Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orphans were one of these phenomena , as was the great Famine of 1921 2 . |
| 2 | Chairman of Cleveland County Council Ted Wood was one of many visitors . |
| 3 | Boosbeck , he says , was one of many attempts by middle-class people to help the very poor . |
| 4 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | He was one of many ministers on the ‘ death rota ’ , as he called it . |
| 6 | For Doug Green classroom management was one of many issues : |
| 7 | Tricia Liggett got interested in the body 's structure initially because she was one of many sufferers from back pain . |
| 8 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 9 | The Earlys trip was one of many jobs Land Travel had contracted out to Macleans , the Witney coach firm . |
| 10 | The Earlys trip was one of many jobs Land Travel had contracted out to Macleans , the Witney coach firm . |
| 11 | Malcolm Muggeridge was one of many observers of the political scene to note the ‘ unmistakable tang ’ of anti-Semitism in the air . |
| 12 | Richard Grove of Cambridge University was one of many conservationists who attacked the Commission 's policies of converting deciduous , often ancient , woods to conifers . |
| 13 | He was one of many sailors who , when they disappeared to sea for a year or more , would receive letters from Minton , most of which were torn up or thrown away . |
| 14 | The Bourgeois Gentilhomme was one of many enterprises in Chelsea which survived entirely by selling antiques to each other . |
| 15 | It was one of those gems in a terrible situation that teaches you never ever to judge anybody by the cover . |
| 16 | Simone was one of those girls who hardly seemed to change at all from one year to the next . |
| 17 | Comments like ‘ if I was one of those parents , I 'd be so ashamed I 'd want to keep out of the limelight ’ were heard from some of those connected with the local authority . |
| 18 | It was one of those calls that change lives . |
| 19 | The way he explained it to Boy , it was one of those moments of giving up , one of those moments when you throw away your still half-full packet of cigarettes as you walk home in the drizzle and you say out loud , well that is it , that is the last time . |
| 20 | It was one of those moments in life , when pure instinct takes over and only love seems important , and one moves far beyond roles . |
| 21 | It was one of those moments one remembers forever : the moment of supreme happiness just before disaster strikes . |
| 22 | It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history . |
| 23 | This was one of those moments ; not of ecstasy , exactly , but of utter calm . |
| 24 | It was one of those moments when Time itself freezes solid . |
| 25 | Again it was one of those games where defensive mistakes gave the points away . |
| 26 | I ALWAYS thought lesbianism was one of those things you had to be born with , like the ability to do the splits . |
| 27 | Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself . |
| 28 | It was one of those things you know , when you get called names . |
| 29 | ‘ It was one of those things and I do n't want to say anything more about it . ’ |
| 30 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |