Example sentences of "is [coord] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the multitude of words there wants no transgression ; therefore let thy words be few , ’ is but one admonition regularly repeated in scripture and the sayings of the fathers . |
| 2 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 4 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 5 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 6 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 7 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 8 | The AEC is but one example of a number of fruitful initiatives undertaken by practitioners in and through the medium of counselling , assisting , directing and monitoring . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 10 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 11 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 12 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 13 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 14 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 15 | The association of station departures with death and transfiguration ( cf. the Stations of the Cross ? ) is but one aspect of a wider concern with identifying the particular mystique of the station . |
| 16 | Although the proposed method is novel , it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model ‘ clusters ’ of disease ( see , for example , Cuzick and Edwards 1990 ) . |
| 17 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 18 | Thus they claim that modern Western science is but one of a galaxy of alternative explanatory schemes , and that what constitutes knowledge and reasoning is relative to norms defined by society . |
| 19 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 20 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 21 | This is but one variation on a theme — other legends state that the relevant time is midnight , cock crow , sunrise or noon . |
| 22 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 23 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 24 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 25 | Instead , he argues , one must recognize ‘ a long series of endeavours to resolve persistent questions concerning the duties of the individual , the family and the community in provision for the less fortunate ’ , of which the twentieth-century saga of state pensions is but one chapter . |
| 26 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 27 | Even the General Staff is but one actor in an increasingly complex policy process . |
| 28 | The participation of pathologists in the team effort of investigators seeking the cause of an aircraft accident is but one example of the way specialists are brought in to apply their particular knowledge to the overall problem . |
| 29 | This is but one example of what can happen . |
| 30 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |