Example sentences of "[that] one [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I could train full-time like MacFarlane and that-s one of the things that 's kept me going : to know that , as a junior , I was as fast as MacFarlane . |
| 2 | In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with . |
| 3 | Typical of many letters was one which Milton received from the provost of one of the royal burghs in 1740 , reporting that one of the councillors was wavering in his political loyalty . |
| 4 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 5 | ‘ failed to comply with the conditions subject to which it was granted ’ Means that one of the conditions of the provisional licence has not been complied with , i.e. failing to display ‘ L ’ plates in this case |
| 6 | If it is required to positively identify the components , it is recommended that one of the parents is made homozygous for a marker chromosome such as T6 ( Section 5.1 ) . |
| 7 | You should then find that one of the buds near the break point becomes dominant over the others and can be trained to take the place of the original leader . |
| 8 | One day , however I noticed that one of the zoanthids had disappeared . |
| 9 | Could I remind the Prime Minister that one of the consequences of his Maastricht agreement is to prevent Northern Ireland from participating in the new cohesion fund , to the extent of losing tens of millions of pounds ? |
| 10 | Aquino , who had initially opposed any retention of US bases within her country , characterized the new treaty as " a straightforward , pragmatic investment in our economic future " , and warned senators that one of the consequences of rejecting the treaty would be " the derailment of plans for the modernization of the armed forces " . |
| 11 | It seems to me unavoidable that one of the consequences would be to take more greenbelt land in West Yorkshire . |
| 12 | It seems clear that one of the effects of this is that more people are fearful both for their own future and for that of the person who has died . |
| 13 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |
| 14 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 15 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 16 | Price Waterhouse , the government 's adviser on the sale , has admitted that one of the reasons for the secrecy surrounding the sale was to ensure the highest possible price for BTG . |
| 17 | It could be argued that one of the reasons for the social division in the area might be the fact that those in charge of the paraphernalia of research did in a sense predefine conflict in this way . |
| 18 | But those who hate the nostalgia of the elderly should remember that one of the reasons why they want to talk so much about the past may be that , for them , the present is unbearable , and the future unthinkable . |
| 19 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 20 | Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel . |
| 21 | Good advisers will remind clients that one of the reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like |
| 22 | Judy Rumbold suggested in the Guardian that one of the reasons for the maleness of your work was that you both had domineering mothers . |
| 23 | On the phone from Canada , he jokes that one of the reasons he got involved was to get over the abortive attempts by Hollywood to film one of his scripts . |
| 24 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 25 | A source tells us that one of the reasons SunSoft Inc has been so discreet about Spring and Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) object-oriented stuff , is that it does n't want Microsoft Corp to know too much . |
| 26 | Robert Boyle once said that one of the reasons why he had chosen not to be ordained was to preempt the criticism that his pious remarks about nature merely reflected a vested interest . |
| 27 | It has already been pointed out that one of the reasons for setting an advertising strategy is to assess the effectiveness of the advertisement . |
| 28 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 29 | A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’ |
| 30 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |