Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state and defence departments said airdrops were one of a range of options being studied by a task force of US government officials . |
| 2 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 3 | Essentially , their form was one of a council composed of an equal number of representatives of employers and organised workmen , sometimes with an independent chairman and normally with inbuilt arbitration in case of disputes . |
| 4 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 5 | ‘ He was one of a kind . ’ |
| 6 | Des was one of a litter of seven pups found at the EFI compound at Jubail . |
| 7 | Gladstone , a rare Gloucester Old Spot boar , was one of a litter of 12 piglets , born at Elms School at Colwall near Malvern in Worcestershire just five months ago . |
| 8 | The large settee , upholstered in dark blue material , was one of a suite with three matching armchairs . |
| 9 | He was one of a caste of brutish Annamese of low intelligence widely cultivated by the French colonizers to serve them as jailers , labor foremen and police . |
| 10 | From 1793 that economy was one of a country at war . |
| 11 | Back in Britain a year or two later , I was one of a panel collected to perform before a group of young Americans who were paying Richard Demarco , Edinburgh 's most flamboyant cultural entrepreneur , for the privilege of drinking the wisdom of the New Scottish Enlightenment at source . |
| 12 | Carefully , he crawled the breadth of the building and , to his relief , he saw that the house beneath him was one of a row . |
| 13 | The house was one of a row of nineteenth-century brick artisan dwellings whose neat and harmonious proportions were now being ruined as recent prosperity allowed the enlargement of windows and the addition of porches , complete with brass carriage lamps and , Tallboy thought vindictively , bloody tubular bells . |
| 14 | The message from gays and lesbians living in rural Ireland was one of a sense of isolation which might aptly be tackled through the medium of film , which has the potential to act as a focus for the many people geographically isolated and thus tongue-tied by virtue of their isolation . |
| 15 | The schedule for energy and energy resources was one of a range of expansions . |
| 16 | BP was one of a consortium of international oil companies that set up an oil spill response base in Singapore . |
| 17 | Historically , the notion of a ‘ professional ’ was one of a person who was not an employee of the organization but in ‘ public practice ’ and in some sense , therefore , perceived to be able to offer impartial advice . |
| 18 | Ferguson was one of a crop of outstanding young Scottish prospects named by Andy Roxburgh this week who can play a more prominent role in the fortunes of the national team . |
| 19 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | ‘ Alan George ’ was one of a batch of locos built to toil at Penrhyn Quarries in North Wales , withdrawn in 1953 after a 70 year working life . |
| 21 | Section 15(1) enacts that ‘ notwithstanding anything in any other enactment , a claim under the Act shall not be entertained after the expiration of 30 years from the date of the occurrence which gives rise to the claim , or , where that occurrence was a continuing one , or was one of a succession of occurrences all attributable to a particular happening ’ on a particular site , the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence or succession of occurrences is the relevant one . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , it was one of a set , wondrously carved from pewter . |
| 23 | Richard Goldschmidt 's problem — which was one of a set that made him resort , for most of his professional life , to the extreme belief that evolution takes great leaps rather than small steps — turns out to be no problem at all . |
| 24 | This machine was one of a flight of eight 603 Squadron machines scrambled from Ta'Qali on July 8 , 1942 . |
| 25 | Hence the cusp was not , at this time at least , a steady-state spatial feature , but was one of a sequence of poleward-moving events . |
| 26 | Equally productive , though somewhat more sophisticated , was James Williamson , a former portrait photographer and lanternist who was one of a group of filmmakers gathered in Brighton . |
| 27 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 28 | The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko , the artist 's daughter , and which raised £445,648 in total . |
| 29 | In the mid-'80s , Chris Curry was one of a group of entrepreneurs busy creating the Silicon Fen in Cambridge . |
| 30 | Butenko was one of a group of leading scholars which met regularly from the spring of 1987 under party auspices with a view to formulating an adequate and up-to-date conception of socialism . |