Example sentences of "[pron] be one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people like committees and organising , others do n't , and I am one of the latter . |
| 2 | I am one of the greatest writers of the century . |
| 3 | And now I am one of the unemployed . |
| 4 | I am one of the lucky ones whose interest is in catfish , particularly those of South America . |
| 5 | But I am one of the lucky ones . |
| 6 | I AM one of the thousands of parents who have worn out their shoe leather and their patience in a vain search for the Thunderbirds toys made by Matchbox . |
| 7 | Normally I am one of the happiest people in the team . |
| 8 | My claim to fame nowadays is that I am one of the seven people who did not vote for world peace . |
| 9 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 10 | ‘ Somebody printed that I am one of the richest women in England . |
| 11 | After all , he reflected , I am one of the few people in the world who is n't worth blackmailing . |
| 12 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 13 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm one of the best marksmen in Europe , and you are possibly the biggest grouse in Europe . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm one of the best people |
| 16 | It seems as if nearly all of us have crossed swords with the dreaded vine weevil , and I 'm afraid I 'm one of the many who never quite manage to get rid of them . |
| 17 | Fortunately I 'm one of the strong ones . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd done a lot of training , going to the gym three times a week and now I 'm one of the top boxers for my age and weight . |
| 20 | I 'm one of the original Yuppies , I suppose . |
| 21 | I 'm one of the original directors of the theatre and er Mr Chairman what worries me is this . |
| 22 | After that we became disinterested in each other and I only had three weeks to the deadline , a last-minute decision to make , but I suppose I 'm one of the lucky ones because my parents were behind me all the way . |
| 23 | As for Oxford , I 'm one of the lucky ones in Gav 's splendid purchasing scam via the Fax . |
| 24 | I 'm one of the lucky ones — I can choose where to live . |
| 25 | IF I were one of the millions who good heartedly subscribe on a regular basis to the NSPCC , I would , at the moment , be seriously considering whether my money was in sensible hands . |
| 26 | For another , his is one of the largest sheep farms in the area and one of the few where the ewes are lambed outdoors . |
| 27 | But if the cat can see nothing and feel nothing and yet it still reacts to the loud noise you make , then yours is one of the fortunate , hearing white cats . |
| 28 | However , this issue can be looked at positively : perhaps someone may do something about their abuse as a result of Mr Rose 's coming forward — telling someone is one of the hardest things a victim can do . |
| 29 | As I believe I was one of the earliest users in the country of county wartime incident archives from 1949 onwards , here are some East Anglian pointers . |
| 30 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |