Example sentences of "one [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opposition have complained for years that our determination to maintain an essential minimum safeguard for our country with a nuclear deterrent was somehow an obstacle to the necessary task of reducing the overblown nuclear arsenals of the super-powers , but President Yeltsin dealt with their arguments in one wholly destructive answer . |
| 2 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 3 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 4 | One happy participant in the march planned in Johannesburg will be Mr Sisulu 's wife , Albertina , who , in the one thankfully concrete news development of the day , had her restriction orders lifted by the police yesterday morning . |
| 5 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 6 | It was as well that I did , however , for one most distinguished-looking lady of very advanced years moved to my table from the group of her friends who had been assisted indoors . |
| 7 | One most unfortunate consequence of the Counter-Reformation must be mentioned . |
| 8 | This has one most significant aspect in that soil conservation is not singled out as a specific and separate problem to be solved by a particular policy — it is conceived of as normal practice and must be incorporated into the business of improving incomes for farmers . |
| 9 | SIR , — As an addition to Professor Feder 's thoughtful article on Paracelsus ( May 29 , p 1396 ) , I would like to draw attention to one most important finding of this giant predecessor of medicine . |
| 10 | In one most important sense , the bogging down was quite literal . |
| 11 | One most distressing aspect of all institutions is the lack of privacy . |
| 12 | Table 10.2 The division of labour within couples with at least one economically active partner , England and Wales |
| 13 | One widely accepted explanation is that the ordering of information is determined by the sender 's hypotheses about what the receiver does and does not know . |
| 14 | One widely used criterion for dividing up the cerebral cortex is the organization of inputs from the thalamus . |
| 15 | There was the interview in the morgue between Jamieson and Detective Blake , whom John Shrapnel has made into the one compulsively watchable character so far . |
| 16 | You ca n't solve one little corner , one little technical hiccup so you 'll throw a hundred years of decent work out the window and replace it with sci-fi fantasies . |
| 17 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 18 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION ( above ) release their second One Little Indian LP on March 18 and have announced a massive UK tour through March and April . |
| 19 | Happy , that is , except for one little human weakness , which I have sworn to overcome . ’ |
| 20 | Now I know what you 're going to say , ’ he continued , holding up one expensively gloved hand to forestall Ellie 's objections , ‘ that clothes are expensive and that you do not have the means . |
| 21 | One apparently isolated incident can vividly illustrate a more generalized pattern of family life . |
| 22 | Conventionalism provides one apparently attractive answer to that question . |
| 23 | One long cased clock . |
| 24 | One long sandy beach surrounds a huge calm bay with crystal clear green water near the shore changing to blue as the sky deepens . |
| 25 | She smoothed down the skirt of her linen suit , slowly crossing one long slender leg over the other . |
| 26 | She sent him one long descriptive prose account , but kept her own poems to herself This exploratory phase of their amorous correspondence was interrupted on 23 June . |
| 27 | Your whole life 's spent in one long thoughtless whirl , I should imagine . |
| 28 | ‘ We have often smiled , ’ he wrote , ‘ at the earnestness with which he advocated his project for girdling London round with one long drain-like tunnel … ’ |
| 29 | It is one long sad story of complaining and discontent . |
| 30 | One long straight road runs like a main vein down the arm of Grand Isle . |