Example sentences of "[conj] [is] one [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’
2 Where the draftsman can anticipate this problem arising ( eg where the lease in question is a sublease or is one of a parade of indentical shops ) he should consider enlarging the powers of the arbitrator .
3 And in fact that is one of the affecting things : the story that we read is undoubtedly a love-story .
4 As for Unix , that is a time-tested , used and abused system that is one of the most stable of the platforms currently available ’ he says .
5 As old age creeps on I occasionally reflect , in that pious way that is one of the perks of advancing years , about those things in my education which proved to be of most use in later life .
6 Specify a user that is one of your descendants .
7 Specify a user that is one of your relations .
8 For an industry that is one of the biggest single employers in this country though , times have been hard during 1991/92 and businesses country-wide have found it increasingly difficult to continue the level of graduate recruitment .
9 Er thank you Chairman erm th that is one of the Liberal resolutions that we can get it is important at the sorry to give evidence of the alternative viewpoint and , and that is the case in , in opposing er for those who are opposing that er terminal five .
10 I find it amazing that reader Mrs J. took the time and effort to castigate another community Norris Green for fighting to keep an asset in an area that is one of the most socially and economically deprived in this city .
11 INTERESTS AND ABILITIES : Leonard is particularly interested in sailing and is one of the best skippers in the unit .
12 He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ .
13 Yet more astonishingly we learn that the word of God is made flesh and is one of us and that God himself is tortured to death and that through our suffering and death we can share in God 's suffering and thereby , in some utterly incomprehensible way , in his life .
14 The 200 is a five-door hatchback and is one of the new breed of Escort-class cars to offer almost as much room inside as a Sierra .
15 He qualified for his colliery manager 's certificate in 1947 and is one of the longest-serving members of the Institute of Mining Engineers .
16 Soft solder is of course an aid to artefact manufacture as opposed to a raw material for overall construction , and is one of a whole range of alloys with more specialised applications in metalwork .
17 Pontnewydd Cave ( fig. 7.11 ) is situated near Rhyl in North Wales and is one of only two British sites having hominid remains of the Middle Pleistocene period .
18 The occasion was the bi-annual Fancy Food Show , which attracts more than 30,000 visitors and is one of the principal routes into the US consumer market .
19 But raised blood pressure is an early warning sign and is one of the simplest and cheapest checks that can be done .
20 Daisy Miller won her fifth race in a row here and is one of a quartet with five successes — the others are Claxton Greene , Confused Express and Rubie 's Choice — chasing Carl 's Choice , who moved on to eight in the West Kent Open and must be favourite to win The Daily Telegraph Trophy .
21 ‘ It has caused the abandonment of high standards and is one of the prime causes of stress among teachers and conscientious pupils . ’
22 TRIPOS , the first commercial molecular modelling software supplier , has realised over twelve years of steady growth since 1979 and is one of the leading providers of molecular design and analysis tools and services .
23 This was done with a Dunlop 31 ball and is one of the longest recorded clear carries known in golf ’ .
24 Tayloes , or Belvedere Mill , in Chalford stands on one of the oldest confirmed mill sites in the Chalford Valley and is one of the most picturesque .
25 One particularly notable example of the latter stands part way along the Nailsworth Valley , a few miles from Stroud and is one of the most impressive monuments to the Stroud woollen industry to survive ; the massive range of buildings called Dunkirk Mills .
26 Reading was and is one of his absorbing pleasures and on the bookshelves in the winter of 1971 and 1972 were : The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , Shakespeare , Jules Feiffer 's Harry the Rat with Women , The Primal Scream , a selection of Hermann Hesse , Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and The Group Sex Tapes .
27 Entering the monastery , the ticket office is on the left and is one of the few places in Prague where good guide books can be bought .
28 It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe .
29 The technique outlined below is known as progressive muscular relaxation and is one of the easiest to master .
30 The Palm House in the Royal Botanic Gardens was built 1844–8 , and is one of the most startling pieces of Victorian architectural audacity , qualifying for a place in this book by virtue of its function and its pioneering construction .
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