Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] that one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sad to see that one of my favourite landmarks , R. Soles the shoe shop , has closed down . |
| 2 | For example , it may be possible to determine that one group of contexts represents a building , which was covered by a group of contexts representing a paved area , which in turn was covered by a group of contexts representing another building , etc . |
| 3 | You should be able to see that one bed knits on each row . |
| 4 | I 'm pleased to say that one of them came from Tommy Joy . |
| 5 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 6 | Nor will those who understand the real spirit of his scepticism be surprised to hear that one of his companions was the Bible . |
| 7 | ‘ I am proud to say that one of our comrades is in this very squadron . |
| 8 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |
| 9 | Colleagues were delighted to learn that one of the Library 's senior staff , Miss Margaret Wilkes , Head of the Map Library , had received the Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society at an award ceremony on 5 October . |
| 10 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 11 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 12 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 13 | Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory . |
| 14 | Watching Laura , it is hard to believe that one year ago this chubby child from Manchester with the tangle of blonde curls was a jaundiced , wasted waif , waiting to die . |
| 15 | It is hard to believe that one architect created all three : the dour , round-arched entrance front , the blandly conventional west front and the garden front serenely composed about its canted bay with female heads , heraldic complexities and subtle drapes of rustication . |
| 16 | IN these bleak times it is good to see that one veteran television star has succeeded in resurrecting his career . |
| 17 | So it 's comforting to know that one word is all you need specify in order to meet the new standards : Pilkinsulation . |
| 18 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 19 | This argument is perfectly true , but it is important to remember that one step of motor position produces a load movement which is only a fraction 1 /N of the motor 's step . |
| 20 | In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with . |
| 21 | If a case falls midway between two authorities , this may indicate that there is a fundamental conflict of principle between the two authorities , and that it is necessary to hold that one of them was wrongly decided . |
| 22 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |
| 23 | But it is tempting to suspect that one reason for Mr Major 's reluctance to shake out his cabinet is that he can not think who to put there instead . |
| 24 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 25 | But the seeming ‘ either/or ’ conflict suggested by these opposing views does not exist ; leadership styles can vary in degrees , ranging from extreme Theory X to extreme Theory Y. McGregor was unable to prove that one extreme was objectively better than another ( ie. more productive ) nor could he disprove that a middle of the road leadership style might not be better . |