Example sentences of "it [was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |
| 2 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 3 | They went into politics because it was one of the things that a certain type of person in a certain station did . |
| 4 | ‘ It was one of the things I hated most . |
| 5 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 6 | Tool using was considered an indicator of intelligence , and it was one of the things that separated Homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom . |
| 7 | And must have been I think it was one of the things that that helped to lead to a more settled period . |
| 8 | It was one of the things that had disappeared from Renascia towards the end and it gave Fenella an odd , rather out-of-balance feeling to see dawn light again . |
| 9 | They all had miseries , it was one of the things in their family . |
| 10 | It was one of the things I liked about you . ’ |
| 11 | It was one of the things that brought it about but they they could bury her there , but only the Anglican |
| 12 | She never did ; she was always in control , it was one of the things she prided herself on . |
| 13 | It was one of the successes of the day : there were fourteen editions in thirteen years . |
| 14 | She noted that it was one of the horses who had pulled them up . |
| 15 | As we shall see , it was one of the factors which led to the US nuclear industry 's virtual demise . |
| 16 | It was one of the factors which transformed shameful debt into indispensable credit . |
| 17 | How far this influenced some members of the government it is difficult to say but I have no doubt it was one of the factors which led to a majority being against abolition . |
| 18 | Now this is one of those interesting incidents because it was one of the times when he tells the disciples off . |
| 19 | For it was one of the laws you couldna break , that at a love-carriage everybody must have his bellyful . ’ |
| 20 | She was no w no no question , she ha it was one of the laws of your firm . |
| 21 | the questions , it was one of the jokes ! |
| 22 | It was one of the conditions the Colonel laid down if he was to remain in hospital . ’ |
| 23 | I think it was one of the signalmen or |
| 24 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
| 25 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 26 | It was one of the reasons that earlier discussions with Thames Television fell through — though Blackeyes was always designed as a movie or a BBC series . |
| 27 | ‘ It was one of the reasons the middle class in Scotland felt the Union worked for them , ’ says Lindsay Paterson , of Edinburgh University 's Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland . |
| 28 | It was one of the reasons why my wife and I first became estranged . |
| 29 | It was one of the reasons why I was anxious to learn English at school : so that I could tell her in her own language how grateful I would always be . ’ |
| 30 | She was accustomed to the barriers to understanding between the sexes , but it never ceased to annoy her : it was one of the reasons she had had to expel her mother 's lover . |