Example sentences of "[det] was one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , this was one of the most abused red wines around . |
| 2 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |
| 3 | This was one of the reasons why Bethune-Baker , who thought that everything obscure was woolly , regarded him as useless if not bad for the young . |
| 4 | This was one of the most ragged performances Oxford have given in recent memory with their captain , Smith , responsible for several mistakes . |
| 5 | This was one of the problems tackled at a bumper symposium held in Brighton last month on cosmology , particle physics and astrophysics . |
| 6 | This was one of his three sixes . |
| 7 | This was one of only two occasions Botham tasted victory as England captain , the other being in a one-day game against Australia a year later , and each time he was there at the death . |
| 8 | This was one of the unequivocal statements that aroused in 1913 the ire of the traditionalist clergy of Spain . |
| 9 | This was one of several occasions on which Norman has been beaten by shots sunk from off the green at the decisive moment . |
| 10 | This was one of the overspill places for The Marquee , just down the road . |
| 11 | Baxter believed the Antinomian controversy went to the very roots of the Christian faith and this was one of the main reasons he accepted the offer of an army chaplaincy in order to counter this error . |
| 12 | This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity , although it started life as a corn mill . |
| 13 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 14 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 15 | Leaving the Church of St Nicholas , on your left across the square , you can see a tunnel through a grand palace ( 12/259 ) ; , this was one of the four gates of the Malá Strana . |
| 16 | Eventually , this was one of the reasons which led to its decline in 1971/72 . |
| 17 | This was one of his enduring pieces , Beauty and the Beast . |
| 18 | This was one of them . |
| 19 | Far from it : this was one of her greatest failures . |
| 20 | This was one of the songs Cissie Loftus sang in her impersonation of Vesta Tilley . |
| 21 | This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986–87 . |
| 22 | I looked out of the window for air raid damage but could see none and decided that this was one of the minor Ruhr towns which had not yet been attacked . |
| 23 | He said that this was one of the few buildings to have been built as Government Offices , but was still built ‘ in accordance with the principle of a private residence ’ . |
| 24 | Justinian comes close to saying that this was one of his favourite legal devices . |
| 25 | This was one of the first disc records to be marketed in Britain . |
| 26 | This was one of the highest breeding densities known in the British Isles ( Ratcliffe , 1963 ) . |
| 27 | On hot summer evenings this was one of the most popular watering holes for miles around . |
| 28 | This was one of the unwelcome chores , but it would come in handy this time because the wireless agent had his business in the village of Stone which was a couple of miles beyond Ham where Julie lived . |
| 29 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 30 | Second , this was one of the first commercial recordings to feature the work of the young Wolfgang Sawallisch , at that time conductor of a provincial opera house at Aachen . |