Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 2 | One of the problems Steve has encountered is finding the exact locations of where some of the equipment was installed . |
| 3 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 4 | The consequence of this division is one of the problems Brooke-Rose set out to examine in Amalgamemnon : |
| 5 | ‘ Brigitte Krone : she was living with one of the families Gustav hid up with that winter . |
| 6 | NICK BELL marked his return for Oswestry seconds by hammering a fine 103 against St Georges reserve division One of the Furrows Shropshire League . |
| 7 | LEADING wicket taker Jim Philips is one of three key players to miss Oswestry 's home clash with Shrewsbury in Division One of the Furrows Shropshire League . |
| 8 | This is deliberate : in one of the adventures time spent in the Castle is of crucial importance . |
| 9 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 10 | The fact that one of the Games squad , Graeme Smith , had earlier applied , but then accepted the refusal of leave of absence to compete in the Grand Prix , means that action will need to be taken . |
| 11 | Fortunately , this tradesman knew one of the JAWS fieldworkers and took Beru to her . |
| 12 | Well last night only three days after the shadow cabinet elections one of the women MPs who was thrown off John Smith 's core team accused her male parliamentary colleagues of a cynical plot and a stitch-up . |
| 13 | The speaker was Mr Fairley , one of the nobs Sandy Roughead had mentioned . |
| 14 | One of the reasons Loop fell to bits was because we lost control of what was going on and did too many stupid things . |
| 15 | In fact , he said , one of the reasons IBM France decided to set up the new division was to cater for software partners and other customers . |
| 16 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 17 | Also , I see Peter Ndluvou ( ? ? ? ) is on the market ( one of the reasons Gould resigned ) . |
| 18 | One of the reasons Lukic went wobbly last season , apart from the trauma connected with the infamous Rangers punch , could have been the state of his ever-changing defence . |
| 19 | A sporting interest in pursuing such failures was one of the reasons John le Grant stayed with Nicholas . |
| 20 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 21 | Maybe one of the reasons Microsoft Corp 's NT is n't pegged to go on Sparc is because it 's little endian and Sparc is big endian : we 've heard that it would mean a major rewrite , something Bill Gates had n't figured on . |
| 22 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 23 | Perhaps one of the reasons SunPics resisted the idea , other than the fact that it jeopardises the planet 's whole raison d'etre , is that the deal was reportedly sprung on them a week before it was signed . |
| 24 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 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 | Was it one of the reasons Sylvie had hated her ? |
| 27 | I think that 's one of the reasons Tom was there . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | One of the reasons Russell mentions is the following : |
| 30 | His real name is James , or Jim , but he does n't pronounce it too well , " she continued , as the man deftly extracted the thick envelope containing one of the notes Katherine had written for Lee on the day of his departure . |