Example sentences of "he was one [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of many ministers on the ‘ death rota ’ , as he called it . |
| 2 | He was one of many sailors who , when they disappeared to sea for a year or more , would receive letters from Minton , most of which were torn up or thrown away . |
| 3 | A decade later he was one of several bishops to oppose the controversial regime of Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game . |
| 5 | He was one of several players to make their debut for the province while still at school . |
| 6 | He was one of several men from the Midlands in Palace sides of the early and mid-1920s and had joined us from Coventry City in July 1922 , as part of a complex six-player exchange deal negotiated between the clubs by Palace boss Mr Edmund Goodman . |
| 7 | He was one of several candidates vying to become only the 14th editor in the publication 's 128-year history . |
| 8 | Harry always looked immaculate and unruffled , and he was one of those players upon whom the Manager , his team colleagues and supporters can always rely for a composed and controlled performance . |
| 9 | For him it was a matter of great moment , for he was one of those artists who hold that the energy of artistic creation is itself erotic , indeed ( in his most extreme formulations ) positively genital . |
| 10 | He was one of those men of whom the historian Edward Gibbon , who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , reported their disgusting activities ‘ in the decent obscurity of a learned language . ’ |
| 11 | He was one of those men who , once the bloom had gone ( in his case his hair ) , never seem to age , although a glance at Vacher 's Guide would have revealed him to be sixty-two . |
| 12 | He was one of those guys came to my flat . |