Example sentences of "that [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , in turn , suggests that between one quarter and one third of all country seats that existed in 1875 have been demolished . |
| 2 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | This shows that about one record in every 500 ( 0.2 per cent ) will be part of a chain of six records . |
| 4 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 5 | ‘ Do not believe that for one second , ’ he grated . |
| 6 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 7 | The hypothesis is advanced that for one set of parents the baptism is a religious ritual , whereas for the other it is a social one . |
| 8 | On occasions I looked at the casualty cards myself and identified potential clients that for one reason or another were not referred to me . |
| 9 | Nurses are invited to make it known that for one reason or another they may encounter difficulties in attending for work as scheduled . |
| 10 | The research in this initiative derives from the belief that for one reason or another , Britain 's economic decline stems at least in part from insufficient investment in innovation . |
| 11 | In her place she could n't have stood that for one moment , but neither could she take a man from his wife . |
| 12 | I recall , and perhaps you recall , too , Mr. Deputy Speaker , that during one election period George Buckley was accused of being an extremist . |
| 13 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 14 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 15 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 16 | Grant that they may always be confident of your presence with them and of their oneness with the whole family of Your church ; and grant that with one mind and one voice we may all worship You , O Christ , who with the Father and the Holy Spirit , reigns for evermore . |
| 17 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 18 | But remember that with one eye out of action , your stereoscopic vision is disabled and that means poor range perception . |
| 19 | Ianthe Broome , Daisy Pettigrew , Sister Dew and one or two others whose names she could never remember , now sat down round the table and began to discuss the final arrangements for the bazaar , which had always been exactly the same and always would be , except that from one year to another a pint more or less milk might be ordered for the teas . |
| 20 | ‘ … it is clear that , even on the absurd assumption that from one day to the next , or even from one generation to the next , the bourgeoisie would all take the places of workers and vice versa , nothing fundamental about capitalism would be changed , since the places of bourgeoisie and proletariat would still be there , and this is the principal aspect of the reproduction of capitalist relations ’ ( Poulantzas , 1975 , p. 33 ) . |
| 21 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 22 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 23 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 24 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 25 | Finally these examples in which to consent is to promise refute the suggestion that in one case the purpose is to confer rights and in the other to undertake an obligation . |
| 26 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 27 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 28 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 29 | Edith J. Morley , for instance , writes of the " inexplicable value " of great poetry , and advances the view that such poetry " can explain itself only " by existing " so that in one sense every attempt at an explanation , however worthwhile , is doomed in advance to failure , or , at best , only partial success . " |
| 30 | It is important to remember that in one sense , music , being a performed art , always has an ‘ oral ’ dimension , even when notated ; writing a score certainly affects how the music is conceived , but not absolutely , for performance may restore some inflectional , intuitive elements . |