Example sentences of "[was/were] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his theme — that Labour would concentrate on supply-side deficiencies of the British economy -was one which would naturally appeal to non-political parents and teachers and to business people seeking literate and numerate employees . |
| 2 | We were one in adversity . |
| 3 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 4 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 5 | He obviously thinks you were one . |
| 6 | Even when I was a child , I behaved as if I were one . ’ |
| 7 | The 141 totals achieved by Page and Maguire were one under par for the 36 holes , Page managing a 69 before lunch and Maguire following with a 69 . |
| 8 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 9 | But to write as though the problem were one simply of petty snobbery and priggishness is , wilfully or not , to trivialize the argument , and not to hear the voices . |
| 10 | In south-west Hertfordshire one in seven of the working-class boys secured entry to a grammar school , compared with one in two of the sons of clerks ; the corresponding proportions in Middlesborough were one in eight and one in three . |
| 11 | Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government ( 1969 ) ( Redcliffe-Maude Report ) ( among the research studies undertaken for the Royal Commission were one on Economies of Scale in Local Government , another on the Performance and Size of Local Education Authorities , and a third on Aspects of Administration in a Large Local Authority ) ; |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I 've come back , ’ she said in her heart , and for a moment she and those tossing green waters were one . |
| 13 | Perhaps such behaviour was more easily endured if the children were one 's own . |
| 14 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 15 | Were one permitted one confident prediction , it would be of the likelihood of an increasingly oppressive authority in areas of urban desolation . |
| 16 | It was odd , she thought , how if one was alone , one leant to things , inanimate things ; trees , streams , flowers ; felt they expressed one ; felt they became one ; felt they knew one , in a sense were one ; felt an irrational tenderness thus ( she looked at that long steady light ) as for oneself' . |
| 17 | Granny lived about half a mile away , in a narrow street with drab shops dotted between the houses , which were one down and two up , like ours . |
| 18 | The scoreline was unkind to Leeds , who should have been one up through Rod Wallace but were one down when poor defending let Sheron in . |
| 19 | One and one were one . |
| 20 | Were one to define the Pacific in terms of its tectonics alone , then it would be a sea considerably shrunk from that to which we are accustomed . |
| 21 | Were one to create a mouse the size of a moose , that mouse would probably have a folded neocortex if its cortex had increased in proportion to the increase in its body size . |
| 22 | This , this sounds very much like some , er organisation based on the establishment to me that 's what it sounds like which eh , were one would expect . |
| 23 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 24 | Where among the fathers there had been one representative each of gamekeeper , watchman , pilot , none of these trades was represented among the husbands : instead there were one each of policeman , teacher , minister of religion , prison warder and two farmers : occupations entirely absent from the list of fathers . |
| 25 | ‘ Above reassured Mme Guérigny that her son 's and my interests were one . |
| 26 | Zaidie and Matadial were the most important Crown witnesses to the facts , or alleged facts , which preceded and followed the shooting and the statements were one made by Zaidie to the police on 12 January 1987 , the day after the shooting , one by Matadial on the same day and an addendum by Matadial made on 9 May 1987 . |
| 27 | The boy stands , arms at sides , absolutely frontal without turn , twist or bend ; were one to bisect him vertically the two halves would be mirror-images , except that the left leg is forward , the right back . |
| 28 | One was always afraid , there were spies everywhere and one could never be sure who were one 's friends . |
| 29 | Father was an old-time Methodist ; sex and the devil were one . |
| 30 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |