Example sentences of "[prep] [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 2 | I said there must of been one |
| 3 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 4 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 5 | Pinto beans have the distinction of being one of the quickest beans to cook . |
| 6 | The tapir has the distinction of being one of the oldest forms of mammal . |
| 7 | Thomas Deloney , reckoned to be England 's first novelist , mentions dastardly goings-on there in the late 1500s , so the Ostrich has the distinction of being one of the half a dozen claimants to the title of oldest inn in England , and is also the first mentioned in an English novel . |
| 8 | Yet Burn 's Revesby shares with Soane 's Pelwall the distinction of being one of two houses Save and English Heritage have done most to save from demolition , and rightly so . |
| 9 | And there are some wonderfully positive people among those who have permanent disabilities or terminal illnesses so it is not just a case of being one of the ‘ lucky ’ ones . |
| 10 | Coefficient b shows the direct effect of being one of the richer respondents on preparedness to break the law . |
| 11 | ‘ Any Englishman , ’ said Thiercelin between sips , ‘ who is drifting about Vienna at present , supposedly as a tourist , has at least an even chance of being one of Pitt 's spies . |
| 12 | Jose and his wife , Iara , live in the shanty town of Jacarezinha in Caxias , which has the reputation of being one of the most violent in Rio . |
| 13 | The holograms on every spread of Ghost Train ( Orchard , £9.99 ) are genuinely spooky , and with its amusing story Stephon Wyllie stands a chance of being one of the top sellers this Christmas , along with new editions of former top-sellers such as Roald Dahl 's The Giraffe and The Pelly And Me ( Cape £8.99 ) . |
| 14 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 15 | AS COOL as she is beautiful , Selina Scott has the reputation of being one of Britain 's most secretive women . |
| 16 | During the 1920s and '30s , Chance had the now dubious honour of being one of the best-known egg-collectors in Britain . |
| 17 | Our company is rapidly growing with the objective of being one of the top five chemical companies in the world and is using all possible means to achieve it . |
| 18 | Whilst Chesterton 's later justified reputation of being one of the most rabid anti-semites connected with British fascism would suggest that this was like asking a cat to drink a bowl of cream , there is little evidence to suggest that prior to his involvement in the BUF he viewed the world primarily through anti-semitic spectacles , despite being a second cousin to such notorious anti-semites as Cecil and G.K. Chesterton . |
| 19 | If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’ |
| 20 | M67 has the reputation of being one of the most ancient of the open clusters . |
| 21 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 22 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 23 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 24 | Over the years Blackpool has earned its reputation of being one of the most famous seaside resorts in England . |
| 25 | The university town of Freiburg enjoys the reputation of being one of Germany 's most attractive and well loved cities . |
| 26 | The department has the advantage of being one of the oldest and therefore best supported in the country . |
| 27 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 28 | PETER Swales is unlikely to find any escape this week from the pressures of being one of soccer 's most powerful men . |
| 29 | I had the honour and privilege of being one of the veteran marchers , and the cheering and applause was unbelievable and very emotional . |
| 30 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |