Example sentences of "is [coord] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this the basic assumption is that a particular change is but one part of a dynamic , continuous process in which the users are engaged . |
| 2 | However , this type 23 order is but one part of a substantial on-going programme of vessels for the Royal Navy . |
| 3 | This sweeping and quite unsubstantiated assertion is but one man 's opinion and has no more weight than another 's , for example , my own which is completely contrary . |
| 4 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 5 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 7 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 8 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 9 | Er our general response is is that the approach for the County Council is is to be commended erm i in terms of I think , interpreting the true spirit of of of government guidance in in plan making , that erm the the the the discussion about figures is but one consideration . |
| 10 | To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition . |
| 11 | This is but one variation on a theme — other legends state that the relevant time is midnight , cock crow , sunrise or noon . |
| 12 | The modern census is but one expression of this movement , as well as the development and vastly increased scope of economic statistics and other methods of social accounting . |
| 13 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 14 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 15 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 16 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 17 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 19 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 20 | Instead , he argues , one must recognize ‘ a long series of endeavours to resolve persistent questions concerning the duties of the individual , the family and the community in provision for the less fortunate ’ , of which the twentieth-century saga of state pensions is but one chapter . |
| 21 | What is of immediate importance is the realisation , often lost sight of when discussing procedure , that adjudication is but one form of decision-making . |
| 22 | The filling of official posts in ‘ quangos ’ — drawing from business , the unions and the civil service — is but one application of the tripartite principle . |
| 23 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 24 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 25 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 26 | The AEC is but one example of a number of fruitful initiatives undertaken by practitioners in and through the medium of counselling , assisting , directing and monitoring . |
| 27 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 28 | The participation of pathologists in the team effort of investigators seeking the cause of an aircraft accident is but one example of the way specialists are brought in to apply their particular knowledge to the overall problem . |
| 29 | This is but one example of what can happen . |
| 30 | The debate about social welfare is but one example of the way even the multi-dimensional negotiation is organized around the general commitment to preserving Japan 's existing social priorities . |