Example sentences of "one of the thing [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that .
2 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 .
3 One of the things that we have noted with Frame Relay is that many customers preferred a fixed rate — when you are talking about ATM , I would imagine that some would be interested in flat rate too , but more will be interested in usage based billing ’ , Ms Fitzgerald notes .
4 You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory .
5 So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago .
6 And one of the things that we learn very early in history is the Great Fire of London .
7 Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did .
8 And also because the whole issue of all age worship , was one of the things that we put on the list of what we want to discuss .
9 I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
10 So this , restricting the input , is one of the things that we get on , inverse functions .
11 One of the things that we shall be seeking to do in the negotiations on the political union treaty is to try to ensure that the Commission — at present under no effective control — increasingly comes under the control of the most appropriate Parliament , in this case the European Parliament .
12 But yeah , certainly that 's one of the things that we think , is that our , er it 's our memory of our own historical life events is part of what makes us who we are .
13 That man , okay , singular , who was then each one of us , plural , erm erm , I take it that , that erm one of the things that we could conclude from this entire discussion is that our notion of selfhood erm which is our modern notion of selfhood , deeply bound up with erm personal history , you know , Locke 's erm , what is Locke 's example ?
14 The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period .
15 Erm , the irony of the sort of split responsibility is that er one of the things that we have to obviously bear in mind with any future in erm extension of residents ' parking schemes is the cost , and er it 's interesting that the district council 's off-street er parking account erm for the area is , has got a reasonable surplus , and er well we as an authority 're responsible for , for off-street parking as well .
16 But one of the things that we have discovered over twenty year is the only way you will get people to come into that brochure is to make absolutely certain before you go and see them is
17 The , one of the things that we carried forward to do with influencing , erm memories and attitudes , if you 're thinking about in the positive model , positive way , it 'd say going into an situation , I 've been here before , and I was successful .
18 I think that 's one of the things that we 're we 're all pretty much in agreement on .
19 And I think one of the things that we hopefully might be able to think about , and might be able , not learn , because you know it already , you do n't need to learn it , is how we can increase our contribution to what the depot doing , by perhaps having a really close look at what we 're actually carrying .
20 And one of the things that we do need to look at is , that is almost every salesman that I 've ever measured and almost every bit of research I 've ever seen , suggested that every salesman in the world , spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car .
21 Now one of the things that we have in this city that I do n't think they have as many in Ipswich are students and that must be one of the biggest , they are they party revellers of the century , they have parties all the time .
22 But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage .
23 One of the things that we need to , to work out , and Mark 's gon na do some work on that and , and Maureen pro primarily to identify that erm we 're spending about thirty five , thirty six K a month over at the moment .
24 Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it .
25 We 've also looked at the needs of our local community , our local trade union movement and one of the things that we 're extremely concerned about is health and safety .
26 one of the things that we saw open last week was a hissing gauge which was designed so that even disabled could produce them .
27 I think both in the lay person , as you say , it will be more immediately obvious what a computer 's doing if you have a visual display , but even in the scientific approaches then I think the ability to present graphical information rapidly and change erm the function that you 're looking at is also very important and , for instance in the teaching that we do here , then one of the things that we 're very keen on is using computes to show graphically sort of functions that you meet in mathematics and physics .
28 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 .
29 One of the things that we need to be clear about is that erm computers are not unlike us .
30 Well , this is certainly one of the things that we shall be looking at .
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