Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this baseline assessment was obtained patients were randomly allocated one of two typed information sheets which contained a simple description of what a hernia is , why surgery was necessary , and what the operation entailed . |
| 2 | If you were only allowed one food for the rest of your life , what would it be ? |
| 3 | Nonetheless as he left her behind with her trunk labelled ‘ D. Spencer , ’ clutching her favourite green hippo — girls were only allowed one cuddly toy in bed — and Peanuts , he felt a deep sense of loss . |
| 4 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 5 | Initially , schools were only to have one microcomputer , so there was an argument for making the microcomputer available to the whole school by placing it in the school library . |
| 6 | It is relevant to note that the RSPB recently reported that some managers of grouse moors were deliberately killing one of Britain 's rarest birds of prey — the Hen Harrier . |
| 7 | The problems were then studied one by one in order of urgency . |
| 8 | MI6 had discovered that the trunk cable from the Imperial Hotel passed along a main road and it acquired a shop from which a tunnel was dug towards the cable duct and the trunk circuits were then tapped one by one . |
| 9 | Patients were prospectively evaluated one month after stenting , by clinical examination , laboratory tests , ultrasonography , and ERCP . |
| 10 | Another item assured us that ‘ Mr Cook was personally conducting one of his Highland Tours ’ . |
| 11 | Acton was obviously articulating one strand of Victorian sexual ideology in process of creation , but not the only one and perhaps not the most important . |
| 12 | At the time , the department was only getting one or two referrals from Chinese people every year . |
| 13 | But even if he was more original than he himself claims , he was only producing one of many variations on a Greek scheme . |
| 14 | In fact , it was only naming one lady on the paper . |
| 15 | I was only hearing one word in five . |
| 16 | and I do n't think you gave evidence that you shouted armed police yourself , so is it right that it was only shouted one time just immediately after the second door opened ? |
| 17 | No matter what reservations Churchill might have entertained about the Atlantic Charter and whether or not freedom was meant to apply to colonial territories , the unworthiness of France to return to Indochina was soon to become one of Roosevelt 's fixed ideas on colonialism and an issue that would bedevil relations between all the Allied powers in Southeast Asia with the possible and ironic exception of the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just watching one of the big interplanetary craft go up . |
| 20 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 21 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 22 | SHE was once considered one of the world 's most beautiful women , but yesterday every line etched on Britt Ekland 's face told a story of personal anguish . |
| 23 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 24 | He was probably visiting one of the forward units at the village perimeter . |
| 25 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
| 26 | However the weekend was just more than a low key steam event at the Centre at Derby Road for the Centre was also providing one half of the motive power , the two passenger coaches , and operating staff at Preston Docks in connection with the Steam Fair staged as part of the 1992 Preston Guild Celebrations . |
| 27 | Not only did the church 's social teaching directly enter into the definition of rights , wrongs , and obligations within this nation state , but it was also to affect one aspect of the structure of government . |
| 28 | It was also to become one of the biggest hits and the one provocative vinyl slap in a chart which reached new depths of blandness : Elaine Page , King , Howard Jones , Foreigner and Russ Abbot . |
| 29 | This ship was the floating HQ of a generally brilliant invasion operation ; it was also carrying one complete , portable occupation government . |
| 30 | He was simply advocating one of the two strands of thought already present in the legal thought and practice of Judaism . |