Example sentences of "[num] of the [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the problems is that these older men do n't understand their roles and younger men feel let down and betrayed , ’ says Richard . |
| 2 | One of the problems is that there are teachers who do not have a salary fixed by the Ministry of Education and sometimes this salary is made up from fees paid by the parents since the Ministry argues that they do n't receive a sufficient subsidy to pay the teachers . |
| 3 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 4 | One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least . |
| 5 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 6 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |
| 7 | One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases . |
| 8 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 9 | One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated , it is difficult to limit its growth . |
| 10 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 11 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 12 | One of the problems is that you ca n't say one night you may get seven or eight calls . |
| 13 | One of the problems is that the rider , perched up there , is sitting almost directly over the centre of gravity of the thing , and there is little room to manoeuvre . |
| 14 | One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily . |
| 15 | Now one of the problems is that they no longer perhaps group together in self-supportive units . |
| 16 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 17 | One of the problems was that the type of people they recruited to man to staff the switchboard were from outside , they did n't know the force |
| 18 | For my purposes , it suffices if I say that one of the questions was whether an original lessee is liable to pay a rent which has been increased by a variation in the terms of the lease reached between the assignee and the landlord . |
| 19 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 20 | One of the reasons is that people in this country do n't value labour . |
| 21 | One of the reasons is because the Law Society says you 've got to have advocacy skills , and you 'll find in your manual the actual amount or degree of advocacy skills you will eventually have to learn . |
| 22 | And the reason for a , a lot of fashion and a lot of change in the fashions , one of the reasons is because these men had , needed some way of showing off their wealth . |
| 23 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 24 | I think one of the things is that Mrs Thatcher 's not there any more . . |
| 25 | One of the reflections is that we believe circumstances to be " enough " to make their effects happen , which is consistent with their not happening . |
| 26 | One of the difficulties is that every person 's situation is different . |
| 27 | One of the difficulties is that the Angolan understanding of the agreement reached in June was that Mr Savimbi should not remain in Angola while elections are held , though he might return later . |
| 28 | One of the difficulties is that if Sly lacks a talent for comedy , Getty is devoid of charm . |
| 29 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 30 | One of the difficulties is that the end state is so far removed from the average child that it is very difficult for them to see why they have to learn to read , but if they can realize that if they learn to read in those houses where they have it they 'll be able to read the Radio Times and know what the television programmes are , that at least is motivating . |