Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed , falling in with his mood while being legged up , but instead of forgetting the incident her mind was full of the moments she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 2 | But the crucial thing he had n't told us was that his girlfriend was one of the operators involved in the ring , and he 'd just had a big row with her . |
| 3 | Vee was one of the acts who took Holly 's place at a concert on the night he was killed , and a pop manager spotted him and signed him up . |
| 4 | An annual further education programme was one of the things which became possible thanks to the availability of full-time professional staff . |
| 5 | Johan was one of the patrons at the Bath Festival when we met . |
| 6 | A more severe music critic was one of the cats owned by Frenchman C.C. Pierquin de Gembloux . |
| 7 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 8 | Some writers went on to argue that attracting high ability youngsters into manufacturing industry was one of the conditions for a regeneration of the British economy . |
| 9 | His desk was clear of the papers that were memorized and locked in his personal safe . |
| 10 | Along with Francois Truffaut , Claude Chabrol and other contributors , he became a director himself , and the brilliance of their early work was one of the reasons their views became so firmly enshrined . |
| 11 | Nashville Skyline was one of the albums he put out after his motorcycle accident , from which the critics concluded that he must have somehow injured his brain … |
| 12 | Case management was one of the requirements . |
| 13 | The Committee was one of the stalwarts of the Scott stable five years ago when he was landing hurdling prizes . |
| 14 | Each committee was aware of the dangers of individual or mass arrest , and contingency plans were made for the automatic replacement of committee members should they be arrested . |
| 15 | Green was one of the forerunners of the Garden City Movement . |
| 16 | The chairman of the council was one of the victims losing his seat to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 17 | An association spokesman said it was vital the borough council was aware of the problems being encountered . |
| 18 | Another rider who fell off when in contention was one of the favourites Phillip McCallen who left the race at Church Corner , Portrush on lap three . |
| 19 | His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport . |
| 20 | An intelligentsia was one of the byproducts , ranging from priests to teachers , journalists and writers . |
| 21 | This accident was one of the factors which prompted the then Labour government to decide that the new oxide fuel plant should be subjected to a full-scale public inquiry . |
| 22 | Dedication to the job was one of the factors in the break up of Mr Souness 's marriage . |
| 23 | The farmhouse was one of the homes of the Sandys family . |
| 24 | The feast was one of the highlights of the 10-year-old prince 's stay on a ranch in Montana . |
| 25 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 26 | The match was reminiscent of the problems of schools ' football — the big school with 11 good players will always beat the village school which has only six or seven . |
| 27 | The Alliss match was one of the highlights of an occasion which , since it started in 1985 , has developed into one of the finest events on the golfing calendar . |
| 28 | Caraway seed cake was one of the staples of the Victorian teatable ; you either adored or hated the taste of the little black seeds . |
| 29 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 30 | Pittenweem was one of the burghs which favoured Alexander , although if it had favoured Anstruther , it would have been three to two . |