the stamp on that , then filled it in with a ‘ balance ’ of over £1,000 . |
| 12 | McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’ |
| 13 | We have two sets of rural initiatives — one through the Housing Corporation and one through local authorities . |
| 14 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 15 | I got a Liberal one through the post . |
| 16 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 17 | They 're saying one thing for one sex and one for the other . ’ |
| 18 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |
| 19 | It is not , however , a matter of ‘ reducing ’ sociological explanations to psychological , but of seeing the relevance of the one for the other . |
| 20 | But is always necessary to sacrifice one for the other ? |
| 21 | Ultimately we can not safely substitute the one for the other . |
| 22 | There are a number of interrelated reasons , then , why , when one paradigm competes with another ; there is no logically compelling argument that dictates that a rational scientist should abandon one for the other . |
| 23 | swap one for the other . |
| 24 | The worker trades ( or substitutes ) one for the other until he or she is satisfied with the mix . |
| 25 | You 've got ta go one for the other . |
| 26 | I shot one for the museum . |
| 27 | ’ One for the sparrow , one for the crow , One for the weather and one to grow . ’ |
| 28 | Wrap a candle in the end of each tentacle , leaving one for the cane , if preferred . |
| 29 | She has produced one full of legal terms for the Guardian Gazette , the Journal of the Law Society ; one on the stock exchange for Investors ' Chronicle ; one for the Vegetarian in which she was required to make propaganda against meat eating . |
| 30 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |