Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 2 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 3 | There was one of a young man in her class that I 'd never met but … wait a minute ! ’ |
| 4 | During its six years of existence , Minton was one of a wide range of English and French artists who either visited it or , like Léger , lectured there , or who performed as guest teacher-critics . |
| 5 | She seemed unable to appreciate the fact that Henry himself was one of a threatened species , even though that threat was treated with contempt by most ecologists and nearly all women . |
| 6 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 7 | John Thomson was one of a small number of photographers , who seems to have been motivated by a genuine desire to ‘ document ’ . |
| 8 | He was one of a small nucleus of highly creative and far-seeing people assembled by Alec Clegg to make an educational vision a practical reality in the primary schools of the West Riding . |
| 9 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 10 | From 1316 to 1319 Audley was one of a small group of courtiers , including Roger Damory [ q.v. ] and Hugh Despenser junior [ q.v. ] , husbands of the other two Gloucester co-heiresses , who kept a tight grip on Edward II 's patronage and favour ; though he was perhaps the least prominent of the three . |
| 11 | The floor was carpeted and the impression was one of a small library in a rather run-down country house . |
| 12 | A maintenance man , with a garden fork and wheelbarrow , was tending the herbaceous border that stretched along the frontage of the flats and , in response to Morse 's question , he said he was one of a small team that looked after the three blocks of flats that stood on the eastern side of Water Eaton Road . |
| 13 | Mr Smith was one of a small group of campaigners who visited electrical stores on High Row last weekend . |
| 14 | ‘ Gaultier was one of a new breed of French designers , ’ recalls Tolson . |
| 15 | Elliot was one of a new type of mining engineer whose expertise extended to many parts of the industry . |
| 16 | At least , this was the opinion of Dugdale , writing a hundred years later ; but it should be remembered that he was one of a long line of propagandists for land drainage , and that , while localized deterioration must have taken place , there is also ample evidence of the activities of the courts of sewers and of individual enterprise by secular landlords . |
| 17 | Dustin was one of a long line of candidates being screen-tested in a ten-minute scene with Katharine Ross . |
| 18 | Designed by Sydney Camm , the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable . |
| 19 | One of the major figures of the Industrial Revolution , Arkwright was one of a poor Lancashire family of thirteen children . |
| 20 | Virginia Woolf was one of a limited number of outspoken feminists of the time whose attitudes to gender provide a contemporary feminist yardstick for the analysis of Walker 's treatment of women , Woolf , like Walker , assumed a dichotomy of human characteristics and qualities according to gender . |
| 21 | In rehearsal Rowicki 's method was one of a patient but relentless taskmaster . |
| 22 | The ‘ riot ’ was easily dispersed by the local gentry but it was one of a growing number of incidents . |
| 23 | He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two . |
| 24 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 25 | He was one of a select group , which included the justiciars Robert de Beaumont , first Earl of Leicester , and Richard de Lucy , and the treasurer Nigel , bishop of Ely [ qq.v. ] , who provided continuity between the old and the new regimes . |
| 26 | While the larger estates like Ashburnham or Sheffield controlled almost all aspects of local production and distribution , the pattern elsewhere was one of a widespread use of individuals , contracting as suppliers , carters and labour . |
| 27 | The picture painted in court was one of a jealous and possessive mistress who enlisted the help of her younger sister to kill . |
| 28 | Before moving into AIDS research , John was one of a British team working on mouse antibodies that did recognise the enemy — or at least my particular enemy , low-grade follicular lymphoma . |
| 29 | The history of the Earth before about 2.5 billion years ago was one of a high rate of heat-loss mainly through vertical tectonic motions . |
| 30 | Robert was one of a large family . |