Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 2 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 3 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 4 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 5 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 6 | That was one for the book . |
| 7 | This was one for the book . |
| 8 | Well , that was one for the album : the ex-FAKINTIL sapper together with the malai Colonel 's wife , half-naked in her boudoir . |
| 9 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 10 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 11 | There was one on the persecution of the Church , another on the post-war internment camps for dissidents , another on the collectivisation of the villages , still another on the show trials of the early 1950s . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 13 | He made no sound : he was one with the land . |
| 14 | There was one towards the end that was very slow , very simple , very sad , but so beautiful beyond words or drawing or anything but music , beautiful there in the moonlight . |
| 15 | Odd survivors burned like overhead beacons ; there was one under the bridge just ahead , and another one about a hundred yards beyond . |
| 16 | There was one amongst the dross people in their three ranks of fives who stood out . |
| 17 | There was one by the newsstand sometimes , scraping at a violin , but he had a tough time competing with the unofficial buskers who had loud guitars and stronger voices . |
| 18 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 19 | Unless there was one in the back wall , he would have to abandon the entire exercise . |
| 20 | There was one in the cell . |
| 21 | It was one in the morning when the DDA put down the phone and wiped his hands on his pyjamas . |
| 22 | It was one in the eye for the old order . |
| 23 | Did at least 50% of those interviewed state that they would buy the products mentioned from a hypermarket if there was one in the area ? |
| 24 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |