Example sentences of "one a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not give that one a go ? |
| 2 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 3 | His two profoundly moving ballets , Gloria and Requiem , the one a poem for lost youth and hope through the onset of war and the other a song of mourning and praise for a departed friend , stand and fall by theaudience 's response to their message and not to the pre-eminence of a star . |
| 4 | In principle it is extremely desirable , not only because of the basic ‘ otherness ’ of foreign poetry , but because such knowledge gives one a better sense of what English poetry can and can not do . |
| 5 | Headhunters are bound to find this one a challenge . |
| 6 | Michael Ramsey 's mother was one of nine children and of the brothers two were schoolmasters , two were clergymen , one an organist , and one a doctor . |
| 7 | Here were two future leaders of the Church of England , the one a man of supreme common sense , the other a mystic ; the one a conservative and establishment-man , the other a liberal and a reformer — they were fated never to understand each other . |
| 8 | Here were two future leaders of the Church of England , the one a man of supreme common sense , the other a mystic ; the one a conservative and establishment-man , the other a liberal and a reformer — they were fated never to understand each other . |
| 9 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 10 | And , as you descend steeply into the next valley , and round the Norman church , a line of eight gargoyles — one a benign lion , one a madman in mid-vomit , one a splendid , arrogant griffon . |
| 11 | And , as you descend steeply into the next valley , and round the Norman church , a line of eight gargoyles — one a benign lion , one a madman in mid-vomit , one a splendid , arrogant griffon . |
| 12 | Both are Hollywood-style productions , one a soppy Western , the other a slapstick item featuring a Chaplin lookalike . |
| 13 | The thunder with which this was greeted from the senior judiciary — every one a former barrister — forced the Lord Chancellor to produce his fudge : separate systems of accreditation with four senior judges given a veto over solicitors ' rights . |
| 14 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 15 | But why is one a ‘ mode ’ , and the other a ‘ substance ’ ? |
| 16 | So far we have thought of ownership and possession as sharply distinguished — the one a matter of right , the other of fact . |
| 17 | Gina always insisted on one a year , somewhere in Europe — wherever her obnoxious family was performing . |
| 18 | On the table was a vase of flowers , a square honeycomb oozing liquid honey from its wax holes onto the dish , three jars of jam , each one a different colour of dark red , and a jug with a muslin cloth over the top . |
| 19 | ‘ We call this one a Russet . |
| 20 | The shepherds run : one brings a basket , one a sheep |
| 21 | Again we were confronted by that vengeful force which stood in the way of same-sex lovers in Spain — especially if one was a foreigner , and one a Spaniard . |
| 22 | At the Passover Eve meal the stories of the plagues are recited , and with each one a finger is dipped in a glass of wine and a drop of the wine let fall on to a plate . |
| 23 | Tethered in the deep spaces on either side of the stove were the two dogs , Lady and Rosie , one a short-sighted bulldog of uncertain temperament , the other a bloody-minded Great Dane bent on demolishing or devouring everything that came within reach of her snapping teeth . |
| 24 | What he found difficult to accept was the size of the gap between winners and losers in a system in which inheritance could automatically make one a winner . |
| 25 | When you tip the seed from the packet it is hard to believe that from almost every one a plant will arise , so do not let them fall too thickly into the soil . |
| 26 | It says : ‘ It is not being beautiful or being born of noble family that makes one a lady . |
| 27 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 28 | The better news is that almost every other film — Allen has averaged around one a year since the late 1960s — is available . |
| 29 | The new editor shares with the retiring one a proper reverence for the game , balanced by an ability to stand back and view it with a perspective born of experience of other important things in life . |
| 30 | There is speculation about new political initiatives , each one a triumph of hope over 20 years ' experience . |