Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
2 | If you were one of the killers … ’ |
3 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
4 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
5 | wonderful wonderful last Easter weekend back from Glasgow we were warned there was gon na be delays and we were fortunate we were one of the groups who came back fairly early . |
6 | The Anarchists were one of the groups they moved against . |
7 | Former Cavern DJ Bob Wooler recalls : ‘ The Dennisons were one of the groups who deserved to make it really big . |
8 | They were one of the reasons we moved to St. Albans . |
9 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
10 | When Ivy and Margaret had gone to get their gas masks in 1939 ‘ the girl ’ had asked Margaret if she were one of the heroines of An Adventure . |
11 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
12 | Here we find the ring of truth because if you were one of the disciples and Jesus had appeared to you , what would you have told your friends ? |
13 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
14 | Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973 . |
15 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
16 | As you will know , because we were one of the finalists last year , we ca n't get into the finals of Britain in Bloom this year , nor can we win an award as a ‘ first time entry ’ in the Best Kept Village competition . |
17 | Mr Brooke said the summer 's inter-party discussions were not peace talks as such , but they were one of the pressures that could be mounted on the terrorists . |
18 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
19 | Fine … if we were one of the sports who take ‘ Gate Money ’ and have a following of spectators who supply an income but as you are aware this is not ‘ US ’ . |
20 | The high costs were one of the justifications for the creation of a Government Working Party on Woonerven in 1984 , with a brief to assess the operation of Woonerven some seven years after the first legislation . |
21 | British members of Parliament invariably use it in their own defence when their opinions diverge from those of their constituency parties ; and the Labour Party 's introduction of compulsory reselection for sitting MPs before each general election was one of the catalysts of the split in the party which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 . |
22 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
23 | The young woman 's father was one of the letter-writers . |
24 | For a nation of radicals and independents such as France , the creation of the Union Sacrée whereby men of all political hues submerged their feuds in the interests of national unity was one of the miracles of all time . |
25 | In between time as I say we 'd had 's header wide which was one of the mysteries of the first half . |
26 | I imagine that that was one of the matters raised with the hon. Gentleman , and I hope that he was able to assure farmers of the splendid job that my noble Friend is doing for farming in Scotland . |
27 | That was one of the challenges of his life . |
28 | This was one of the challenges Yarm teenager Kathryn Clapham had to overcome to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
29 | Erm , the fact is , she did n't play a dominant part in the standard tradition , although she was one of the editors , of course . |
30 | The story of St Godric was one of the foundations of Henri Pirenne 's notions about the recruitment of merchants in this age . |