Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 2 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 3 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 4 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 5 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 6 | ‘ There was one about the States and Mexico . |
| 7 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 8 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 9 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 10 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 11 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 12 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 13 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |
| 14 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 15 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 16 | That was one for the book . |
| 17 | This was one for the book . |
| 18 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 19 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 20 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
| 21 | She had made her point — that Suzi was one on a long , long list , and that Gesner was her parents ' generation . |
| 22 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 23 | There was one on the persecution of the Church , another on the post-war internment camps for dissidents , another on the collectivisation of the villages , still another on the show trials of the early 1950s . |
| 24 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 25 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 26 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 27 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 28 | Always I had found magic in small islands , and here was one with a full-rigged galleon of a cathedral as if moored alongside . |
| 29 | There was one with a stretcher and Red Cross nurses were represented . |
| 30 | There was one with a monkey in too , crammed in this little shell with the side cut away so you could see in . |