Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Alderson was one of a number of excellent goalkeepers to have served Crystal Palace FC , and is the only one to have gained full England International honours while with our club . |
| 2 | Flack was one of the corporation lawyers . |
| 3 | Madame Melasse was one of the handful of Europeans who remained . |
| 4 | Mr Rose-Smith was one of a party of three men , all from Ayrshire , making their way down the mountain when he slipped on ice . |
| 5 | His father David Ross was one of a number of Scotsmen who went to Dieppe to seek a living . |
| 6 | Dominic Sass from Ludlow was one of the country 's most promising young poets . |
| 7 | The message from gays and lesbians living in rural Ireland was one of a sense of isolation which might aptly be tackled through the medium of film , which has the potential to act as a focus for the many people geographically isolated and thus tongue-tied by virtue of their isolation . |
| 8 | In July 1940 , following France 's military defeat and occupation by the German army , Tixier-Vignancour was one of the majority of deputies who abolished the Third Republic and voted plenary powers to Marshal Petain . |
| 9 | Emeritus Professor Patrick Vincent ( Paddy ) McGrath was one of the University 's longest serving members . |
| 10 | Candarli Halil Pasa was one of a family of statesmen , four members of which had held the office of Grand Vezir for much of the century preceding the accession of Mehmed II ; and these men had also held , prior to their appointments as vezir , the offices of kadi and kazasker . |
| 11 | At Canniesburn Hospital , where he spent the major part of his working life , his close friend and colleague , Professor W Henry Reid , said that Prof Gibson was one of the city 's finest sons . |
| 12 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 13 | Emeritus Professor Roger Wilson was one of a number of Quakers who strongly influenced the development of the School of Education . |
| 14 | Bruce Bogtrotter was three-quarters of the way through and still going strong . |
| 15 | Founded in 1878 , the CBS was one of a network of societies which in those days provided not only private financial insurance against adversity but social fellowship in regional lodges , where members referred to themselves as " brothers " . |
| 16 | Yet ten years ago China was one of the world 's most straitlaced societies , with neighbourhood networks of morality police who made premarital sex difficult to get away with and unmarried cohabitation impossible . |
| 17 | Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East . |
| 18 | Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter . |
| 19 | Occasionally , when Karajan has conducted an Offenbach overture with unusual verve and power , one is reminded that Bismarck was one of the Frenchman 's greatest admirers ; but inasmuch as Karajan 's own personality seeps into his conducting of comic music , it is a certain mordancy of spirit that shines through . |
| 20 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 21 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his brief spell at the Prenton Park club . |
| 22 | Agoos was 22 at the time and even scored a hat-trick for the youth team during his spell at Prenton . |
| 23 | In smaller markets , the number shipped in Sweden was 82,910 in the quarter , up 41.8% , but in Spain , where the dead hand of the European Monetary System is wreaking havoc , ships rose only 9.7% to 143,380 . |
| 24 | Despite the failure of the bill to give effect to the committee , Garway was one of the government 's critics who were included in the royal commission on public accounts appointed during the following prorogation . |
| 25 | His public interests were religion , politics and law ’ ; leading to ‘ In 1640 , on Thursday December the 28th , this Alexander Brodie was one of a party which included my ancestor , the Laird of Innes , that came to the grand old cathedral of Elgin and destroyed every object in it . ’ |
| 26 | Johnson was one of the handful in the debate who spoke positively about lesbian and gay relationships . |
| 27 | Queen Mary was one of the firm 's patrons and Goode 's undertook to co-ordinate and in many cases donate glass and china throughout the house . |
| 28 | In the mid-'80s , Chris Curry was one of a group of entrepreneurs busy creating the Silicon Fen in Cambridge . |
| 29 | Britain was one of a number of European countries to take part in the annual sea dumping , which included the disposal of radioactive materials used in hospitals and research laboratories as well as waste from nuclear power . |
| 30 | Released after Simon 's great victory at Lewes ( 14 May ) , Peter was one of the council of nine imposed on the king ( June 1264 ) and thenceforth played a major part in the direction of central government . |