Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's partly because we 're one of Britain 's biggest building societies . |
| 2 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |
| 3 | You 're one of life 's sowers , Andrew . ’ |
| 4 | The Bill will be a special one in that the political parties are allowing their members in both Houses a free vote because the issue is deemed to be one of conscience . |
| 5 | But it was because Aaron said a mildly humorous comment about somebody in one of Whit 's photos who turned out to be one of Whit 's very good friends . |
| 6 | Alternatively , parties may be dominated more by individuals than by issues , and the process may be one of competition for political leadership ( Schumpeter , 1954 ) . |
| 7 | Where the 80s economy was one of bust-boom-bust , the 90s economy would be one of stability . |
| 8 | This image might be one of reliability and technical competence , of innovation or sensitivity to customer needs ( etc ) . |
| 9 | One of them , Peter Cornwell , later published a sunlit retrospect of what it was like to be one of Ebor 's ordinands , and how he valued the privilege that the bishop who ordained him was a thinker , as he put it , so profound . |
| 10 | In Los Angeles , another place where non-Hispanic whites are a dwindling minority , a 62-year-old white businessman is in a run-off for the mayor 's office against the young Asian-American who has for years been thought to be one of California 's most personable Democrats . |
| 11 | Reviving investment will be one of America 's biggest challenges in the next few years . |
| 12 | The difference could be one of life or death . |
| 13 | Supremely happy not to be one of life 's ‘ practical men ’ . |
| 14 | Yet most people would agree that the fax machine has got to be one of life 's easier contraptions to master . |
| 15 | He 'd never exactly believed that his life was charmed youngest in a family of seven in Stoke Newington would have been a damned strange place to start out from if that had been the case — but he 'd never believed himself to be one of life 's victims either . |
| 16 | Paul worked it out that she must be one of Dr Heatherton 's daughters by his first marriage . |
| 17 | The charge against Carter should be one of manslaughter . |
| 18 | We found that neither in theory nor in practice need the net effect be one of disincentive . |
| 19 | Generalizations about the state of the towns in late medieval England are , however , risky ; each had its own history , which might be very different from that of its neighbour , and it is likely that even when more individual studies have been made of particular towns the general picture will be one of diversity rather than of similarity . |
| 20 | HAMMERSMITH in west London , home of some all too visible faceless architecture , has been chosen as the site of what promises to be one of Britain 's most remarkable buildings , an enormous office block designed on natural lines by the Royal Gold Medallist Ralph Erskine , Jonathan Glancey writes . |
| 21 | The popularity of the area , which attracts some 2000 hired boats and 3000 private craft in the summer months ( Crawford 1985 ) , is gradually causing the impoverishment of what is generally considered to be one of Britain 's most attractive wetland areas . |
| 22 | If one were to suggest to an electronics engineer that he might want to study how a circuit works by pulling bits out and observing changes in function his reaction would probably be one of horror ! |
| 23 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 24 | Yet for all that he no longer believed the creed in which he had been raised : for all that he fought for a king against an upstart general , for the old order against the new , Karelius recognized that at heart he would always be one of Cromwell 's men . |
| 25 | The first is that there may well be disagreement as to whether , on analytical grounds , a question should be deemed to be one of law or fact . |
| 26 | Thus some courts have reasoned on the hypothesis that if an issue is deemed to be one of law then this must inevitably involve substitution of judgment on their part . |
| 27 | This must be one of Paul 's tapes . |
| 28 | The goal on which we would all agree , I suggest , would be one of fairness , whereby resources are distributed and technology applied in the right way . |
| 29 | If damage to its structure is bad enough to warrant demolition , its destruction would be one of London 's worst losses since the Second World War . |
| 30 | Biggles — we named him that because of his flying , or should I say crashing , antics — had the misfortune to be one of Barny 's babies . |