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 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you this , but — but one of the walled gardens is locked up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You have beautiful legs , ’ Ray tried , but one of the other men had already told her that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 16 | None of the drawers of the bureau was locked but one of the little ones under the lid had been prised open , splitting the wood . |
| 17 | ‘ But one of the leading consultants said his calcium levels were too high and there was a danger that he might slip into a coma . |
| 18 | Another possible explanagion of the association between the PGC RFLP and gastric ulcer disease is that the PGC gene is not itself responsible for the predisposition but one of the responsible genes is closely linked to it . |
| 19 | Michael Martin , a 50-year-old management consultant and author of business books , spoke for most of the crew when he told us : ‘ The circumnavigation is a fantasy , but one of the big questions is what are we going to do when we get back . ’ |
| 20 | But one of the main problems highlighted by the report was ignorance of existing health and safety guidelines , produced in 1988 by the Health and Safety Commission ( HSC ) and the Sports Council in a document called Safety in Swimming Pools . |
| 21 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 22 | In a moment I will produce the recipe — and please , will readers do their best to suspend disbelief until they have tried it ? — but one of the main points about this recipe is that it taught me ( for after all , one does not buy lobsters all that often ) that anisette is , improbably but incontrovertibly , a quite magical ingredient in fish dishes and sauces . |
| 23 | But one of the main causes of the recent remand explosion has been a tremendous increase in the length of time spent on remand ( Morgan , 1999 ) . |
| 24 | But one of the unavoidable items on the agenda , in any United Nations process , will be the Arab- Israeli conflict . |