Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time of the 1841 census the three sections of Fisher Row were inhabited by one large kin-group . |
| 2 | Share salesmen who were sacked from one firm were sometimes made welcome at another sometimes not . |
| 3 | They threw a party in his honour in the old Hut by the Strathmore Arms , where the revels were halted for one minute 's silence in memory of George 's brother , Guardsman Sidney Fawcett . |
| 4 | While there Mozart attempted to arrange a concert , though his plans were delayed by one week . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 6 | Although Betsy and her two younger sisters were reared in one of the better-off families of Saltcoats , she had a love of the sea and ships and from the age of 15 had gone on trips on Clytus as often as her parents allowed . |
| 7 | Two Beaufighters were vectored onto one ‘ snooper ’ 70 kilometres southwest of the island , an aircraft of 2(F)/123 . |
| 8 | Every member of a household down to the youngest child will be eligible for perks , whereas for British Telecom and British Gas they were limited to one set per metered outlet . |
| 9 | The locks were built in 2 staircases of 5 , and were regarded as one of the great engineering achievements of the age . |
| 10 | Several methods of pedestrian flow and journey data collection were considered and 10 pre-Christmas shopping days of automated photographic data were gathered for one street in Nottingham city centre in a pilot study to test collection and interpretation procedures . |
| 11 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 12 | In October 1922 , 326 male vagabonds were received in one fortnight ; 200 of them were ex-soldiers . |
| 13 | Sixty one patients ( 27 men and 34 women ) ( mean age : 41.8 years ; range : 17–74 years ) with irritable bowel syndrome were treated for one week with one of the following drugs : |
| 14 | Again the four families were heard individually , but were treated as one case . |
| 15 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 16 | Before the first insemination all women were examined by one doctor . |
| 17 | All sections were examined by one observer ( RN ) who had no knowledge of the clinical features or the histological diagnosis ( magnification ×1000 ) . |
| 18 | In February 1918 they , with the Berks Yeomanry , were formed into one Machine Gun Battalion . |
| 19 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 20 | Table VI compares the occupations of fathers of cases and controls who were assigned to one of seven occupational groups where potentially hazardous exposures might have occurred . |
| 21 | Subjects were assigned to one of four different conditions with three subjects from each annual mileage group assigned to each condition . |
| 22 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 23 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 24 | Her London home was used as a hostel by the Scottish rank and file who needed a bed in the capital as they were posted from one place to another , and all were made welcome . |
| 25 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
| 26 | Thus the various hospital plans , the community care plans , the comprehensive school reorganisations , the positive discrimination policies , the community development projects , the urban aid programmes , etc. , were intended in one way or another to reduce inequalities primarily of access to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 27 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 28 | She was three women , whose lives were contained in one bewitching , unforgettable gesture |
| 29 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 30 | Plastic knitting needles were scrounged and a series of holes slightly smaller than the needles were drilled in one end of an 8″ length of 4″ diameter pipe . |