Example sentences of "i be one of [det] " in BNC.

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1 I am one of many who saw the appointment of Dr Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury as a prophetic choice for England .
2 I AM ONE OF MANY mountaineers who owe a great debt of gratitude to international climber and outdoor gear retailer Graham Tiso .
3 I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it .
4 I suppose I am one of those people with drive , I was always the one who started the groups . ’
5 I am one of those people whose money burns a hole in the pocket whenever anything promising arrives on the market .
6 I am one of those Labour voters who supports the Scotland United initiative .
7 since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work .
8 ‘ Yes , he had a lot of very strong , incredibly positive influences on many artists , and I am one of those artists , although I never exchanged two words with him .
9 I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) .
10 I am one of those who believe that the revenue support grant makes the Schleswig-Holstein question a model of clarity .
11 I am one of those who welcome without any reservation the citizens charter that has been brought forward by the Government .
12 I am one of those in the Labour party — I do not know whether I am in the majority in the parliamentary Labour party — who believe in unilateral disarmament .
13 ‘ Were you hoping to find that I am one of those fools who holds tightly to a title with no meaning ?
14 I am one of those who lends money so the King can hire his knights . ’
15 As a 19 year-old student , I presume I am one of these .
16 Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board .
17 On a much more parochial level and I er I have an interest and I am one of these old age pensions that Mr is determined to look after .
18 ATTENTIVE READERS of this column will know already that I am one of this country 's leading authorities on ‘ celebrology ’ — this is the study of the role of the celebrity in general elections .
19 I 'm one of those people who , if I went into a gym , could be making Schwarzenegger movies .
20 I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds .
21 I 'd like to say I 'm one of those people who waited seven years to have my daughter , who 's now eight by the way , but I mean erm I was one of those people when I heard about IV coming in I thought this was a great thing !
22 I 'm one of those souls in purgatory .
23 Er I 'm one of those people that took a two year er low pay rise , to put me into the Health Service when my husband was ill .
24 ‘ I 'd like to offer to help , but I 'm afraid I 'm one of those people who faint at the sight of blood . ’
25 I 'm one of those old ladies who
26 I I I 'm afraid Harry I 'm one of those that we take our our responsibility and if they do n't like what we 're doing they can
27 The union fights for he says , and the union 's a but I 'm one of these employers who paying them , my men a plus rate , so I 'm paying men sixpence plus over the normal rate so there was no difficulty there .
28 One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year .
29 I m I must confess I 'm one of these simple folk who thought that once we got the nineteen ninety one census figures through then it would it would all start into place .
30 As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’
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