Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 2 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 3 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 4 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been one side of the camera for long enough , ’ he smiles . |
| 6 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 7 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 8 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 9 | Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years . |
| 10 | They are devout members of the hierarchical Catholic Church , which has been one of the main influences on their lives . |
| 11 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 12 | of having sort of help set something off and then tiptoe away which has been one of my functions , that , that , that it can happen |
| 13 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 14 | The innate vivacity which had been one of her main attractions , seemed to have deserted her . |
| 15 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 16 | The process , which had been one of the original aims of Schuman and Monnet , was to culminate in a formal treaty of friendship in 1963 . |
| 17 | Government involvement in the planning of the use of national resources , which had been one of the necessities of wartime , was continued by the Labour government as a matter of principle . |
| 18 | Well-meaning and pious , he was of mediocre intelligence and inherited the timidity which had been one of Louis XV 's greatest weaknesses . |
| 19 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 20 | Her Royal Highness sat at a round table with the Duke and Duchess of Westminster , Viscount and Viscountess Astor , Mr and Mrs Ian Bruce he is the Director General of the RNIB ; $insert names$ and his sister Lady Aird who has been one of Princess Margaret 's ladies-in-waiting for thirty years , and was in attendance this evening . |
| 21 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 22 | Professor Barrie Wilson , Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University , who has been one of those most closely involved with implementing recent management changes , says staff are still mainly concerned with teaching well and doing lots of research . |
| 23 | Or how about Sir George Gardiner , the Thatcherite MP who has been one of the Major Government 's most persistent critics ? |
| 24 | She has been one of my favourite ‘ golden-oldies ’ ever since . |
| 25 | She has been one of the liveliest , most controversial and forthright MPs at Westminster during her ten years in the House . |
| 26 | She 'd been one of the few sober people at Dave 's , in spite of the home-brewed beer . |
| 27 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 28 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 29 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 30 | In fact you 've been one long disappointment , old bean . ’ |