Example sentences of "was one [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I believe he was one of the many aircraft that General Galland 's flying wing and the German Navy shot down on route through the narrows of the Channel . |
| 32 | Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five . |
| 33 | Hitting the headlines again , Connors was one of the many businesses affected in the Bangor and Portadown bombs this year . |
| 34 | Jess was one of the many who were very pleased to reach the 19th hole . |
| 35 | Here this reviewer must admit an interest : as political editor of The Scotsman in those days , he was one of the latter . |
| 36 | Damsell 's was one of the latter for , by the mid-1840s the firm of Lord and Archer were grinding corn there . |
| 37 | Alexander Peden was one of the latter group . |
| 38 | Our aircraft ( with mainplanes detached ) overflowed from the hangar deck onto the quarter deck and it was one of the latter which was rendered u/s during bad weather experienced in the Atlantic . ’ |
| 39 | Nithard was one of the latter sort . |
| 40 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |
| 41 | To scoffs of disbelief from some delegates , he asserted that , where managed safely and sensibly , nuclear power was one of the few energy sources which did not pollute the atmosphere . |
| 42 | Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests . |
| 43 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 44 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 45 | Anderson was one of the few members of the British colonial administration who , remaining in Africa after British colonialism retreated , made a successful transition to serving the independent governments of the continent . |
| 46 | Allen , who had a goal disallowed , was one of the few players to perform well for Wales on a night when they were generally outclassed . |
| 47 | Mikey Craig , from Culture Club , was one of the few . |
| 48 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 49 | Her mother , she thought with a most annoying pride , who was one of the few genuinely creative women scientists around and in whose success , were it anyone except her mother 's , she would be rejoicing . |
| 50 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 51 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 52 | Mr Gidaspov , however , who is not a party apparatchik , was one of the few top Communists to retain popularity with the Leningrad electorate . |
| 53 | Mr Gidaspov , however , who is not a party apparatchik , was one of the few top Communists to retain popularity with the Leningrad electorate . |
| 54 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 55 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 56 | George Seawright is a Scot who had developed an interest in Ulster politics while still in Springburn , near Glasgow , where he was one of the few Scottish members of Paisley 's Ulster Protestant Volunteers . |
| 57 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
| 58 | Of course , sermon-tasting was one of the few traits shared by all church-going Victorians . |
| 59 | Mrs Mary Brunell , 67 , was one of the few outright supporters of the Ashdown personality cult . |
| 60 | Mr Jose-Maria Mendiluce , special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees , was one of the few permitted to pass through Zvornik in a white Jeep bearing the organisation 's flag . |