Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been one of the shortest epics on record — just seven minutes — but you wo n't hear any Armagh supporters claiming they were short-changed ! |
| 2 | As oral amiodarone had no adverse effect on the liver function in our patient , we suggest that it may have been one of the other constituents of the intravenous solution which was responsible for the hepatotoxicity . |
| 3 | And all that in one week , it must have been one of Madame 's special amateur talent weeks I suppose . |
| 4 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 5 | ‘ The horrifying thing is the thought that it must have been one of us that did it . ’ |
| 6 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 7 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 8 | It must have been one of the old medieval roads into the city , now dosed to traffic by the concrete retaining wall of the ring boulevard . |
| 9 | I was born in one of the semi-detached , but I do n't know which one it was , it must have been one of the |
| 10 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 11 | Tax erm I ca n't remember where it was that , I think it might have been one of you saying that how that a peasant of subsistence level erm would still have to pay eighteen percent of its income |
| 12 | If their sales had been included , it would have been one of the few wholly independent records to reach the Top 40 . |
| 13 | The first engine rolled out of the Springfield sheds on November 4 1902 , and it would have been one of the last to use the level crossing at Thompson Street because very soon the council seem to have ordered Stivvies to replace it with a bridge . |
| 14 | It will have been one of the most comprehensively designed and tested lifeboats to have been built anywhere in the world . |