Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 2 | Werner Bischof was one of the great photographic witnesses of his time . |
| 3 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 4 | Jack Alderson was one of a number of excellent goalkeepers to have served Crystal Palace FC , and is the only one to have gained full England International honours while with our club . |
| 5 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 6 | It was a journalist , but Toby Greenslade was one of the rare ones who could write entertainingly about golf , and was a companionable and amusing fellow as well . |
| 7 | Flack was one of the corporation lawyers . |
| 8 | Lancia still ended the first day in the lead , but Alessandro Fiorio 's Integrale was one of the old-style standard versions that have dominated the world championship for the past two years . |
| 9 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 10 | The daughter of ATLAS the Titan , Maia was one of the beautiful Pleiades who appear now as stars in the northern hemisphere . |
| 11 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 12 | A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders . |
| 13 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 14 | At 1.75 billion lire ( $1.2m ) , Mr van Basten was one of the best bargains in football history . |
| 15 | Nelson Mandela was one of the guests of honour , and took the opportunity of meeting Shevardnadze as well as US Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 16 | Born in South Shields , Scott was one of the 12 months a year men who played League football and County cricket . |
| 17 | I think Macclesfield was one of the first er |
| 18 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 19 | Mr Wright was one of the first to give evidence at the inquests into the deaths of three students : Mayuree Taraket ; Ketkanok Chuenjai , and Malee Jenajaroen , all from Thailand . |
| 20 | Leading the charge against Luton on Saturday was one of the young braves , Joey Beauchamp . |
| 21 | The pressures on space created in Nottingham ( q.v. ) by the rapid expansion of the lace industry in the nineteenth century caused the partial dispersal of the work to other towns within easy reach of the chief centre , and Beeston was one of the main beneficiaries . |
| 22 | Oil group Lasmo was one of the first major companies to report full-year results . |
| 23 | Ballooning was one of the five crucial issues identified by the NII last year in its initial comments on the board 's Pre-Construction Safety Report ( RSR ) . |
| 24 | Dan Dare was one of the great favourites of Eagle readers . |
| 25 | Patrington was one of the ‘ towns ’ recorded in the Domesday Book and has the earliest recorded evidence of any settlement in Holderness . |
| 26 | Faversham was one of the main centres in England of the honour of Boulogne , which country lay against the border of western Flanders , whose mercantile centre was at St Omer . |
| 27 | Swindon Town are off to Sunderland … they beat the wearsiders one nil down here … the winner from Glenn Hoddle was one of the goals of the seasons … |
| 28 | TI was one of the first companies to include a cash flow statement in its accounts , and it will implement FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , in its 1992 accounts . |
| 29 | As a canon of Durham Ramsey was one of the custodians of a great monument of the European inheritance in architecture , at a time when bombs dropped upon Britain . |
| 30 | Blonde Sue was one of the first people at his hospital bedside in Manchester Royal Infirmary . |