Example sentences of "be [verb] one [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can be given one more magic item from Warhammer or Warhammer Magic at the standard points cost . |
| 2 | Ringa Hustle raced home a 5-2 winner … he may be given one more race in Ireland before they retire him to stud … |
| 3 | Hartlepool Council officials are to be given one last chance to persuade the government that they should be given a slice of its City Challenge cash . |
| 4 | And do n't imagine that just because he 's got to go back on Saturday , we sha n't be seeing one another again . ’ |
| 5 | He could be forgiven one disappointing season with a track record like that . |
| 6 | You 'll each be designated one particular area . |
| 7 | Within the NHS the Government requirement for ancillary services to be offered to private as well as ‘ in house ’ tenders can be considered one such strategic objective . |
| 8 | If anything , he looked younger and fitter , he 'd certainly kept himself in trim , although the hair was thinning and he seemed to be cultivating one long strand on the right side which could be plastered over the scalp . |
| 9 | To these must be added one further ingredient , the arts . |
| 10 | Canoes and gear had to be carried one third of a mile beyond the falls . |
| 11 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 12 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 13 | Edinburgh council alone is thought to be owed one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 14 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 15 | Spare time will be even more scarce shortly because we will be losing one full time man — Graeme , our student from Durham , leaves at the end of July . |
| 16 | SINN Fein councillors who return to their seats in local government next month should be asked one simple question : ‘ Do you support the bombing of the Grand Opera House , the Europa Hotel and the Ulster Unionist Party headquarters ? ’ |
| 17 | Let me repeat , in Darcy 's Utopia Church and State will be firmly separated : religious broadcasting will be forbidden on the grounds that it is divisive , racist , sexist , and an incitement to violence as belief structure clashes with belief structure — Christian at the hands of the Jew , Hindu the Muslim , Protestant the Catholic , Sikh of Buddhist , Capitalist of Communist , and of course vice versa — and no doubt the Moonies and the EST-ites will soon be kneecapping one another with a clear conscience . |
| 18 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 19 | And if they keep on coming first past the post … they 'll be queuing one hundred deep for a place in the winners enclosure with their very own favourite |
| 20 | Now he could be initiated one vital stage further into the cult of Dorn . |
| 21 | The youths seem to be following one another in a circle on a white marble plinth and their nude figures add a certain aesthetic touch to the hedged alcove in which they shelter . |
| 22 | Aye , they seemed to be following one another up the road . |