Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect . |
| 2 | Health and safety is the one area where shop stewards , safety representatives have to deal with on a daily basis . |
| 3 | This may be one reason why sign language has come to be regarded as a special need in itself rather than being aligned with other home languages , which would exempt deaf children from the legislation of the Education Act 1981 . |
| 4 | This may be one reason why venture capitalists argue that profitable start-up opportunities are rare — perhaps they do exist , but that the theoretically correct investment criteria are not being applied and so they can not be found — although no concrete evidence exists for this link . |
| 5 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 6 | This is one reason why TV buyers may wish to keep part of their budgets flexible beyond the time when they might usually prefer to commit themselves — they may , of course , find that they can not buy the time they want , but this is a risk they may be willing to take in order to get a better price . |
| 7 | That 's one reason why boss Kevin Keegan was prepared to off-load Mick Quinn to Coventry . |
| 8 | Getting both producers and consumers to agree to any new set of quotas is likely to take months , perhaps years , of haggling — one reason why coffee prices fell back within hours after jumping 15% on the news of Brazil 's ban on new exports . |
| 9 | This is one reason why compound feeds are more balanced , because nutritionists can regularly analyse individual ingredients accordingly , by adding a suitable vitamin/mineral premix . |
| 10 | This is one reason why policy makers never seem to take account fully of the people affected by their decisions . |
| 11 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 12 | The fact that drivers — unlike , say , factory workers — have to work independently to some extent , so that their schedules can not be fixed in advance , is one reason why employment law is particularly hard to grapple with in the haulage industry . |
| 13 | This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life . |
| 14 | Perhaps this is one reason why cigarette smoking is so attractive in adolescence . |