Example sentences of "[noun] was one [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
| 2 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 3 | The talk was one of the many social activities which include visits to Exbury Gardens , Bournemouth and Haslemere Theatre . |
| 4 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 5 | He hated having to trust anyone , but Hitch was one of the few he did . |
| 6 | The founder of Serbian expressionism was one of the few artists who worked and thought alongside the European art movements of the beginning of the century . |
| 7 | The nationalisation of iron and steel-making was one of the few ‘ socialist ’ measures remaining on the party 's agenda . |
| 8 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 9 | Leonidov was one of the many Soviet architects of the Avant-garde whose designs remained projects on paper , only a staircase , in the Kislodovsk sanatorium , ever being executed . |
| 10 | Darwin was one of the few to speculate that the law of succession of types was best explained in terms of the constraints placed upon evolution by the major geographical barriers defining the continents . |
| 11 | Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five . |
| 12 | Chemical knowledge was to be communicated in a straightforward manner , leaving associations and word play to poets and writers of fiction like Goethe , whose Elective Affinities was one of the few novels to exploit chemical imagery with serious rather than comic intent . |
| 13 | ‘ Rush was one of the few out there who did himself credit . |
| 14 | Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight . |
| 15 | Chemicals group Courtaulds was one of the few to register any positive movement . |
| 16 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 17 | The room was one of the few in the house spared by its former owner 's transforming zeal . |
| 18 | Discredited , politicized and apparently unmanageable , ORTF was one of the many Gaullist and Establishment sacred cows to suffer from the ‘ contestation ’ of May-June 1968 and its aftermath . |
| 19 | Neil Back was one of the few stars to emerge from the England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand . |
| 20 | Fuchs was one of the few public figures who supported Beeren publicly at the time of the debacle over the restoration of the Barnett Newman painting ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ . |
| 21 | If Hull was one of the low points of the season , then the derby game against Hartlepool was one of the few highlights . |
| 22 | Nithard was one of the latter sort . |
| 23 | For the very poorest the station was one of the few places where they could encounter the better-off , and attempt some income redistribution by the provision of services like newspaper-selling , boot-blacking , hawking , or simply begging . |
| 24 | Jess was one of the many who were very pleased to reach the 19th hole . |
| 25 | FRANCIS GOODMAN was one of the many bright talents that flourished in the art of taking fashion and portrait photographs in London in the 1930s . |
| 26 | Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life . |
| 27 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 28 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
| 29 | Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch . |
| 30 | Boyle was one of the few Tories for whom Crosland had any time . |