Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state and defence departments said airdrops were one of a range of options being studied by a task force of US government officials . |
| 2 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 3 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 4 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 5 | When Ivy and Margaret had gone to get their gas masks in 1939 ‘ the girl ’ had asked Margaret if she were one of the heroines of An Adventure . |
| 6 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 7 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 8 | Des was one of a litter of seven pups found at the EFI compound at Jubail . |
| 9 | Gladstone , a rare Gloucester Old Spot boar , was one of a litter of 12 piglets , born at Elms School at Colwall near Malvern in Worcestershire just five months ago . |
| 10 | He was one of a caste of brutish Annamese of low intelligence widely cultivated by the French colonizers to serve them as jailers , labor foremen and police . |
| 11 | The house was one of a row of nineteenth-century brick artisan dwellings whose neat and harmonious proportions were now being ruined as recent prosperity allowed the enlargement of windows and the addition of porches , complete with brass carriage lamps and , Tallboy thought vindictively , bloody tubular bells . |
| 12 | The message from gays and lesbians living in rural Ireland was one of a sense of isolation which might aptly be tackled through the medium of film , which has the potential to act as a focus for the many people geographically isolated and thus tongue-tied by virtue of their isolation . |
| 13 | The schedule for energy and energy resources was one of a range of expansions . |
| 14 | BP was one of a consortium of international oil companies that set up an oil spill response base in Singapore . |
| 15 | Ferguson was one of a crop of outstanding young Scottish prospects named by Andy Roxburgh this week who can play a more prominent role in the fortunes of the national team . |
| 16 | ‘ Alan George ’ was one of a batch of locos built to toil at Penrhyn Quarries in North Wales , withdrawn in 1953 after a 70 year working life . |
| 17 | Section 15(1) enacts that ‘ notwithstanding anything in any other enactment , a claim under the Act shall not be entertained after the expiration of 30 years from the date of the occurrence which gives rise to the claim , or , where that occurrence was a continuing one , or was one of a succession of occurrences all attributable to a particular happening ’ on a particular site , the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence or succession of occurrences is the relevant one . |
| 18 | This machine was one of a flight of eight 603 Squadron machines scrambled from Ta'Qali on July 8 , 1942 . |
| 19 | Hence the cusp was not , at this time at least , a steady-state spatial feature , but was one of a sequence of poleward-moving events . |
| 20 | Equally productive , though somewhat more sophisticated , was James Williamson , a former portrait photographer and lanternist who was one of a group of filmmakers gathered in Brighton . |
| 21 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 22 | The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko , the artist 's daughter , and which raised £445,648 in total . |
| 23 | In the mid-'80s , Chris Curry was one of a group of entrepreneurs busy creating the Silicon Fen in Cambridge . |
| 24 | Butenko was one of a group of leading scholars which met regularly from the spring of 1987 under party auspices with a view to formulating an adequate and up-to-date conception of socialism . |
| 25 | According to the chronicler Thomas Walsingham [ q.v. ] he was one of a group of knights who were adherents of the ideas of John Wycliffe [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | Thornton was one of a group of manuscript chart-makers , who , since the early seventeenth century , had plied their trade as members of the Drapers ' Company in shops lining the streets and alleys down-river from the Tower of London . |
| 27 | In Hudson v. Chief Constable , Avon and Somerset Constabulary , the defendant was one of a group of football supporters who ‘ became excited , jumping up and down and clapping his hands above his head . ’ |
| 28 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 29 | I was one of a group of army cadets taken on an adventurous training camp , at Newtonmore , to learn new skills . |
| 30 | Mr Rose-Smith was one of a party of three men , all from Ayrshire , making their way down the mountain when he slipped on ice . |