Example sentences of "have been one [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he enjoyed picnics ; in the Guide he recounts how one day during a drive up Little Langdale and home by Dungeon Ghyll , ‘ the cloth was laid on the green grass , for that was the table : the cold collation was next produced from the carts , and the writer , though he has been one of many , has seldom witnessed more cheerful gipsyings . |
| 2 | Professor Barrie Wilson , Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University , who has been one of those most closely involved with implementing recent management changes , says staff are still mainly concerned with teaching well and doing lots of research . |
| 3 | ‘ Fundamentalism ’ , Islamic and otherwise , has been one of these . |
| 4 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 5 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 6 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 7 | Hallucigenia may have been one of these . |
| 8 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 9 | Brother Joachim , like many of the Franciscans , must have been one of these . |
| 10 | ‘ He could have been one of several . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 12 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 13 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 14 | He could never have been one of those charismatic men and women who inspire and enthuse ; equally , he could never have achieved an indifferent acceptance of failure . |
| 15 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 16 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 17 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 18 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 19 | Bernard seems to have been one of those who swore that Pippin would come . |
| 20 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 21 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 22 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 23 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 24 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 25 | It had been one of those days . |
| 26 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 27 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 28 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 29 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 30 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |