Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Stafford was one of just three Party workers mustered to persuade the market day masses ; that they were standing next to a van marked ‘ Richmond Fudge Co ’ was entirely coincidental . |
| 2 | Their demeanour was one of fastidiously ruffled pudeur . |
| 3 | Anthea 's tone was one of politely concealed impatience . |
| 4 | At Grunwick , elbows and boots were used , especially when snatch squads entered the crowd to make arrests , but ‘ the general pattern of picketing was one of relatively non-violent pushing and shoving ’ ( ibid.:86 ) . |
| 5 | During the year to March 31 , Manweb was one of only two electricity distributors to show a sales growth . |
| 6 | Historic Carmarthen holds a special place in Welsh history and in Roman times was one of only two fortress towns in the Principality . |
| 7 | Well erm I 've got to say this , that er as a shop steward , the record that I inherited er was one of very little confrontation between the employer and the union as far as union officials are concerned . |
| 8 | Brief as his role was to be in the battle , it was one of quite exceptional importance . |
| 9 | WHEN I told a colleague that an artist wanted to paint my portrait , his reaction was one of thinly veiled envy . |