Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Lassman sought to suggest that this offence was aimed solely at hacking , and hacking , which is a word that finds no place in the Act , he says , means using one computer to access another . |
| 2 | In 1952 , in an article entitled ‘ Discourse Analysis ’ , he analysed an advertisement for hair tonic — from which he coyly omitted the brand name — and set about searching for grammatical rules to explain why one sentence followed another . |
| 3 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 4 | Marietta , Georgia-based , Maxtech Computer Technologies Inc has launched , Double Vision , remote control software for Intel Corp iAPX-86 Unix platforms : Double Vision allows one user to control another user 's terminal — both screens look identical to the user and the terminal 's keyboards are interchangeable . |
| 5 | Revolution is insurrection , an act of violence by which one caste overthrows another . |
| 6 | Imitation is another ; this is when one coin imitates another datable coin or other artefact , or vice versa , as in the case of some early Roman coins which were imitated on pottery that can be independently dated to 285–265BC . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the Bible we rarely possess two or more parallel documents where we can see how one writer used another as his source . |
| 9 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 10 | If in one election alter another considerable numbers of electors supporting the CDU/CSU or the SPD with their first votes had not switched their second votes to the FOP its representation in the Bundestag could have been reduced to insignificance or vanished altogether . |
| 11 | As one course followed another we began to wonder whether the meal would ever end . |
| 12 | In 1976 at Foxboro ‘ one fan stole another 's wheelchair , thirty were hospitalized , another stabbed . |
| 13 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 14 | As a speaker switches from animating one persona to animate another , the effect at the linguistic level may , for a bilingual speaker , be a code switch . |
| 15 | Then the man put his hand on the horse 's shoulder and began to scratch , as one horse nuzzles another when they have decided to be friends . |
| 16 | As the management will be aiming for maximum room and bed occupancy practice and experience will train the receptionist how to plan bookings on the conventional chart ( Fig. 3.11 ) so that one letting follows another and no gaps are left unnecessarily . |
| 17 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 18 | ( b ) the likelihood of the bid being contested or rival offers being made — it is not unknown for one bid to precipitate another ; |
| 19 | One girl asked another if she had had a lesson on computers that afternoon and when her friend replied in the affirmative her short comment was ‘ Dead boring , is n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | During the bus journey there the next day , one boy asked another what was wrong with him . |
| 21 | For example , an image is presented of one child threatening another . |
| 22 | It is interesting how often people get locked into a disagreeing ‘ spiral ’ where one disagreement breeds another which , in turn , breeds another and so on . |
| 23 | Beirut was bombed and the Israelis invaded Lebanon , thus leading to the revised version , ‘ When one war shuts another one opens . ’ |
| 24 | One confidence deserved another . |
| 25 | She at one point quotes another , James Barr , who says : ‘ The true believer is a believer in God and in Christ … |
| 26 | The huge revolving stage which allowed one band to follow another without break became a big attraction with dancers waving farewell to the retiring band and welcoming the new arrivals . |
| 27 | Alternatively , it may appear too acrobatic or athletic because the choreographer has been so concerned with the turning of the pages of a picture book that there is no explanation why one picture follows another and leads to another and yet another until the curtain falls . |
| 28 | Group marriages would therefore occur when one group married another . |
| 29 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 30 | The latter was reluctantly agreed to by Betty who thought that ‘ when one group sees another doing something more exciting they 'll be discontented ’ . |