Example sentences of "that one of the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In theft terms it is difficult to see that one of the rights of the customer has been adversely interfered with .
2 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
3 ‘ failed to comply with the conditions subject to which it was granted ’ Means that one of the conditions of the provisional licence has not been complied with , i.e. failing to display ‘ L ’ plates in this case
4 You should then find that one of the buds near the break point becomes dominant over the others and can be trained to take the place of the original leader .
5 Could I remind the Prime Minister that one of the consequences of his Maastricht agreement is to prevent Northern Ireland from participating in the new cohesion fund , to the extent of losing tens of millions of pounds ?
6 Aquino , who had initially opposed any retention of US bases within her country , characterized the new treaty as " a straightforward , pragmatic investment in our economic future " , and warned senators that one of the consequences of rejecting the treaty would be " the derailment of plans for the modernization of the armed forces " .
7 It seems clear that one of the effects of this is that more people are fearful both for their own future and for that of the person who has died .
8 It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context .
9 If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample .
10 Price Waterhouse , the government 's adviser on the sale , has admitted that one of the reasons for the secrecy surrounding the sale was to ensure the highest possible price for BTG .
11 It could be argued that one of the reasons for the social division in the area might be the fact that those in charge of the paraphernalia of research did in a sense predefine conflict in this way .
12 Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel .
13 Judy Rumbold suggested in the Guardian that one of the reasons for the maleness of your work was that you both had domineering mothers .
14 It has already been pointed out that one of the reasons for setting an advertising strategy is to assess the effectiveness of the advertisement .
15 It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge .
16 Does not the Prime Minister appreciate that one of the reasons for the very low morale in the Civil Service is that she has appointed so many confirmed Thatcherites to some of the best jobs ?
17 In section 4.1.1 we saw that one of the reasons for building society success was their ability to attract deposits , comparatively cheaply .
18 The hypothesis that we begin to explore in this paper is the hypothesis that one of the reasons for non-convergence of real-life markets to the competitive equilibrium is that the agents in those markets are unable to solve the complex decision-problem facing them perfectly ; their sub-optimal behaviour leads to sub-optimal outcomes .
19 They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply .
20 Does he accept that one of the reasons for the United Kingdom 's continued possession of a strategic deterrent was the fact that it would provide another centre of power , and thus create disequilibrium in the mind of a potential foe ?
21 We should , however , recollect that one of the reasons for the strength of the City of London is that it has consistently followed a very open policy , which is not always followed on the continent and elsewhere .
22 Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons for the unemployment that exists in that part of Islington is the way in which the political friends of the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) run Islington council ?
23 It is suggested that one of the reasons for this may be a cyclical process , whereby some research supervisors set their students problems in areas where they themselves undertook their own Ph D research .
24 But the truth was that the popes employed armies of mercenaries or paid troops and that one of the reasons for raising money was to pay armies .
25 But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police .
26 No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected .
27 I know from experience that one of the frustrations of being head of the Children 's Book Foundation is that however bright and brilliant Julia Eccleshare 's Children 's Books of the Year is , no one seems to buy it .
28 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
29 He jokes that one of the problems of backstroke is that he ca n't see where he 's going .
30 It has been suggested by McCullough ( 1981 ) that one of the problems in viewing old age constructively lies in the model of development customarily used by those who write about the life cycle .
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