Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 2 | Before deciding on making an application , he said , Finland would wait for the results of negotiations under way between the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA , of which Finland was one of the seven members ) and the EC on a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 3 | Later on , for example at the Party Congress of 1907 , the right-wing faction , of which Bernstein was one of the leading members , proposed to approve German colonial expansion on the grounds that this promoted a progressive capitalism and harmonized relationships between classes in Germany . |
| 4 | The cuckoo 's ability to produce eggs that bear a striking resemblance to those of its host is one of the bird 's best known adaptations . |
| 5 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 6 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Although Saunders stresses that the individuals concerned did not gain directly from this , the period of his study was one of major commercial development in the borough . |
| 8 | The total of your bill is one of the expenditures that will then appear on the completion statement that you are about to prepare for your client-buyer. ( b ) Disbursements Disbursements include your expenditures for any searches that you may have done , or planning permissions that you may have had to obtain . |
| 9 | The pictorial composition of your shots is one of those areas where rules have grown up which , though seemingly arbitrary , actually work well in practice . |