Example sentences of "[was/were] one [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest rate was in Lambeth where 32 per cent of all families were one parent families , followed by Hackney with 31 per cent . |
| 2 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 3 | " I believe it was one Arthur Pascoe , ma'am . |
| 4 | That night there was one Buddeke present , a Pinkerton agent . |
| 5 | The leader of this insurrection was one Simeon bar Kokhba . |
| 6 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 7 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 8 | There was one surprise result as Brent Kidd 's double strike gave Section Two side Ballynahinch a 2-0 win over Newry at Blaris and a quarter-final tie with Garvey this afternoon . |
| 9 | ( The prosecuting barrister was one Peter Taylor , recently appointed Lord Chief Justice , to clean up after Lord Lane . ) |
| 10 | But one for a serious collector , not a decorator ’ , was one London dealer 's verdict . |
| 11 | Also serving his apprenticeship at Kerrs , in the railway wagon design team , was one Reg Mitchell — who in the coming years was to play a vital part in the Battle of Britain with his design of the legendary Supermarine Spitfire . |
| 12 | The spokesman for the organizing committee was one Dr Harrison Rogers , who explained that like the more orthodox Olympic movement , the new games were to be truly international in flavour . |
| 13 | Was one gold star , and then another |
| 14 | in fact there was one boy Les , Les actually lived fifty seven miles from the school he lived er , what was his address ? |
| 15 | Small world then , life 's I mean erm , child seat , there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the , the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back , cos I was running a bit late I was running a bit late anyway . |
| 16 | Well , that was one management style , but it was n't his . |
| 17 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 18 | no there was one girls school which was Christ Hospital |
| 19 | There was one village shop in our immediate neighbourhood where most necessities could be purchased . |
| 20 | I have to say there was one piece information I picked up yesterday asking and we 're talking about the rural areas I think in this discussion , the rural viability , rather then er urban . |
| 21 | There was one policy implication . |
| 22 | That was one reason Mr Walesa called one . |
| 23 | We were told , madam , in England , there was one Miss Flora Macdonald with him . ’ |
| 24 | that they , just the others are all local , so at least there was one Festival visitor proper |
| 25 | The coaching stock was one set German ( DB ) and one set BR Mark I. In the yard we could see their ‘ Kriegslok ’ 2-10-0 on display . |
| 26 | That was one John Coffin , perhaps the better man of the two . |
| 27 | Amongst the first of these was one Erik Hazelhoff , at one time the aide to Queen Wilhelmina and who held a Dutch Knighthood on arrival in PFF . |
| 28 | ‘ He was one George Howard Foster , known in the music halls as the Great Foster . |
| 29 | For eleven men there was one latrine bucket . |
| 30 | These men were real Rats and the leader of the Pack was one Francis Albert Sinatra . |