Example sentences of "one [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are roughly three kinds all of which can use one or a mixture of dance styles . |
| 2 | There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle . |
| 3 | Normally intended for Honours graduates in an appropriate subject who wish to study one or a combination of two of the following subjects in a Scottish context : traditional tales and songs ; ethnomusicology ; social life and history ; custom and belief ; material culture ; place-names . |
| 4 | For a corporation like Unilever , which has a number of companies in its overall control , the boundary may be defined to include one or a number of these companies . |
| 5 | See which come along first , a red one or a blue ? |
| 6 | That 's what it er seems like erm if there 's a police car you can bet your life the chances are there 's gon na be another one or an ambulance if there 's been an accident . |
| 7 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 8 | If you are wondering , for instance , why The Instant Calorie and Fibre Chart lists only three quarters of an ounce of shredded wheat and then an ounce or more of other cereals , ask yourself whether you have ever seen anyone eat one and a quarter , or perhaps one and one third , shredded wheats … |
| 9 | All around there is a buzz of nervous tension as everyone present prepares for the next one and a quarter hour 's worth of pure adrenalin flow . |
| 10 | During the nineteenth century , another thirteen hundred acts and awards brought , or attempted to bring , another one and a quarter million acres of heath and moor and commons under cultivation . |
| 11 | or one and a quarter or one and a half or whatever |
| 12 | What 's your other one and a half ? ’ |
| 13 | or one and a quarter or one and a half or whatever |
| 14 | I only done one and a half ! |
| 15 | He started to play one and a look of pain flickered across Blanche 's face as if someone was trying to shave her legs with a blunt razor . |
| 16 | Is he a big one and a canary ? |
| 17 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , the present scene is a varied one and a number of factors contribute to the way in which a missionary situation is tackled by the Church . |
| 19 | ‘ Where no one but a Welshman is likely to be able to track them . |
| 20 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |
| 21 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 22 | No one but a native would consider such details , uninformative to the outsider , as worthy of note . |
| 23 | No one but a Socialist stands a chance of promotion or employment under the Council today . |
| 24 | ‘ Surely no one but a madman … ’ |
| 25 | Not a terribly expensive one but a calendar would do fine . |
| 26 | It was far too hot to wear one but an interview demanded the formality , although why his authority as a questioner should depend on the smallest degree on what he was wearing he could not say . |