Example sentences of "[pron] was one [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was one of the few ‘ non-official ’ witnesses at the inquiry into what I trust is the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight . |
| 2 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 3 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 4 | I was one of the few . |
| 5 | Many were shot in the back as they ran , and I was one of the few who reached the trench we had started from unhurt — alive , even . |
| 6 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 7 | But his was one of the many families in the streets that ran off the main road at the bottom of the hill and from whom this shop and the tobacconist 's derived most of their regular custom . |
| 8 | He was pleased , proud that his was one of the few households with milk in winter , and apparently unruffled by the irony of its coming too late , when the calf was already more dead than alive . |
| 9 | Which was one of the many reasons , now he thought about it , why he was planning to kill her . |
| 10 | The group began its " Summer of Mercy " campaign on July 15 by mobilizing mass blockades of Wichita 's abortion clinics , one of which was one of the few in the USA to perform late-term abortions . |
| 11 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |
| 12 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 13 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 14 | She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance . |
| 15 | She was one of the few people in the world who genuinely found Henry funny . |
| 16 | She was one of the few . |
| 17 | ‘ She was one of the few women Charles regarded as an equal , ’ one who witnessed their early meetings recalled . |
| 18 | It was also humbling to know her as she was one of the few colleagues to combine the life of a successful international singer with an equally successful marriage ( to the music teacher Paul Blissett ) . |
| 19 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 20 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |
| 21 | She was one of the few self-made women in Britain . |
| 22 | She was one of the few people in Iran who dared speak her mind to him ( perhaps the sole person ) , but what was on her mind was not to everyone 's liking . |
| 23 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 24 | She was one of the few who possessed it . |
| 25 | Her mother , she thought with a most annoying pride , who was one of the few genuinely creative women scientists around and in whose success , were it anyone except her mother 's , she would be rejoicing . |
| 26 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 27 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | Our aircraft ( with mainplanes detached ) overflowed from the hangar deck onto the quarter deck and it was one of the latter which was rendered u/s during bad weather experienced in the Atlantic . ’ |
| 29 | There was a momentary hesitation while he considered the implications , but it was one of the many challenges he could n't let go . |
| 30 | It was one of the many characteristics they shared . |