Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] [be] one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action that followed was one of the most bizarre that sailing-ships ever fought , for it took place in a November gale that might well have put the whole of both fleets on to the rocks , but it was a complete defeat for the French who lost nine ships while the British lost only two . |
| 2 | The scene that followed was one of the most dramatic in the history of warfare and destined to live , like the defence of Derry , in Irish Protestant annals . |
| 3 | Anxious that Lally should not return to find her naked , she huddled into a blue satin kimono that had been one of Aunt Tossie 's many over-grand presents . |
| 4 | Having to rise first for the privacy that afforded was one of the penalties of living in a two-roomed house where the kitchen also doubled as a bedroom . |
| 5 | The picture that emerges is one of a fluid matrix of bilayer lipid in , or upon , which proteins and glycoproteins are located ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , only 29 per cent of farmers had actually altered field boundaries between 1949 and 1 978 , and only one-third had reclaimed moorland in the last 7 to 1 5 years , and so the picture that emerges is one of a more dynamic profit-motivated minority replacing a more conservation and landscape-orientated majority where still 56 per cent of farmers are over 50 . |
| 7 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |