Example sentences of "to be one [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I discovered the city to be one of many charms ; time and again , I found myself wandering past delightful rows of old timber-fronted houses , or crossing some little stone footbridge over one of the many streams that flow through the city . |
| 2 | But this seems to be one of those cases where thinking can not make it so . |
| 3 | And it 's got to be one of those whites . |
| 4 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 5 | Well why on earth , if you 're s , y'know , you embark on that route why do n't you put something in the budget for the fruits of that exercise and we believe that you can save money by that and that er this is going to be one of those budgets that 's gon na end up er under strength at the end of the day because of that . |
| 6 | I , I , ca n't see it , it seems to be one of those things that has no purpose . |
| 7 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 8 | ( The diagram on the instruction leaflet is not very clear , however , so this is likely to be one of those times when you take quite a while to figure out how the confounded things fit together , and then feel a bit daft when you realise how easy it is . ) |
| 9 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 10 | I was not going to be one of those mothers who cried , and I did n't . ' |
| 11 | ‘ Mass medium ’ thus turns out to be one of those terms , apparently simple , that grow more elusive upon analysis . |
| 12 | This is going to be one of those arguments . |
| 13 | Oh dear , I hope it 's not going to be one of those nights |
| 14 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 15 | I knew this was going to happen it 's going to be one of those days . |
| 16 | and these two men would employ half a dozen other men , you see , and whether w whether it was for to get a foothold in the future for to be one of these contractors or not , I j I just do n't know . |
| 17 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 18 | Three types of abnormal results were recognised and all abnormal results were judged to be one of these types : rapid emptying , slow emptying , or biphasic emptying ( early rapid emptying followed by normal or slow emptying ) . |
| 19 | Private medicine turned out to be one of these issues , and private education another . |
| 20 | Assertiveness always seems to be one of these subjects that really , I do n't why but it seems to get to get people talking about about being aggressive about dismissive about lots of different things and I think assertion perhaps is one thing that we need we need to clarify |