Example sentences of "[adj] was one [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was one of the many reasons why he was such an immensely likeable man . |
| 2 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 3 | He said that this was one of the few buildings to have been built as Government Offices , but was still built ‘ in accordance with the principle of a private residence ’ . |
| 4 | This was one of the few houses to escape destruction in the Great Fire . |
| 5 | This was one of the few occasions when Joan was unable to accompany her half-sister . |
| 6 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |
| 7 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
| 8 | In my opinion this was one of the few good things to come out of our membership of the Common Market . |
| 9 | The political activity around Clause 28 was one of the few occasions when lesbians and gay men have worked together and successfully expressed their anger . |
| 10 | Baynton managed Catherine 's retinue after her arrest and in 1543 was one of the few witnesses to the king 's sixth marriage . |
| 11 | That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library . |
| 12 | I was lucky to have chosen to work in theoretical physics because that was one of the few areas in which my condition would not be a serious handicap . |