Example sentences of "was one [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was not a world of the concrete ; it was one of winks , illusions and intimations . |
| 2 | Our first sight of the restaurant was one of lanterns twinkling through the dusk . |
| 3 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 4 | and I think it was one of things which never really took off in terms of the accident |
| 5 | . . And er this was one of things that my old boss , when people came into name their children , he said Now remember , these initials will go on case , perhaps , one day , and you do n't want S A P , or something like that . |
| 6 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 7 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 8 | If the 1959 Act had proved itself suitable only for the control of sexual depictions or descriptions where the question was one of manners rather than morals , then the recommendation of the Commission might have been acceptable , since sex between consenting adults in private was no longer a matter for the British criminal law . |
| 9 | The Princess of Wales was one of scores of mourners who attended Louis ' funeral last year . |
| 10 | But Mr Major 's address was one of thanks , even humility . |
| 11 | Though , in the last desperate days of February , it may hardly have seemed the most dramatic , undoubtedly the gravest problem confronting Pétain was one of communications . |
| 12 | Bodley 's life was one of disappointments , over Dilke 's disgrace , the Manning biography , the coronation record , and the lack of English official acknowledgement of his work for Anglo-French relations . |