Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [det] things " in BNC.

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1 One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns .
2 One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April .
3 This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races .
4 One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students .
5 One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated .
6 I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out .
7 It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank .
8 ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school .
9 One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used .
10 One of the many things my parents taught me was how to entertain properly .
11 One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours .
12 ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk .
13 One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’
14 One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire .
15 These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out .
16 Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure .
17 It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae .
18 One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans .
19 ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar .
20 Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at .
21 One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison .
22 ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said .
23 ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed .
24 These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning .
25 One of the few things certain about the outlook is that 1993 will be a difficult year financially .
26 One of the few things , erm , that I 'm really proud of about myself , is that I 've read all of them .
27 While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop .
28 While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop .
29 One of the few things predictable about future input technology is that it will include an optical scan element which will be at its best handling the output from IT related machines .
30 We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country .
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