Example sentences of "one of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the employee 's option may not be the simple one of staying with the transferor or going over to the transferee . |
| 2 | Inevitably , then , their major strategy for meeting demand became the long-term one of building enough new capacity to meet the demand placed on the system at the low price levels which enabled them to increase sales while just balancing the books . |
| 3 | The main problem about this option is the logistic one of getting together the hundreds of different catalogues ( especially those of the small publishers ) necessary to ensure comprehensiveness . |
| 4 | She could see the attraction of eating in here on an evening like this , apart from the one of getting away from her , of course . |
| 5 | The French army had become relatively small and manageable ; it was now comprised of picked men ; its leaders , too , were the best available ; and its task was the specific one of taking the initiative and winning back the areas of land ceded by the terms agreed at Brétigny — and more , if possible . |
| 6 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 7 | The system would bring about a close association between the Council itself and the institutions in which academic strength would be recognized and aspirations for academic freedom met in a way different from the traditional one of creating wholly autonomous chartered institutions . |
| 8 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 9 | If our much smaller , and much more numerous local museums are also to come in from the cold , the only route open to them is the one of providing a stimulating and memorable learning experience . |
| 10 | One is the practical one of providing a separate part for the harpsichordist so that the two instrumentalists would not have to look over her shoulder . |
| 11 | Their primary purpose is the conservative one of helping to sustain and maintain the existing order of things . |
| 12 | The second aim is the theoretical one of using new evidence on this ‘ White Entente ’ ( for such it was ) to confront the plausible claim that ententes have the advantages of alliances without their disadvantages . |
| 13 | Where the comparative blameworthiness or culpability of the parties is taken into account , then the test is an objective one of deviating from the standard of behaviour of the reasonable man . |
| 14 | The first is the historical one of advancing the understanding of South Africa 's political and military relationship with European colonial powers in the critical period following the accession to power of the National party . |
| 15 | A man , passing her , took one startled look and reflected anew what a very unwise policy was the current one of closing nineteenth-century asylums and turning the inmates loose into an alarmed and inadequate society . |
| 16 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 17 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 18 | This link between marriage and kinship , the two abiding pillars of much anthropological theory , was further emphasized in Tylor 's pithy comment that , in the history of human development , the choice facing many tribal peoples was the stark one of marrying out or dying out . |
| 19 | In any study being undertaken , the first thing to be done is the obvious one of finding out what organisations exist and whether they are part of a national body — such as the Women 's Institute , Mothers ' Union , Guides or Scouts — or purely local , such as the Film Club or the Debating Society . |
| 20 | Whatever abstract mathematical objects I may choose to represent energy or momentum , the consequence of actually measuring them is the concrete one of finding that I have present so many units of whatever it is . |
| 21 | The effect of overcrowding was the disastrous one of turning you against all humanity . |
| 22 | The entire process is the fundamental one of turning customer needs into customer wants . |
| 23 | They are introduced for a variety of reasons but often the aim is the laudable one of protecting the public against physical harm or deception . |
| 24 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 25 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 26 | The Labour party 's way of encouraging savings seem to be the ingenious one of putting extra taxes on it . |
| 27 | Many police inquiries brought one or two of those to the fore and mostly their motive was the uncomplicated one of gaining praise and attention . |