Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [conj] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Am American system is one of , as I 've said , a dispersed , limited and shared form of authority and the president is but one actor , and in Reagan 's case not a very good one , in that particular er set of arrangements . |
| 2 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 3 | In the present context , the question is whether one State can enter into a treaty on behalf of another . |
| 4 | The participation of pathologists in the team effort of investigators seeking the cause of an aircraft accident is but one example of the way specialists are brought in to apply their particular knowledge to the overall problem . |
| 5 | What is of immediate importance is the realisation , often lost sight of when discussing procedure , that adjudication is but one form of decision-making . |
| 6 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 7 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |
| 8 | ( i ) " Active Play " discs ( CAV : Constant Angular Velocity ) The essential property of these for education is that one revolution of the disc produces one frame of video at any point on the disc . |
| 9 | The debate about social welfare is but one example of the way even the multi-dimensional negotiation is organized around the general commitment to preserving Japan 's existing social priorities . |
| 10 | The typical pattern is that one box will show more ticks than any of the others , but there may be one or two further boxes with scores not far behind . |
| 11 | The unwritten rule of this knowledge/power game is that one set of rather benign standards are applied to texts produced by ‘ ethnic ’ writers ( black , Jewish , Irish etc. ) and other far more critical ones to work produced by those who lack such ‘ authorizations ’ . |
| 12 | Voluntary organisations ' relationship with government is but one aspect . |
| 13 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 14 | One reason is that one clue for recession-watchers , the build-up of manufactured stocks ( inventories ) , is not much of a guide to a financial recession . |
| 15 | Another puzzle is that one kind of large reptile survived — the crocodiles . |
| 16 | This sweeping and quite unsubstantiated assertion is but one man 's opinion and has no more weight than another 's , for example , my own which is completely contrary . |
| 17 | One commentator suggests that : " the essence of agency is that one person is entrusted with the power to act for another in that other 's interest , a clause enabling him without warning on a particular occasion to act in his own interest , or in the interest of another principal , seems plainly inconsistent with the whole nature of fiduciary responsibility . " |
| 18 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 19 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 20 | In this the basic assumption is that a particular change is but one part of a dynamic , continuous process in which the users are engaged . |
| 21 | The AEC is but one example of a number of fruitful initiatives undertaken by practitioners in and through the medium of counselling , assisting , directing and monitoring . |
| 22 | The effect of one cycle of this algorithm is that one node and its near neighbours are moved closer to the current input . |
| 23 | The modern census is but one expression of this movement , as well as the development and vastly increased scope of economic statistics and other methods of social accounting . |
| 24 | But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government . |
| 25 | Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material . |
| 26 | However , this type 23 order is but one part of a substantial on-going programme of vessels for the Royal Navy . |
| 27 | Implied in the diagram is that one LECTURER can give more than one COURSE ( Fred , for example , gives business studies and computer science ) and one COURSE is given by more than one LECTURER ( maths by Tom and Dave , for example ) — a many-to-many relationship . |
| 28 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 29 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 30 | Claudia , the problem is that one Masai , cruel as this may sound , is not considered very important . |