Example sentences of "one of [art] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | As well as how to unpick a faded coat or dress and sew it up again inside out , that was one of the things mrs so and so suggested . |
| 4 | I mean generally they you know , I , that 's one of the things people cut back though is n't it ? |
| 5 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , being a Sunday , the department had been closed , but Switchboard had eventually managed to contact one of the Records staff . |
| 7 | Alternatively , the case can be modelled upon an actual case in one of the Trials Series ( below , p.233 ) . |
| 8 | one of the groups people |
| 9 | The discovery of the body had made front-page news , in spite of the continuing saga of the hijack , and one of the features staff had put together a hasty obituary on an inside page . |