Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] the things " in BNC.
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1 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
2 | But erm sewage was to be one of the things I shall never forget , later on . |
3 | It seems to be one of the things actually that people that are home on holiday to Orkney , you know , maybe you have lived here in the past and Orkney cheese is one of the things they want to take back with them , a farmhouse cheese . |
4 | So but that might be one of the things that you need to look at I mean once sh she may have dif because of the difficulties in communicating with other staff and |
5 | But I think I had imagined it would it would allow , if it was wanted , it would allow I eleven to be overridden it would be one of the things it would be an exception to . |
6 | Yes , I think there is a fair point there but er I do n't know whether you listeners appreciate that nobody at all , whether disabled or not will have to repay the student loan after they 've graduated if their income is below 85% of the national average wage , which is currently 11,500 pounds , er we are recognising that they do face some additional costs er when they 've graduated and that should be taken into account and that will be one of the things in our concession . |
7 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
8 | ‘ Uniforms are one of the things that create barriers and being in mufti will help nursing staff to be identified as individuals by patients . ’ |
9 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
10 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
11 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
12 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
13 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
14 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
15 | But in the background you can hear the murmur of other people 's activity and this , Smith argues , is one of the things which makes Shared Ark work . |
16 | The fossil record is full of curious plants that do not fit comfortably into classifications — this is one of the things that makes the study of fossil plants so fascinating . |
17 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
18 | ‘ And keeping women in chains is one of the things I 'm going to crusade against now I 'm free . ’ |
19 | That is one of the things that writing does : it entices the reader into an ‘ unreal ’ world , a world ‘ really ’ only composed of funny marks on a page , and through those marks makes the reader consider something which may form no part of normal life . |
20 | Because praise is one of the things that will help them keep it up . |
21 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
22 | And this is one of the things we rarely do . |
23 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
24 | Stable differentiation is the normal state of affairs , and the existence of this variation is one of the things that makes linguistic change possible , in that the different variants can be latched on to by different groups and for different social functions : thus , the patterns of consensus can change in the course of time . |
25 | This attitude is one of the things that has given non-verbal communication such a bad name and since it already has a somewhat shaky reputation due to the fact that it has no powerful theory associated with it , its academic credibility suffers in comparison to that of formal linguistics . |
26 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
27 | And when we 're talking about defensive techniques , anticipation obviously is one of the things which is the hallmark of the top drivers is n't it ? |
28 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
29 | And of course during the strike period er this is one of the things he used to supplement our meals with you see . |
30 | ‘ This is one of the things I would prefer to understand . ’ |