Example sentences of "[noun sg] is the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob 's already indicated that he does n't , he wants to do everything he possibly can to avoid us having to affect service levels okay , and obviously the overtime is the one thing that really is , stands out as being the issue anything else cos I mean our salary costs are there , there or thereabouts erm with the temps in it , erm we know we 've got erm some temps . |
| 2 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 3 | Flight Simulator is the one exception , as it animation is too jerky under Windows . |
| 4 | Live work is the one area where the artists and audience meet face to face . |
| 5 | Flexibility is the LX keyword : flexibility in design : flexibility in delivery — total flexibility to suit the particular needs of the client . |
| 6 | I assume that the ‘ definitive ’ state of Fairy Queen is the 1692 material with the 1693 material added . |
| 7 | The best on road type is the XC type 4 as fitted on 110 vehicles , for more off road use the XCL offers good on and off road manners but is a directional tread pattern and has to be fitted the correct way round . |
| 8 | The liver is the one organ in the abdomen in which MRI has been shown to be slightly better than computed tomography in the detection of focal lesions . |
| 9 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 10 | From the period between the two World Wars , the main surviving agreement on the laws of war is the 1925 Geneva Protocol on Gas and Bacteriological Warfare . |
| 11 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |
| 12 | Drinking brilliantly at the moment is the 1990 Cabernet Franc from Vigneti le Monde ( £68.94 from Bibendum ) . |
| 13 | Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally . |
| 14 | Swimming is the one sport in which black people trail behind whites . |
| 15 | Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses . |
| 16 | Health and safety is the one area where shop stewards , safety representatives have to deal with on a daily basis . |
| 17 | Your wedding day is the one time in your life that you can live out your wildest dreams and most romantic fantasies . |
| 18 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 19 | For better or for worse , DOS is the one thing which unites PCs and their users . |
| 20 | This procedure is the one labelled{ 3 . |
| 21 | This boot is the 1991 update of an earlier model . |
| 22 | Mulberry is the one company to have successfully transcended the difference between city and country — probably because they are all true classics . |
| 23 | After I came back from America , I decided to go into business , you see , and naturally tourism is the one business that wo n't fail — not with our climate , and with the lovely beaches around Samana . ’ |
| 24 | Slater reckons ‘ Apple is the one company that will make PowerPC happen ’ . |
| 25 | Another example is the three allophones of /1/ : clear , dark and devoiced respectively in little place . |
| 26 | One notorious example is the 5.5 km of the east side of the Spurn peninsula on Humberside . |
| 27 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 28 | Unhysterically told , the message is that the cocaine trade is the one branch of American commerce that these thoroughly American kids are allowed into . |
| 29 | The focus of the paper is the 147 cricketers known to have died from unnatural causes ( excluding suicide ) . |
| 30 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |