Example sentences of "[noun sg] be one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Proposals to introduce mandatory re-entry programmes for nurses and health visitors linked to periodic relicensing are one way of maintaining a safe level of practice , and a logical step forward in promoting the importance of maintaining such safety .
2 A raised serum CRP concentration is one measure of the combination of events known as the ‘ acute phase response ’ .
3 Now times are hard and selling the family silver is one way of keeping Harcourt Manor in good condition .
4 The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction .
5 Glory by association was one explanation for the phenomenon , gullibility and impressionability were two more .
6 In practice , although this way of thinking was one perspective from which we looked at our material , it proved much less useful than we expected .
7 The widespread opposition , especially from some army members of parliament , to lending Soviet troops in any form to the anti-Iraqi coalition was one factor in the resignation last December of the Soviet foreign minister , Edward Shevardnadze .
8 By 1990 , the figure was one peer for every 48,000 people .
9 The gifts to the judge were one aspect of his knowledge of the case which would influence his decision .
10 So the domestic political and economic cost of go-it-alone adventurism is one constraint on America 's freedom of action overseas .
11 And the spirit and courage of the men who continue to toil in the shadow of the gunman is one way of ensuring that will never happen .
12 The law is one source of such principles .
13 This anthropocentric view and attitude is one facet of what is frequently identified as the realism of the fabliaux .
14 Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas .
15 Compulsory rural work for graduate trainees at Unilever 's Indian subsidiary is one example of corporate social responsibility going global .
16 And make-up is one way of expressing that individuality .
17 Sport is one vehicle for such self-expression .
18 The architecture is one part of an even bigger architecture — outlined in the Networking Blueprint last March .
19 The first type comprises nine copies of Oedipus ( the editing sub-system ) , and the second type is one copy of the environmental control sub-system ( the operating system , the database , proofing routines and general purpose software ) .
20 An amnesty campaign is one way in which police forces can draw a great deal of local attention to the threat of knives and what can be done about it .
21 But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth .
22 That charm is one ingredient in a package which is part natural , part manufactured .
23 So , encouraging tenants or people on the waiting list to move into private ownership is one way of releasing more of our own stock for those in need . ’
24 Encouraging tenants or people on the waiting list to move into private ownership is one way of releasing more of our own stock for those in need . ’
25 This is not surprising , since metaphor is one way of extending the lexical resources of language .
26 Non-conformist outrage at the Education Act was one reason for the Conservative defeat in the election of December 1905 .
27 Intellectual revolt was one source of militant anticlericalism .
28 From these definitions you will see that crime and delinquency are one form of deviance ( strictly speaking , delinquency refers to anti-social and illegal behaviour , but in sociology it is usually linked with ‘ juvenile ’ and used to refer to the criminality and misconduct of youths ) .
29 Provision of asthma care in the community is one example of the problems we face .
30 Anyway , ethnicity is one way of filling the empty containers of nationalism .
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