Example sentences of "was one [prep] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A football match with a one-legged goalkeeper and all of the crowd bearing arms was one of many memorable scenes . |
| 2 | Sailor Malan was one of many South Africans who served with great distinction in either the RFC or the RAF — including such names as Andrew Proctor VC , ‘ Boetie ’ Venter and S M Kinkead from World War I and ‘ Pat ’ Pattle , John Nettleton VC and Edwin Swaley VC from World War II . |
| 3 | Richard Grove of Cambridge University was one of many conservationists who attacked the Commission 's policies of converting deciduous , often ancient , woods to conifers . |
| 4 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | It was one of many Method exercises taught to help the actor to reach inside of himself , unleashing personal emotions in an effort to heighten realism . |
| 6 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 7 | This particular book was one of many given to parochial libraries in England and America by the Associates of Rev. Dr Bray ( 1656–1730 ) from 1709 onwards . |
| 8 | That world was one of many small men co-operating in order to survive . |
| 9 | He was one of many people of mixed race I was to meet in Algeria . |
| 10 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 11 | Malcolm Muggeridge was one of many observers of the political scene to note the ‘ unmistakable tang ’ of anti-Semitism in the air . |
| 12 | Sir Walter Scott was one of many who wrote to offer sympathy , enclosing a small sum which might stop a leak in a vessel . |
| 13 | As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’ |
| 14 | He was one of many ministers on the ‘ death rota ’ , as he called it . |
| 15 | It was one of many ‘ errors and omissions ’ pushing up the cost of road works according to the government 's National Audit Office . |
| 16 | ‘ Till then he was one of many nightclub characters in New York . |
| 17 | Harmsworth was one of many — others include Marconi and the pioneers of the film industry — who were at the forefront of what Briggs has called ‘ the development of the mass entertainment industry ’ at the turn of the century . |
| 18 | The incident was one of many domestic crises which crowded in upon the royal couple in those tumultuous early days . |
| 19 | He was one of many sailors who , when they disappeared to sea for a year or more , would receive letters from Minton , most of which were torn up or thrown away . |
| 20 | The great Croat writer , the late Miroslav Krleža , in his Ballade Petrice Kerempuha , written in the kajkavski dialect of the Zagreb region , was one of many who drew inspiration from the terrible events of 1573 . |
| 21 | Tricia Liggett got interested in the body 's structure initially because she was one of many sufferers from back pain . |
| 22 | The hairy-nosed wombat was one of many rare species to receive a single vote . |
| 23 | During the first two decades of its existence it was one of many organisations which argued insistently for the creation of National Parks . |
| 24 | The Bourgeois Gentilhomme was one of many enterprises in Chelsea which survived entirely by selling antiques to each other . |
| 25 | And there was one of many heartrending stories about a doctor . |
| 26 | I was one of many thousands of unemployed school leavers . |
| 27 | For Doug Green classroom management was one of many issues : |
| 28 | It was clear to Leith then that Olinda Bray was one of many . |
| 29 | The Earlys trip was one of many jobs Land Travel had contracted out to Macleans , the Witney coach firm . |
| 30 | The Earlys trip was one of many jobs Land Travel had contracted out to Macleans , the Witney coach firm . |