Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's May sales of fine eighteenth-century French furniture and decorations revealed again that this field remains one of the strongest and most recession-proof areas of the art market . |
| 2 | Using this technique required one camera pointed at the live set , another pointed at an easel bearing a large , mounted photograph a caption slide . |
| 3 | This measure constituted one of the last steps towards the removal of all restrictions on the free movement of capital within the EC as envisaged in stage one of the Delors plan for economic and monetary union due to be completed by July 1 , 1990 [ see pp. 36598 ; 37132 ] . |
| 4 | This division reflects one of several points of contrast between the Siberian natives and those of northern North America . |
| 5 | This writer remembers one Good Friday sermon in an Anglican parish church in which the preacher referred to the crucifixion not as the self-offering of God 's only Son and an event unique in man 's history but as an example of the ‘ little man ’ being maltreated by the all-powerful state . |
| 6 | But although this hypothesis removes one difficulty it creates several more , as indicated by Guilcher ( 1958 ) . |
| 7 | This tragi-comedy explores one man 's promising suicide attempt , and comprises an unholy alliance between Helen Trew , Richard Orr , musician Jules Maxwell and actor Peter Knight . |
| 8 | This research explores one area of regulation involving lay and professional people : the medical service committees which deal with complaints against GPs . |
| 9 | The beginnings of preoccupation with educational evaluation described at the end of this chapter represents one response , the prospect of more widespread training , examined in Chapter 9 , another . |
| 10 | To demonstrate something of the scope of the task which children have to undertake , this chapter examines one area of written discourse where language use deviates widely from the nearest oral counterparts , and where many variants have no oral counterpart at all . |
| 11 | In the absence of an independently resourced organisation with a specific brief to preserve systems and applications software this programme represents one practical step we can take . |
| 12 | The Centre intends as the final project in this programme to conduct one or more surveys of salient work organisation characteristics in order to secure comparative data on the extent of variation in work organisation both within and between sectors . |
| 13 | This question indicates one of the reasons why I ask patients to answer questions as spontaneously as possible . |
| 14 | However , at Halling he was soon engaged in repairing the Palace and started to build a new hall , this work taking one year and fifteen months and costing £120 , a quite staggering sum 650 years ago . |
| 15 | The coarse sand produces soils which are very free-draining , and this zone includes one of the most important arable farming areas of the county . |
| 16 | That has ten curators and this museum has one person and she is n't properly funded . |
| 17 | And after this sort spending one month there . |
| 18 | ‘ This room has one serious drawback , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Any hit from this weapon drains one point of S , T , or W ( roll D6 : 1–2 S , 3–4 T , 5–6 W ) permanently in addition to normal damage . |
| 20 | This announcement met one of the key demands of the opposition groups . |
| 21 | An upwelling current of hot liquid , be it tea or mantle , carries a lot of heat with it , and this factor provided one of the starting points for the new Plate Tectonic ideas . |
| 22 | And at least this court has one advantage over others : we know the extent to which disclosure of the P.C.A. documents was made during the course of the appeal hearing . |
| 23 | According to Kuhn and McPartland , this procedure overcomes one weakness of direct questions aimed at uncovering people 's self-images , which is that |
| 24 | This claim illuminates one of the recurrent features of the military history of the period ; the frequent presence of the men of one civitas or another on campaign , above all during the civil wars which bedevilled the second half of the sixth century , when rivalry between cities seems to have exacerbated problems . |
| 25 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 26 | This example illustrates one of the many ways in which unconscious , non-linguistic processes may act to control conscious and linguistic articulation . |
| 27 | The worst and most significant job loss , in the overall period 1981 to 1987 , was met in Cleveland ( 32.9 per cent ; see Chapter 10 ) , and this area demonstrates one of the severest proportionate ‘ differential shifts ’ among those mapped at Figure 5.4B , along with Greater London and Merseyside . |
| 28 | Most people 's basic list — at least to think about — under this heading includes one or more of the following : |
| 29 | In this space write one thing that you intend to do to improve your relationships with teachers . |
| 30 | This man spared one short glance at the crippled zek , then looked away , folded his gloved hands across his stomach and set himself to wait patiently . |