Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 2 | The state and defence departments said airdrops were one of a range of options being studied by a task force of US government officials . |
| 3 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 4 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 5 | They were one of the biggest flops in educational history . |
| 6 | Finshing third , provided they were one of the four successful stragglers , would leave England to play the winners of Group D , West Germany 's group , in Milan or Group C , probably Brazil , in Turin . |
| 7 | Here we find the ring of truth because if you were one of the disciples and Jesus had appeared to you , what would you have told your friends ? |
| 8 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 9 | I talked to about 30 or 40 people who knew him pretty well , and they all thought that they were one of the most important people in his life . |
| 10 | They were on Alida 's face and Alida felt a chill and shifted in her chair , as though Miss Cress , in her navy uniform and bib , were one of the old headmistresses . |
| 11 | Like the other European countries visited , farm co-operatives were one of the main strengths of the farmers . |
| 12 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 13 | The trilobites were one of the dominant forms of marine life in the Lower Palaeozoic , known from thousands of different species and found in every continent . |
| 14 | Yet the haplochromines were one of the biological wonders of the world : for within that single lake , they had diversified into 300 different species . |
| 15 | The Caskies , including Faith , were one of the five . |
| 16 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 17 | Indeed , the Abu Khadras were one of the largest families in Palestine , their orchards and property scattered between Jaffa , Jerusalem and Gaza . |
| 18 | Harold could hardly point out that good curtains and carpets were one of the basic requirements for soft living , and an ample income another , to supply other amenities including first-rate domestic help . |
| 19 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 20 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 21 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 22 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 23 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 24 | Glass membrane potentiometric electrodes were one of the first to be used as part of enzyme electrodes , typically for monitoring of pH in hydrolase catalysed reactions — eg urea assays . |
| 25 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 26 | The Carthaginians were one of the first to set the trend when they founded Ibiza in 654 BC . |
| 27 | ‘ You realise that you were one of the last people to see Dr Wetherby alive ? ’ |
| 28 | The high costs were one of the justifications for the creation of a Government Working Party on Woonerven in 1984 , with a brief to assess the operation of Woonerven some seven years after the first legislation . |
| 29 | Throughout that decade Vox were one of the few British guitar ‘ names ’ , and certain models from that era have become much sought-after by collectors . |
| 30 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |