Example sentences of "but one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 2 | But one of the great ironies of the second world war was that the freedom and democracy that was won back in Western Europe was largely paid for by the blood of Russians . |
| 3 | But one of the great problems with the new media is that , because the brain finds it difficult to do anything but process imagery and sound , it is n't left in a reflective state . |
| 4 | That was but one of the great waves of migration which took Europeans to the New World , Africa , and Asia in the period . |
| 5 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 6 | But one of the best stories in the Kelly collection concerns how he disrupted a social weekend in Northern Ireland for the former Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 7 | But one of the best ways of staying in touch is personal contact . |
| 8 | The program is menu driven but one of the best features is the ability to input new data at practically any stage , i.e. if you are entering an invoice and the product does not exist you are able to create it there and then without exiting to the previous menus . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you this , but — but one of the walled gardens is locked up . |
| 10 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 11 | But one of the unkind truths of tourism is that backward places are more appealing because they have changed much less ; the Upper Soule , in its more inaccessible parts , is just what many who come to the Pyrenees want : rawly natural . |
| 12 | But one of the oddest things about the anorexic is her ability to tolerate two deprivations in particular which others find quite intolerable , namely , cold and hunger . |
| 13 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 14 | It is not merely a sexual offence , but one of the deepest breaches of trust which can take place in a family-based society . |
| 15 | The geographer on the other hand , is primarily interested in how the landscape works , and in man 's interactions with it , and thus recognizes that water is but one of the terrestrial phenomena in the total complex interacting ecosystem in which he is really interested . |
| 16 | This is something where the local authority is the lead agency , but it does involve , increasingly involve very close joint working with other agencies , particularly in the health authority , and there were various conditions attaching the funds , which have a number of , of purposes , but one of the key ones in terms of where you must spend your money , or a proportion of it , was very much aimed at not destabilizing the existing sector . |
| 17 | But one of the striking lessons of much of social theory over the last 30 years ( picked out in Chapter 4 ) is that science — the apparently supreme epitome of rationality turns out to exhibit various kinds of non-rationality . |
| 18 | At pains to point out that ‘ O ’ Level Eng Lit. was the sole exam he had ever failed , Fordham 's continuing interest in these bizarre tutorials — in the face of ribald comment both from his colleagues and mine — was but one of the many facts which confirmed a certain singularity amongst cricketers . |
| 19 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 20 | But one of the first steps of the new UNO government may well be to wield its public-spending axe against health care . |
| 21 | ‘ You have beautiful legs , ’ Ray tried , but one of the other men had already told her that . |
| 22 | ( 1630–1714 ) , princess of the Palatinate and mother of George I , was born 14 October 1630 in The Hague , the youngest of five daughters and the youngest but one of the thirteen children of Frederick V ( 1596–1632 ) , elector Palatine ( 1610–32 ) and the ‘ winter king ’ of Bohemia ( 1619–21 ) , and his wife Elizabeth ( 1596–1622 ) , the daughter of James I. Born in exile , because of Frederick 's expulsion from Bohemia and the Palatinate , Sophia 's importance in history was derived from her parentage and from the unpredictable fate of the Stuarts . |
| 23 | Erm , being with the S S P C A , I have seen a lot of very sad pictures of animals , but one of the saddest photographs I saw , quite recently was two monkeys , well they 're primates , we are |
| 24 | Whether there is anything in that I can not say , but one of the golden rules of banking , ‘ once bitten , twice shy ’ , seems to be waived for Czechoslovaks . |
| 25 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 26 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 27 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 28 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 29 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 30 | But one of the biggest challenges for the skiers is the cross country , racing up and down over and across mountains . |