Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Unconverted barns were one of the success stories of the property boom years , with near-ruins selling for fantastic sums . |
2 | One hundred feet away was one of the assault boats , self-inflated with a figure already aboard . |
3 | This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986–87 . |
4 | This was one of the overspill places for The Marquee , just down the road . |
5 | While just behind it , standing still and staring towards Minch 's cage , the shape that had seemed to loom so large , as if it was one of the standing stones of which Minch had been speaking , became the shape of a man . |
6 | but erm they erm , they had their meals in the canteen which was one of the committee rooms adapted for that purpose and erm , I think erm , the youngs younger people used to quite enjoy it really I mean they used t ha |
7 | I know because I was one of the VSO teachers who introduced it there . |
8 | George 's father , Sir Hector Pittendrigh , was one of the founder directors of the organisation , so exalted , it was said , as to be invisible . |
9 | I was one of the founder members of the old SDP . |
10 | In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section . |
11 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
12 | In fact , Carlos ’ wife , Robyn Clarke , was one of the back-up singers with Ava Cherry and Luther Vandross . |
13 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
14 | However , it was one of the typewriter creatures that had managed to dig its way into the cell . |
15 | Flack was one of the corporation lawyers . |
16 | The village doctor was one of the house guests ; he and Andy 's father hold the boy up , letting water drain from his mouth , then lay him down on a coat on the snow . |
17 | At the same time , in political terms , Costa Rica has been drawn much more closely into the US sphere of influence during the 1980s , moving away from the neutral stance it previously took , so that for a time it was one of the host countries for the US-backed Nicaraguan Contras . |
18 | I had repeated a story told some weeks before by our minister at the chapel , and he was one of the party guests . |
19 | Few there be , are there few that be saved , well what does the bible say about this , first of all it teaches abundantly clearly that all may be saved , God is not partial , God has no favourites , he does n't love you more than he loves any body else , he does n't love me more than he loves you or you more than me , he does n't love you more than he loves ah any other racial group or any other ethnic group , he loves us all the same God so loved the world that he gave his only son Jesus Christ , here in his love , not that we love God says the apostle but that he loved us , the old testament profit reminds us that he has loved us with an ever lasting love , who , this was one of the hang ups that the Jewish nation had , they thought that they were the cats whiskers , he chose them , but he in fact did n't love them any more than he loved the , the hitites , the parasites , the gergasites and all the other ites , he loved them all the same , God is not partial in his love because he is love , if there was any body that God did not love he would actually cease to be God because love is not something that , that God does , you and I do it no matter how loving you are , or how loving you think you are , you are not love , you choose to love somebody and you love them , there are times when that love goes very thin sometimes , perhaps because of events that have happened , it can actually come to an end where that love dies , you withdraw your love God ca n't do that , God loves us as we 've said with an eternal love , a love that will go on throughout the endless ages of eternity |
20 | Shaw was one of the star pupils of Vera Volkova , who taught both the company and school from 1943 to 1950 , before going off to Copenhagen where for 25 years she revolutionised , and Russianised , the style of the Royal Danes . |
21 | Dr. Edward Merrill , President of Gallaudet College , was one of the guest speakers ; the other wad Dr. McMay Vernon , Professor of Psychology and Education of Eastern Maryland College , who delivered this message : Every deaf individual and every family having a deaf member deserves the right to communication … |
22 | Liam Clancy , a fellow Hogarthian , told me that he was one of the Clancy brothers , a group which has found success in New York with its romanticized versions of Irish songs . |
23 | All they could hear was one of the spy planes . |
24 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
25 | I was delighted to be informed that I was one of the prize winners , but my delight turned to disappointment when I realised just what accepting the prize would involve . |
26 | Like many other very wealthy Jews during the early modern period , Carvajal became an army purveyor , and in 1649 was one of the City merchants who were given the corn contract for the parliamentary forces . |
27 | He was knighted on 11 April 1553 and was one of the City fathers signing the letters patent of Edward which made Lady Jane Grey queen . |