Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were received in one of the general 's famous caravans , and Stirling outlined the contribution his unit could make to the coming battle . |
| 3 | In October 1922 , 326 male vagabonds were received in one fortnight ; 200 of them were ex-soldiers . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was three women , whose lives were contained in one bewitching , unforgettable gesture |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example , if both composing and secretarial abilities were included in one global writing attainment target , a pupil who had achieved level 6 in the composing aspect but only level 3 in the secretarial would have to be recorded as being at level 3 in writing . |
| 9 | Erm , I remember years ago , well , well , say months ago , erm , one of the local estate agents were writing in one of the property news I think it was or the Advertiser , saying now is the time to buy , erm , whereas twelve months ago , now 's the time to buy because they |
| 10 | Yes certainly in the late nineteen eighties , more houses were built in one particular year , depend depending on which part of the country you 're in it happens to be different years . |
| 11 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 12 | The counts were made in one , arbitrary , direction ( corresponding to the long axis of the fragment ) and transitions involving short-wave cones were excluded . |
| 13 | Although there were stores all over the world , manufacturing and distribution were highly centralized ; most of the products were made in one giant plant . |
| 14 | They did this by ‘ producing a set of mathematical models which linked variables ( demand , service levels , unit costs and infrastructure ) in such a way that , as changes were made in one or more of these variables , the estimated consequences for the others , and for financial results could be evaluated ’ ( Department of Transport , 1983 , p.63 ) . |
| 15 | Once 75 people were operated in one day . |
| 16 | Forty-eight were used in one production and of these the Eight Extraordinary Dancers did their own specialities which were naturally very juvenile : the Pony Trot , the Bells and the Xylophone . |
| 17 | Over eight miles of black cloth were sold in one day . |
| 18 | One of the most popular misconceptions about the past is that our ancestors were rooted in one particular place , that they rarely ventured beyond their restricted horizons and that consequently they were limited in their outlook and in their knowledge of life beyond the parish . |
| 19 | CATANIA 'S CULTURE CLASH A complicated system which meant 42 games were played in one day cast a shadow — albeit a small one — over three days of full blooded sevens . |
| 20 | At night they were locked in one of the cells of the former monastery . |
| 21 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 22 | For example , if 500 cells were counted in one section and the number of cells of each intensity was as follows ; 0=20 , 1=150 , 2=230 , 3=100 , the mean count was calculated as follows : ( 0×20 ) + ( 1×150 ) + ( 2×230 ) + ( 3×100 ) =910/500 and the mean intensity in the section was rounded up to ‘ 2 ’ . |
| 23 | The remaining problem was that although all the physical activities of the Branch , except for the field work , were concentrated in one place at Farnborough , our offices were still with the Department of Trade in central London . |
| 24 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 25 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 26 | Its examples were followed in one way or another in the various collections of Christoph Demantius ( 1567–1643 ) , Valentin Haussmann ( d. c. 1612 ) , Erasmus Widmann ( 1572–1634 ) , Hassler 's pupil Melchior Franck ( c. 1580–1639 ) , and others . |
| 27 | For the six M paratuberculosis positive Crohn 's disease cultures , positive amplification signals were observed in one of three or two of three lanes of the polymerase chain reaction triplicates . |
| 28 | with large stacks of metallic drums which were stored in one deeper hollow directly under the window of Froebe 's office . |
| 29 | If we were to fail in one area it would begin to be assumed elsewhere that perhaps the anti-British propaganda of our enemies had some basis to it , and that the Government were no longer willing or able to help their friends . |
| 30 | All the cases were filed in one of the 11 special courts empowered to try politicians and bar them from politics for up to seven years . |