Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture . |
| 2 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 3 | ‘ We never dreamt for one moment it was the woman next door , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts . |
| 5 | On the one hand there was the assembly or Ecclesia which every citizen was entitled to attend , and which took the final decisions about policy . |
| 6 | The vast block of land over which the Merovingians ruled was essentially treated as two different units ; on the one hand there was the north and the east , that is the territories which had been controlled by the Franks before the " Vouillé " campaign , together with the Burgundian kingdom ; on the other there was Provence and the lands captured from the Visigoths . |
| 7 | He blames the current problems on a lack of clear leadership , leading to a policy dilemma : ‘ On the one hand there was the desire to concentrate on the museum 's own collections , and on the other there was the attempt to become part of the dynamic international art scene ’ . |
| 8 | On the one hand there was the need to allow individual divergences from the hierarchy and to leave teachers some freedom to make their own contribution to the curriculum — a goal often repeated by all Secretaries of State as they sought to limit that freedom . |
| 9 | At one time it was the law that rape is committed only where the woman submits through force , fear , or fraud . |
| 10 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 11 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 12 | At one time it was the Swanage headquarters of the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters . |