Example sentences of "[det] [is] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 2 | This is one of the great roles for a black actor ( not that black actors in these days are not eligible to play practically any character in Shakespeare , with the exception of Desdemona ! ) . |
| 3 | This is one of the special characteristics of catholicism , and is found to a much lesser extent in non-episcopal traditions . |
| 4 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 5 | This is one of the most dangerous faults and requires extra training to combat it . |
| 6 | This is one of two ways to place your opponent at a disadvantage without him even knowing about it . |
| 7 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 8 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 9 | This is one of the reasons why Chomsky ( 1959 ) was able to launch such a devastating attack on radical behaviourism . |
| 10 | This is one of a series of free factsheets produced by Age Concern England . |
| 11 | This is one of BR 's regular steam hauled Sunday dining trains . |
| 12 | This is one of those English expressions so weathered that their emotional batteries are irretrievably flat but , from the lips of someone who spoke English with the cool precision of a fluent foreigner , the phrase was terribly affecting . |
| 13 | This is one of many gems to be found in Janacek 's Uncollected Essays on Music . |
| 14 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 15 | With that in mind when you approach them , stress that this is one of your first gigs and you are going to get all your family and friends along to support you . |
| 16 | Of the few central beliefs uniting the various post-structuralisms ( and connecting them with post/modernism ) this is one of the most important : human identity is to be seen as constituted as well as constitutive ; constituted ( not determined ) by , for example , the pre-existing structures of language and ideology , and by the material conditions of human existence . |
| 17 | This is one of the several moves whereby , for Fanon , ‘ a native contest initially enunciated in the invader 's language , culminates in a rejection of imperialism 's signifying system ’ . |
| 18 | He should make it known within the company that this is one of his priorities , that the whole board supports it and that a percentage of the profits should be devoted to it . |
| 19 | If it is thought that this is one of the pleasanter , more protective aspects of male chauvinism , this is mistaken . |
| 20 | ‘ This is one of the cutest outfits I 've ever worn — I look like some kind of exotic jockey ’ Pepsi , above |
| 21 | I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years . |
| 22 | This is one of the few places to take shelter from the streets that was safe to go . |
| 23 | ‘ Rising from the dramatic landscape like the prow of a great ship , this is one of the most intriguing of all Britain 's known burial mounds . |
| 24 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 25 | This is one of the main problems of providing bereavement support . |
| 26 | But this is one of the experiences that taught me very early in my career that I must do the opposite . |
| 27 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 28 | ‘ This is one of the nursery bedrooms . |
| 29 | Physically at least , this is one of the cleanest campaigns for many a year . |
| 30 | This is one of the most irresponsible strikes I have ever seen . ’ |