Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems it seems , that I can see about this , is that the little sort of semi- diagram , you could almost reverse the , the and have the same sort of problem in other words . |
| 2 | ‘ When a board decides to invite somebody to be a non-executive director , one of the questions it should be asking itself is : ‘ What value will this person add to the board ? ’ |
| 3 | One of the ingredients it requires is hydrogen , a gas that is produced in great quantities during volcanic eruptions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That 's one of the reasons it 's exciting for a botanist to work in the rainforest . |
| 6 | One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet . |
| 7 | And this is one of the reasons it has decided to go public — as a way of preserving its own identity and of winning itself recognition . |
| 8 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 9 | Well , one of the reasons it er , bucked the trend was because |
| 10 | Yeah , one of the reasons it bucked the trend was because we 've erm , ground one of our competitors into the dust and he 's had to combine with another newspaper there and that too is struggling . |
| 11 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 12 | Although emotionally loaded , the work does not have , as Bamert acknowledges , the direct appeal of earlier requiems , which may be one of the reasons it is seldom heard . |
| 13 | ‘ Britain 's less adaptable , less skilled work-force is one of the reasons it has got stuck trying to compete with the high volume , low-wage countries . ’ |
| 14 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 15 | Er , one of the things it wo n't tell you on here , whether it 's a blazing hot day , whether there 's snow on the ground or whether it 's just pouring , dull and people are coming along . |
| 16 | Now one of the things it did n't do , was it did n't pick any of your grammatical errors out . |
| 17 | Oh one of the things it 'll load shortly is er |
| 18 | But I think I had imagined it would it would allow , if it was wanted , it would allow I eleven to be overridden it would be one of the things it would be an exception to . |
| 19 | One of the services it is offering to attract the self-employed is an introduction to financial and legal consultants who are prepared to offer union members especially favourable fees for their advice ( see Financial Times , 31/3/87 and 30/4/87 ) . |
| 20 | Yeah , our ones ' actually got something on , especially one of the machines it 's got little spots across the screen saying do not . |
| 21 | Company chairman Mr Sam Whitbread admitted yesterday that selling the breweries was one of the options it considered . |
| 22 | One of the options it allows a speaker is to select the element acting as subject as a marked thematic choice , an option not normally available since the subject is the unmarked theme of a declarative clause in English . |
| 23 | One of the constraints it suffers is the dominance of a history which tends to be reduced to that of either missions or colonial discovery , with the implications that the Solomon Islanders themselves were a stagnant and unchanging people prior to the arrival of Europeans , a view reinforced by some of the dominant synchronic traditions in social anthropology . |
| 24 | That is a vacuum cleaner , that 's one of the functions it does |
| 25 | One of the elements it nearly always requires is a new senior team . |
| 26 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 27 | When someone did ring one of the numbers it was answered by a receptionist on behalf of ‘ Llewelyn and Lee ’ . |
| 28 | But they say the fish gets that 's one one of the symptoms it gets very bloated out . |
| 29 | And it 's for one of the regions it 's a closed one . |
| 30 | This is one of the issues it felt should be tackled in the UK whose system also , according to , convener of ICAS 's international tax committee , ‘ disadvantages British business operating internationally and taxes foreign companies trading in Britain less heavily than British ones . |