Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was one of a young man in her class that I 'd never met but … wait a minute ! ’
2 Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks .
3 During its six years of existence , Minton was one of a wide range of English and French artists who either visited it or , like Léger , lectured there , or who performed as guest teacher-critics .
4 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 .
5 He was one of a small nucleus of highly creative and far-seeing people assembled by Alec Clegg to make an educational vision a practical reality in the primary schools of the West Riding .
6 The floor was carpeted and the impression was one of a small library in a rather run-down country house .
7 At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia .
8 Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today .
9 From 1316 to 1319 Audley was one of a small group of courtiers , including Roger Damory [ q.v. ] and Hugh Despenser junior [ q.v. ] , husbands of the other two Gloucester co-heiresses , who kept a tight grip on Edward II 's patronage and favour ; though he was perhaps the least prominent of the three .
10 Mr Smith was one of a small group of campaigners who visited electrical stores on High Row last weekend .
11 A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road .
12 John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ .
13 Elliot was one of a new type of mining engineer whose expertise extended to many parts of the industry .
14 ‘ Gaultier was one of a new breed of French designers , ’ recalls Tolson .
15 At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords .
16 Dustin was one of a long line of candidates being screen-tested in a ten-minute scene with Katharine Ross .
17 Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable .
18 One of the major figures of the Industrial Revolution , Arkwright was one of a poor Lancashire family of thirteen children .
19 Virginia Woolf was one of a limited number of outspoken feminists of the time whose attitudes to gender provide a contemporary feminist yardstick for the analysis of Walker 's treatment of women , Woolf , like Walker , assumed a dichotomy of human characteristics and qualities according to gender .
20 The ‘ riot ’ was easily dispersed by the local gentry but it was one of a growing number of incidents .
21 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 .
22 He was one of a select group , which included the justiciars Robert de Beaumont , first Earl of Leicester , and Richard de Lucy , and the treasurer Nigel , bishop of Ely [ qq.v. ] , who provided continuity between the old and the new regimes .
23 While the larger estates like Ashburnham or Sheffield controlled almost all aspects of local production and distribution , the pattern elsewhere was one of a widespread use of individuals , contracting as suppliers , carters and labour .
24 Before moving into AIDS research , John was one of a British team working on mouse antibodies that did recognise the enemy — or at least my particular enemy , low-grade follicular lymphoma .
25 The history of the Earth before about 2.5 billion years ago was one of a high rate of heat-loss mainly through vertical tectonic motions .
26 The second study is being set up by the EPA in a Georgia town which was one of a large number that volunteered to be followed while it switched to a pay-to-throw scheme .
27 Robert was one of a large family .
28 She watched as the boy ate ravenously , he was one of a large family and though his father was in regular employment at the copper works , he drank a great deal and kept his wife and children short of even the bare necessities of life .
29 During the Second World War Dall was one of a dozen experts called to Farnborough to examine the wreckage of a V2 rocket that had crashed in Sweden on a test flight .
30 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 .
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