Example sentences of "it [was/were] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
| 2 | Equalization is not so much between classes as between individuals within a population which is now treated for this purpose as though it were one class . |
| 3 | Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six . |
| 4 | Cos it , I think it were one pound thirty nine or one pound forty six , something like that not dear , anyway er to buy two and then you get the third one free . |
| 5 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 6 | Eventually , when Radio Clyde said ‘ No recording , no Masses ’ , and the bishops got themselves into a situation when it was one law for Clyde and another for the BBC , did the recorded Mass become a possibility . |
| 7 | It was one element in the search , on occasion the scramble , for diversification . |
| 8 | " I believe it was one Arthur Pascoe , ma'am . |
| 9 | Without Spanish , it was one crag we 'd never have visited . |
| 10 | It was one word . |
| 11 | Yeah , but it was one salary |
| 12 | Neolithic in origin , it was one ofthe major cult centres of Aphrodite and one of the great cities ofthe Graeco-Roman period . |
| 13 | Fifty two litres roughly so if it was one voucher for fifteen that 's three in n it ? |
| 14 | I graduated in fifty-seven so it was one year 's in fifty-eight . |
| 15 | It was one year she could of done without the invitation though is n't it ? , if she , if she wanted her other friends and Neil . |
| 16 | In Rochester , it was one driver and three labourers . |
| 17 | David did not know quite where to look , but it was one occasion , he subsequently recounted to his friends , when it was better to travel than to arrive . |
| 18 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 19 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 20 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 21 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 22 | It was one way of getting down , he supposed . |
| 23 | It was one way of getting money . |
| 24 | True , it was one way of keeping Dana from London and a meeting with Berenice , but why go to such lengths ? |
| 25 | It was one way of having her say . |
| 26 | It was one person 's word against another . |
| 27 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 28 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 29 | Position reports transmitted from the aircraft indicate that it was one minute ahead of flight plan times at 30°W longitude , one minute behind flight plan at 40°W longitude , and seven minutes behind flight plan at 50°W longitude . |
| 30 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |