Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She seemed unable to appreciate the fact that Henry himself was one of a threatened species , even though that threat was treated with contempt by most ecologists and nearly all women . |
| 2 | He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two . |
| 3 | It was one of a whole series of measures designed to force the pace of Soviet identification with his regime and Cuba 's integration into the Soviet bloc . |
| 4 | Friedrich Bettelheim was one of the young people who benefited from Greta Burkill 's efforts . |
| 5 | ‘ Ours was one of the one percent of holiday romances that end in marriage ’ |
| 6 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
| 7 | I was one of the black sheep , but I 'm no longer . |
| 8 | Howard Banton , the solicitor 's clerk at the leading Cheltenham law firm of Robinsons was one of the twelve people arrested . |
| 9 | I believe he was one of the many aircraft that General Galland 's flying wing and the German Navy shot down on route through the narrows of the Channel . |
| 10 | Tel 's BMW was one of the new Series 3 two-door jobs . |
| 11 | His book , The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction , ( published 1936 in German : Das Kunstwerk in Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit ) was one of the first works to use deconstruction as a method of analysis and has been highly influential on today 's generation of artists who incorporate texts into their art ( for example , Joseph Kosuth ) . |
| 12 | It was one of the first cavalry battles in England 's long and bitter Civil War . |
| 13 | Born in 1903 , the son of a painter and brother of an actor , he was one of the first staff of the Courtauld Institute when it was founded in 1933 . |
| 14 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 15 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 16 | She used drab greys and browns in tiny Fair Isle patterns and was one of the first people I knew to use drop shoulders . |
| 17 | Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary . |
| 18 | He went on to explain that Blufton was one of the first people to start seeing how much money could be made in the independent TV sector — the little companies that mushroomed all over Soho . |
| 19 | But I was er here I was one of the first People have forgotten that there was such a thing as a fitting shop in you know , in . |
| 20 | When will the Prime Minister apologise to the British people for the disgraceful inequities and sheer misery caused all over the country by the poll tax , which he was one of the first people to promote ? |
| 21 | Graham Marsden was one of the first people to observe the behaviour and called their movements patrol routes . |
| 22 | PC Keith Richards , who was one of the first people on the scene , was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation . |
| 23 | Muddy was one of the nicest people I 've ever met and yet you would n't guess that he would be such a sweet guy . |
| 24 | ‘ She was one of the nicest people I ever met , ’ said a theatrical acquaintance who knew nothing of her terrorist background . |
| 25 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 26 | Mason 's was one of the largest machine-works in North Sydney and it had a large labour force . |
| 27 | This was one of the largest sales to date in the government 's sweeping privatization programme , and Bancomer was the eighth bank to be auctioned in 1991 ; all had sold for two or three times their book value . |
| 28 | ‘ I was one of the richest people in the country , and I had to go to the bank to borrow money to buy my house , ’ recalls Koch . |
| 29 | Two years later his 256 at Old Trafford was one of the longest innings ever mounted against Australia . |
| 30 | The boy was about Oliver 's age , but was one of the strangest-looking people he had ever seen . |