Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 2 | On the phone from Canada , he jokes that one of the reasons he got involved was to get over the abortive attempts by Hollywood to film one of his scripts . |
| 3 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 4 | At first I thought that this emission indicated that one of the approximations I had used was not valid . |
| 5 | Remember that one of the things we are looking for is the ability to implement solutions . |
| 6 | Now things became so complicated that one of the things we did and I think I was partly instrumental in it , was to make sure that we carried this on all fire engines , you know we used to have this one at each divisional headquarters , probably forty miles away . |
| 7 | I mean is that because that because you 've made that one of the things you want to do , you want to avoid if possible or |
| 8 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 9 | The court has heard that she was arrested after police found out that one of the men she named appeared to be in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 10 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 11 | Leicester continue to blow hot and cold , although one of the reasons they looked a little below par in their first game was because they were playing a Gloucester side that could be a dark horse for the title . |
| 12 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
| 13 | Erm this is taken again from medieval pictures and one of the materials we use in this house quite a lot which is is horn . |
| 14 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 15 | ‘ We beat off intense competition to win and one of the reasons we did was because of the high level of investment made in equipment by NOS . ’ |
| 16 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 17 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 18 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 19 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 20 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 21 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 22 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 23 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 24 | During one committee meeting , the minister said : ‘ We are footing the bill , and one of the things we are footing the bill for is conservation advice . ’ |
| 25 | I interviewed Donald Watt , the leader of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team , and one of the things we talked about , both nodding sagely in agreement , was that people sometimes wear very stupid things on the hill . |
| 26 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 27 | And one of the things we did this year for example . |
| 28 | And one of the things we set out to do was to bring some stability to the industry because everyone was trying to carve prices up . |
| 29 | And one of the things we need to talk about tomorrow is how we put together a briefing |
| 30 | And one of the things we must n't do , in fact , is to assume that erm our seventeenth ancestor is just ourselves in funny clothes . |