Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The informal discussions prior to the firming-up of our area of study were one of the most beneficial ( although the most time-consuming ) parts of the project . |
| 2 | Coun Griffiths said : ‘ D furnace was one of the 10 best in the world . |
| 3 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
| 4 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 5 | Buick was one of the main victims of GM 's disastrous attempt to automate its way out of trouble . |
| 6 | It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Thursday 's extraordinary election result was one of the finest jokes played on almost everyone in sight for years . |
| 7 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 8 | This unlikely concoction was one of the more important pharmacological advances in the history of medicine , albeit for the wrong reasons . |
| 9 | Lord Ross said that the sheriff had failed to attach proper importance to the fact that an allegation of murder was one of the most serious which could ever be made against any individual . |
| 10 | As a result , although his club was one of the first to develop Smiley culture , much to his relief Danny never became a tabloid Mr Big . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me your club was one of the main places in the operation . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
| 13 | But the crucial thing he had n't told us was that his girlfriend was one of the operators involved in the ring , and he 'd just had a big row with her . |
| 14 | Ian Philpot , whose girlfriend was one of the 51 people who died , says Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson must now call a public enquiry . |
| 15 | Vee was one of the acts who took Holly 's place at a concert on the night he was killed , and a pop manager spotted him and signed him up . |
| 16 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 17 | The Welfare Rights programme was one of the first successes to complement the work on alternative forms of accommodation and one of the most effective means of mobilizing non-social services resources . |
| 18 | His weekly half-hour CBC programme was one of the most popular and kept his Victor recordings high in the rating charts . |
| 19 | An annual further education programme was one of the things which became possible thanks to the availability of full-time professional staff . |
| 20 | J. D. Hooker was one of the first scientists to be informed of Darwin 's new theory back in the 1840s , and he now came out in public support of the Origin of Species . |
| 21 | Johan was one of the patrons at the Bath Festival when we met . |
| 22 | The study was one of the first randomised trials to measure the effectiveness of a non-orthodox therapy . |
| 23 | The Italian ( GlSSI ) study was one of the first where treatment was administered soon after the onset of symptoms to patients suspected of having an acute myocardial infarction . " |
| 24 | The talk was one of the many social activities which include visits to Exbury Gardens , Bournemouth and Haslemere Theatre . |
| 25 | Patterson was one of the last out , but it seemed he 'd got the message about his visitor as he hurried towards his office without a sideways glance . |
| 26 | Critical Practice was one of the early titles in the ‘ New Accents ’ series published by Methuen , under the general editorship of Belsey 's colleague at Cardiff , Terence Hawkes . |
| 27 | The car was one of the new Jaguar XJ 40s . |
| 28 | At the house of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd not far from Magdalene College was one of the remarkable Knox brothers , Wilfred . |
| 29 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 30 | A more severe music critic was one of the cats owned by Frenchman C.C. Pierquin de Gembloux . |