Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A land lease was another kind of commercial favour which recurs , and this too could form a useful and persuasive means of keeping a voter 's loyalty , as in the attempt to augment the Argyll interest in the burgh of Stirling in 1756 by giving a tack of land in Argyllshire to Robert Campbell , a brother of the laird of Barcaldine , who was one of the merchants of the town . |
| 2 | There was er the who was called after a Frenchman who invented some type of lenses and er the MacKenzie who was one of the engineers did the building of Skerrymor one of the surveyors or something . |
| 3 | Environmental engineer Andrew Olleveant , who was one of the members of the first group , had a number of key issues to cover during his trip to Russia . |
| 4 | , Mary ( 1707–1778 ) , poet , was born in Oxford 8 March 1707 , the second of four children of Oliver Jones , cooper of St Aldates , Oxford , and his second wife , who was one of the daughters , probably Mary ( born 1670 ) , of Thomas Penn , a yeoman of South Newington near Banbury . |
| 5 | Francis Maginn , who was one of the speakers on the second evening , which was devoted to the subject " The Deaf in Society , was impressed by the organisation of the Congress and by the quality of some of the delegations . |
| 6 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |
| 7 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 8 | The former English Amateur Champion , who was one of the heroes in the winning Walker Cup team at Peachtree , missed the cut in his professional debut in the German Masters and won just 1395 in the Swiss Open at Crans-sur-Sierre , but , at Walton Heath , he finished in a tie for sixth place alongside Scotland 's Ross Drummond to win £11,375 . |