Example sentences of "[noun prp] was one [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 2 | He hated having to trust anyone , but Hitch was one of the few he did . |
| 3 | Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing . |
| 4 | Leonidov was one of the many Soviet architects of the Avant-garde whose designs remained projects on paper , only a staircase , in the Kislodovsk sanatorium , ever being executed . |
| 5 | Darwin was one of the few to speculate that the law of succession of types was best explained in terms of the constraints placed upon evolution by the major geographical barriers defining the continents . |
| 6 | ‘ Rush was one of the few out there who did himself credit . |
| 7 | Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight . |
| 8 | Chemicals group Courtaulds was one of the few to register any positive movement . |
| 9 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 10 | Discredited , politicized and apparently unmanageable , ORTF was one of the many Gaullist and Establishment sacred cows to suffer from the ‘ contestation ’ of May-June 1968 and its aftermath . |
| 11 | Fuchs was one of the few public figures who supported Beeren publicly at the time of the debacle over the restoration of the Barnett Newman painting ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ . |
| 12 | If Hull was one of the low points of the season , then the derby game against Hartlepool was one of the few highlights . |
| 13 | Jess was one of the many who were very pleased to reach the 19th hole . |
| 14 | FRANCIS GOODMAN was one of the many bright talents that flourished in the art of taking fashion and portrait photographs in London in the 1930s . |
| 15 | Boyle was one of the few Tories for whom Crosland had any time . |
| 16 | Yanaihara Tadao was one of the few who courageously advocated home rule for Korea and even , if necessary , independence . |
| 17 | Compact and composed full-back who made a superb debut against New Zealand in August , Theo was one of the few successes against Australia . |
| 18 | His father was a California shaper and Richie was one of the few top ASP surfers who shaped his own boards . |
| 19 | Hitting the headlines again , Connors was one of the many businesses affected in the Bangor and Portadown bombs this year . |
| 20 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 21 | William Hutton was one of the few who worked in both factory and cottage as a child , for he was first employed in a silk mill in Derby before becoming apprenticed to his framework knitter uncle . |
| 22 | While the rest of Romania was in utter chaos , Poiana Brasov was one of the few snowcovered ski-bargains around . |
| 23 | Cotton Lane in dockland Bermondsey was one of the many small cobbled streets which served the wharves , and it differed very little from other riverside throughways . |
| 24 | Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work . |
| 25 | For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved . |
| 26 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 27 | Preston was one of the few male friends William had who did not teach at a university . |
| 28 | The Rev. Charles A. Berry was one of the many Nonconformist ministers to visit America : in 1887 , on his second visit , he had preached at Beecher 's Plymouth Church , a visit organized before the American 's death . |
| 29 | AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously . |
| 30 | Alexander Peden was one of the latter group . |