Example sentences of "it is one of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between them is neither one of upward development nor of contrast ; it is one of beginning and completion , of hope and fulfilment . |
| 2 | But it is one of history 's ironies that this castle , built to subdue the Welsh by an English king , was captured in 1404 by Owain Glyndwr . |
| 3 | Begun in 1283 by Edward I , it is one of Europe 's great medieval fortresses . |
| 4 | Club pro Bernard Gallacher told city journalist Matthew Bond : " The special thing about Wentworth is that it is one of Europe 's best inland courses . |
| 5 | You now try to connect these two perceptions , by saying that ( a ) the rhyme scheme causes the cheerfulness ; or ( b ) there is a relationship between the rhyme scheme and the cheerfulness , but it is one of correlation ; or ( c ) the regular rhyme scheme is connected with the cheerfulness because they are both caused by something else ( such as the genre or subject matter of the poem , perhaps ) ; or ( d ) there is in your view no relationship between the rhyme scheme and the feeling , and they coincide without there being a causal or correlative relation between them . |
| 6 | It is one of life 's little ironies that the alteration from what was perfectly clear to what was perfectly ambiguous was effected by a Committee to whom the Bill was referred ‘ because it required the attention of expert legal draftsmen ’ ! |
| 7 | It is one of life 's coincidences . ’ |
| 8 | It is one of Minton 's most delightful books . |
| 9 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 10 | It is one of France 's largest breeds , large in the chest and pelvis and with a well-developed udder , yielding perhaps 4,500kg at about 4 per cent butterfat and capable of growing into a well-fleshed animal for beef . |
| 11 | It is one of independence , diversity and choice , leading to higher standards in an area previously hobbled by centralisation , bureaucracy and mediocrity . |
| 12 | Actually it is one of Prokofiev 's most intimate works , and Hardy and Devos are alive to the wistful reflectiveness of the first movement , while the scherzo and finale have a lovely conversational interplay . |
| 13 | It is one of development : Bolivians need an alternative way to make a living . |
| 14 | It is one of Callinicos ' main concerns to relate the constellation of ideas and cultural practices trading under a conception of the postmodern condition to an inadequate and escapist politics : the claim , as one of his own critics has had it , that ‘ the conditions that sustain oppression can be altered piecemeal ’ ( Patton , cited , p. 85 ) . |
| 15 | It is one of form rather than substance . |
| 16 | The Zahringer Dukes extended the castle from 1127 onward , and it is one of Switzerland 's earliest brick buildings ; the town alongside it on the ridge grew in proportion to its strategic importance and was in fact incorporated in the walled defences by the Kyburg dynasty which followed the Zahringers . |
| 17 | It is one of football 's great mysteries why Clough senior won only two caps , despite being one of the deadliest strikers of the late 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 18 | It is one of Marx 's greatest contributions to philosophy and the social sciences to have pointed out the systematic relationship between knowledge and historical and social processes . |
| 19 | It is one of Zamberlan 's original lightweight and best selling boots . |
| 20 | The kite is the representative image of freedom , of which Scobie commented , ‘ it is one of Cohen 's most successful and most richly complex images ’ ; which Ondaatje highlights as ‘ symbolic of our ego and our ambition , of all that is original and free in us . ’ |
| 21 | It is one of comparison between the northern , highly industrialised countries and the southern , less well developed economies . |
| 22 | If it is one of tantrums then the chart should go where the action usually happens — in living room or kitchen , for example . |
| 23 | It is one of Hewlett-Packard Co 's most successful German resellers and has 100 employees ; 1991 turnover was about $12m . |
| 24 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |