Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the last century , trade unionism had already declared that ‘ scarcity of labour was one of the fundamental principles ’ , that the way to make labour dearer was to restrict the supply of it . |
| 2 | Lord Ross said that the sheriff had failed to attach proper importance to the fact that an allegation of murder was one of the most serious which could ever be made against any individual . |
| 3 | The Chartered Institute of Transport was one of the bodies consulted by DPTAC before the recommendations on education and training were drawn up . |
| 4 | German war records rescued after the last war showed that Hitler 's use of astrology was one of the major causes for his demise . |
| 5 | Homage was not concerned with spiritual functions : it was concerned only with the tenure of land , and the act of homage was one of the main foundations of social organization . |
| 6 | The opportunity to maintain their freedom of referral was one of the commonest reasons given by general practitioners for joining the fundholding scheme . |
| 7 | The apathy of the people towards unemployment was one of the things that caused so little notice to be taken of it . |
| 8 | Ease of travel Was one of the benefits brought by an empire as large and stable as the Persian , which after the conquests of Cyrus , Kambyses and Darius I in the second half of the sixth century extended from Thrace to modern Afghanistan and from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Third Cataract of the Nile . |
| 9 | The explosion of mathematics was one of the most striking aspects of the nineteenth century ; and frequently new mathematics has turned out , as Galileo had hoped , to be the language of nature , providing a key or a model for the understanding of phenomena . |
| 10 | L 288 , p. 1 ) , in conjunction with the thirteenth recital in the Preamble thereto , from which it appeared that the principle of non-discrimination was one of the ‘ minimum requirements ’ laid down by Community law in that field . |
| 11 | It was qualified by the extent that financial gains found their way back into land , and by the role that stock holding played in providing a source of secure income for pensioners , widows and orphans ( the Court of Chancery was one of the largest holders ) . |
| 12 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 13 | Keeping their heads well above water was one of the teams in the Flogas Raft Row in aid of Mencap and the Northern Ireland Hospice . |
| 14 | Finally , the UK contingent were adamant that transsexuality was not acceptable , and this really created a lot of bad feeling , as the transsexual in question was one of the main organisers of the campaign . |
| 15 | ( The union in question was one of the unskilled unions in the NPKTF , a point developed below . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This sort of dispassionate investigation of the nature of simple , solid forms in space was one of the starting-points of the Cubism of both Picasso and Braque . |
| 18 | The fact that just on half saw increased income to their business as a benefit from training was one of the best advertisements for the courses . |
| 19 | THE DEATH of two pet dogs from cancer was one of the factors which convinced a family they had to leave their home near the Sellafield nuclear processing plant in Cumbria , a High Court judge was told yesterday . |
| 20 | This in fact was one of the driving forces behind the development of activity-based costing — the labour-hour basis was no longer applicable . |
| 21 | The idea of the organization of peoples according to descent was one of the most common in the past . |
| 22 | She had instructed the maids not to disturb her for she valued her privacy and having staff constantly on hand was one of the things she had found most difficult to become accustomed to . |
| 23 | The plan 's other goals included : ( i ) growth in agricultural output averaging 3.2 per cent ; ( ii ) an increase in the national savings rate from 12.4 per cent to 16 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) a rise in government tax revenue from 8.5 per cent to 10.5 per cent of GDP and a cut in the budget deficit from 2 per cent to 1 per cent of GDP ; and ( iv ) a cut in the population growth rate which at 2.1 per cent per year was one of the highest in Asia . |
| 24 | As we have seen , his view of the transition to socialism was one of the breakdown of the fundamental equilibrium of capitalism and the creation of a new equilibrium by the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat . |
| 25 | Although gold was also sought for bullion and diamonds for industrial use , the expansion of the market for jewellery was one of the strongest impulses behind the booms in prospection and mining of the latter nineteenth and the twentieth centuries . |
| 26 | I have stressed this aspect of Roman social life , because it appears from the surviving literary and archaeological evidence that the entertainment of friends at home was one of the greatest pleasures during the Empire . |
| 27 | Whenever oligarchy took over from democracy , pay for office was one of the first things to be abolished . |