Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] things " in BNC.
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1 | One of the things you will notice when watching the television is that close-ups are used very effectively , and so it is of vital importance that the actor has absolute control over his/her face and expression . |
2 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
3 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
4 | That 's one of the things I 've done , actually . ’ |
5 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
6 | One of the things they seem to have agreed about , among innumerable disagreements , was the irrelevance of Virgil to their concerns . |
7 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
8 | ‘ One of the things that has been most useful has been our non-pupil days . |
9 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
10 | On the screen a woman nonchalantly opens the lid of a washing machine and out leaps one of the Things . |
11 | On the penultimate page of Black Skin , White Masks Fanon declares that one of the things that he , the man of colour , wants is ‘ that it be possible for me to discover and to love man , wherever he may be ’ . |
12 | One of the things I worry about considerably is that I feel a lot of well-meaning people bring pressure to bear on companies not to take decisions . |
13 | One of the things museums are going to have to do in future is take over their buildings . |
14 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
15 | She also had a rich enjoyment of the comedy of human character , which was one of the things she shared with Lewis . |
16 | But in the background you can hear the murmur of other people 's activity and this , Smith argues , is one of the things which makes Shared Ark work . |
17 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
18 | One of the things I feel about Throwing Muses music is that it 's visceral , sexual , but not sexy . |
19 | The tension increased on the road because David and DeFries had a very important relationship that was crumbling and one of the things about the relationship was the direction that DeFries did supply for him . |
20 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
21 | She never had been when he was ill ; that was one of the things he disliked about her — unwomanly , he called it . |
22 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
23 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
24 | One of the things we were involved in remains in my memory with shocking force . |
25 | This is only one of the things that can happen to the electrons , but it is the one which is of interest in the production of TL . |
26 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
27 | During one committee meeting , the minister said : ‘ We are footing the bill , and one of the things we are footing the bill for is conservation advice . ’ |
28 | They went into politics because it was one of the things that a certain type of person in a certain station did . |
29 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
30 | ‘ That was one of the things , ’ he says . |