Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 2 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 3 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 4 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 5 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 6 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 7 | The fighting season 1346–7 was one for the English to remember . |
| 8 | She had made her point — that Suzi was one on a long , long list , and that Gesner was her parents ' generation . |
| 9 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 10 | Always I had found magic in small islands , and here was one with a full-rigged galleon of a cathedral as if moored alongside . |
| 11 | That straightness of Time , that confining straightness , was one with the Western picture of setting the world to rights . |
| 12 | In this sense , ‘ free ’ carried a load of genealogical history : a free man was one with an authentic Zuwaya ancestry . |
| 13 | Among its most notorious performances was one by a Brazilian troupe whose members bit the heads off live chickens in the course of the action . |
| 14 | Referring to a case where grammar school children got drunk one night and began damaging cars and property , one of the juvenile liaison police said , ‘ It was the old drink , like , that did it , but there was one from a local children 's home . |
| 15 | There was one from an American girl in Berlin . |
| 16 | However , because all the cards bearing messages of sympathy had been removed , exactly who had sent flowers other than his immediate family , and whether there was one from the infamous Kray twins , must remain a mystery to all but the Thompsons themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ He was one in a million was Charlie . |
| 18 | He was one in a million ! ’ |
| 19 | Twenty-four-year-old Wilkinson said : ‘ Brian Clough was one in a million at Nottingham Forest . |
| 20 | Mr Gibson said that procedures were being examined to prevent a recurrence and the incident was one in a million . |
| 21 | alcove and there was one in the one far corner and sitting on the corner together , they were holding hands going every so often he hears . |