Example sentences of "is [that] one " in BNC.

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1 Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material .
2 A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt .
3 One reason is that one clue for recession-watchers , the build-up of manufactured stocks ( inventories ) , is not much of a guide to a financial recession .
4 A spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Office said last night : ‘ The allegation we have received is that one of the magistrates nodded off and we will be investigating . ’
5 Smith says the message from Soviet data is that one year is the most people can take .
6 Added salt in the wound is that one of the books in the list that follows is taken from the collection which was around Gladstone as he spoke , and that another is one actually given to a library by his trustees .
7 It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not .
8 The other possibility is that one or more of your men stumbled across something important which Fouché would prefer kept secret : something , at a guess , more relevant to internal French politics than Bonaparte 's military adventures , which as you say do n't really concern the police . ’
9 What molecular geneticists — among them Sharp — have now discovered is that one of these families does in fact have some of the hallmarks of a transposon , and moreover has special properties that would tend to promote its expansion in succeeding generations .
10 The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows .
11 The reason I 'm calling is that one of our biggest artists is a band called Van Halen .
12 If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed .
13 ‘ The bad news , ’ went on Luke , tucking a strap into a buckle , ‘ is that one of today 's umpires , Jaime Calavessi , bumped one of the O'Brien boys wrong last week .
14 A white pop star has plundered their culture with the aid of Lennon & McCartney — but what 's worse is that one of dancehall 's finest footsoldiers is a co-conspirator .
15 Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse .
16 Our greatest fear is that one of our children will end up in a body bag .
17 Another puzzle is that one kind of large reptile survived — the crocodiles .
18 ( Much more worrying is that one of the nearby stars — notably Sirius or Procyon — could explode as a supernova , bathing our planet in sufficient hard radiation to extinguish all life .
19 The only positive information is that one PC-5A was registered VT-ATN in 1945 , and remained on the register until 1955 .
20 A STORY doing the rounds at Buck House is that one of Her Majesty 's television sets recently packed up .
21 The emerging consensus is that one serious crime in three ( excluding burglary and car theft ) is reported to the police .
22 Another , equally valid , view is that one of the charms of Scottish winter climbing is the mystery and uncertainty concerning the route 's grade , and the present system should be left unchanged .
23 Shandell admits that he is not sure — what happened , he says , is that one of the company 's distributors developed a facsimile board for Pick for MD-DOS and requested serial-port support .
24 The trouble is that one of the defining characteristics of twentysomethings is their cynicism towards advertising .
25 The essential point , then , is that one person 's ‘ common sense ’ is somebody else 's nonsense , and there are numerous examples of sociological and anthropological investigation questioning and exploding many common-sense notions about behaviour .
26 ( Has anyone recently considered funding higher education properly , or is that one of those outmoded delusions from the seventies , like flares , peace or mushrooms ? )
27 Claudia , the problem is that one Masai , cruel as this may sound , is not considered very important .
28 The unwritten rule of this knowledge/power game is that one set of rather benign standards are applied to texts produced by ‘ ethnic ’ writers ( black , Jewish , Irish etc. ) and other far more critical ones to work produced by those who lack such ‘ authorizations ’ .
29 The effect of one cycle of this algorithm is that one node and its near neighbours are moved closer to the current input .
30 What I do worry about is that one day , somebody 's going to find me out .
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