Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [is] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister 's one of those . |
| 2 | Now that it 's eventually started happening , I find that my attitude is one of high indignation . |
| 3 | But , John , put yourself in the customer 's shoes , and my wife 's one of your customers . |
| 4 | It happens that my father is one of the top people in what is known as Work Study . |
| 5 | ‘ My feeling is one of sympathy for him , ’ said Robson in an interview with Radio Five . |
| 6 | M my concern is one of safety . |
| 7 | Simply by doing the paperwork , by analyzing the figures , because my background is one of analysis , and coming to sometimes political decisions and sometimes unpleasant political decisions . |
| 8 | My problem is one of gearing — basically it is too low in all gears . |
| 9 | The short chapter My Mother is one of the most moving . |
| 10 | Their story is one of the saddest , as two species , the Indus River dolphin and the Yangtze River dolphin ( baiji ) , are on the edge of extinction , and their continued survival seems unlikely . |
| 11 | These Dwarfs are capable smiths and keen-minded merchants , and their presence is one of the reasons why Altdorf has become the dominant city in the Empire . |
| 12 | Their presence is one of the most curious aspects of the history of this field . |
| 13 | On the trip there , the Bentley showed us why its cabin is one of the most pleasant and relaxing automotive environments in existence . |
| 14 | For Anna too , the only way out is the one she takes and although her story is one of great tragedy , it was one she chose for herself . |
| 15 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 16 | For some parents , spoiling their child is one of the ways they can express relief at having someone to care for . |
| 17 | It is the aim of this study , in order to maximize this advantage , to focus on one area of financial regulation — the Chinese Wall — where law and economics do interface and where their intersection is one of clear economic dimensions . |
| 18 | But when it actually occurs , whether her reaction is one of numbness and shock , or of anguish more openly expressed through episodes of weeping and talking freely about her feelings , you will need to brace yourself to catch her as she falls into what will seem to her to be the bottomless pit of her sorrow . |
| 19 | If her husband is one of Matilda 's — ’ |
| 20 | A wife has duties and to please her husband is one of them . |
| 21 | Millwall have scored more goals at home than any other team in the first division but away their record is one of the worst … |
| 22 | My daughter 's doing a media degree actually , and she just brought er , one of those things home with her period is one of her fieldwork , as part of her fieldwork is to interview people , is that what your background is ? |
| 23 | The status of the order of any court acting within its competence is one of full validity until , if ever , it is set aside by any other court acting within its competence . |
| 24 | Although Hochland is not an especially large or important province its count is one of the most valiant leaders in the Empire . |
| 25 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 26 | The sight of a tiny warbler frantically feeding a fledgling cuckoo twice its size is one of the most incongruous in nature . |
| 27 | The cuckoo 's ability to produce eggs that bear a striking resemblance to those of its host is one of the bird 's best known adaptations . |
| 28 | Where you college is one of several offering a particular course , and that course is not already the subject of national development work , I would suggest that there are significant advantages to be gained from engaging in consortium development of unit specifications for that course , and I hope that SCOTVEC can provide support to such consortium development . |
| 29 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 30 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |