Example sentences of "one [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission wants two environment funds , one for conservation and one to promote clean technologies — both to be effective in 1984 . |
| 2 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 3 | No one expects every one to hit these targets in the middle , but at least they should be in sight and the marksman should be provided with a gun that shoots straight . |
| 4 | The concessions impressed the public , but were worthless without a new policy decision at the same political level as the original one to re-introduce interrogation-in-depth techniques . |
| 5 | Their steepness leads one to infer modern erosion due to their great exposure , but there is no wavecut bench to indicate any erosion . |
| 6 | Such a camera has the advantage of interchangeable lenses such as wide angle or telephoto lenses , thus enabling one to obtain superbly-focused photographs under varying conditions . |
| 7 | There existed no organization to cope with the rising dangers of German espionage nor one to obtain secret intelligence on German military expansion . |
| 8 | ‘ I was the first one to experience this sort of pressure , while players like Ian Wright and Keith Curle can go for extraordinary amounts but they escaped because they were not the record signings . |
| 9 | The diagram below shows certain relationships between economic agents , and enables one to identify some lines of reconstruction of those relationships . |
| 10 | Here is one to cover 11 selections and cuts the number of lines from a full perm of 8 from 11 ( 165 ) to a mere 39 ! |
| 11 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 12 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |
| 13 | There 's a slot to fill this week , another one to fill next week and so on . ’ |
| 14 | It is obvious that historical perspectives oblige one to give due weight to the passage of time and to see ideas about duty or obligation , and patterns of support associated with them , as features of family relationships which are adapted to suit the prevailing economic and social conditions . |
| 15 | This happens to some extent with ordinary languages : in Malagasy one has to make it clear whether a ‘ we ’ is inclusive or exclusive , while in Navajo using the verb ‘ to go ’ requires one to give some clues about returning . |
| 16 | Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today , but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things . |
| 17 | Another alternative is a special lens which screws onto the front of the standard lens and enables one to do close-up photography . |
| 18 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 19 | The post was designated as a rotational one to ensure periodic changes in theoretical outlook . |
| 20 | Whereas in Chomskian grammar the basic approach is ‘ top-down ’ , with transformation rules sometimes applying in ways that require one to consider syntactic environments beyond the immediate focus of application , the picture in Montague grammar is simpler , in a way more congenial to our evolutionary picture . |
| 21 | A complete specification of the turbulence again requires one to consider all orders up to infinity . |
| 22 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 23 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 24 | Through its lexical meaning of a movement from point A to point B , to allows one to represent two positions of the infinitive event 's spatial support in time — one before , and one at the beginning of the infinitive 's event — which correspond to the two representations of person — extra- and intra-infinitival — involved in any use of the infinitive . |
| 25 | At first , 's uncertainty principle might lead one to suppose that high-resolution is sacrificed if one works on such short timescales . |
| 26 | One to house four ferrets should not be less than 3 feet ( 1 metre ) tall at the front and have a sloping roof . |
| 27 | Does n't it rather vitiate the nature of Cabinet government , though , if a decision , like the one to remove all exchange control , a very fundamental one for any economy , is in fact worked up , although it goes to full Cabinet in the end , in such a body ? |
| 28 | He then declared that he and those with him on the platform had pledged themselves to pay no fines and refused to be bound over , ‘ and we have authorised no one to pay these fines for us . |
| 29 | since unknown , unsigned acts have no one to compose such epistles but themselves , there is a great opportunity to bring a little sunshine into a cynical hack 's life . |
| 30 | After all , they 've a new one to learn this year — Ding Ding Merrily on High . |