Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attended my father 's prep school where I was one of the worst-behaved pupils , constantly talking after lights-out and fooling around in class . |
| 2 | In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section . |
| 3 | It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth . |
| 4 | A quick reminder , many people will know , but a quick reminder and er , if you 've perhaps just come back from holiday yourself , or you 're one of our new listeners , you may not know so I 'll tell you , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call , this very programme , will be breaking new ground at the end of next month . |
| 5 | ‘ He or she is one of very many . |
| 6 | There is much to see and enjoy in town but you could spend all your time walking through the Tatra National Park where there are hundreds of miles of paths and breathtaking views . |
| 7 | There are pitch problems , too , in the Schübler Chorales , where there are one of two moments of insecurity . |
| 8 | Such checks are frequent where there are two on a motor bicycle with ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 9 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 10 | Then , in a twist of genius , Murdoch welded a merger with its arch-rival BSB and , suddenly , where there were two at each other 's throats , there was now only one . |
| 11 | She would play in the dark shed , where there were millions of daddy-long-legs , or stand about watching him while he dug . |
| 12 | as if er , there 's not , if you 've got twenty partners or there 's twenty of you altogether you 're splitting profit twenty ways |
| 13 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 14 | It was the quest for a greater managerial role which took Ian in 1989 to the York based confectionery giant , where he is one of two in-house solicitors . |
| 15 | He felt he was involved in some royal masque , a diversion , a play where he was one of the mummers , blundering around in the dark to the silent laughter of an audience who always stayed in the shadows . |
| 16 | ( In 1840 , he was to devise an improved method of lead separation , applying this at the Roughtongill Mine in the Caldbeck Fells , where he was one of the proprietors . ) |
| 17 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 18 | — far lower than in Germany , where it is 26 per cent. , the United States where it is 33 per cent. , and Japan where it is more than 60 per cent . |
| 19 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 20 | And , or it 's one of the two lifts they had and they 've made it er toylands . |
| 21 | , so the complex number that is the square root , is either two in that pair , minus five , plus three , nine , or it is five minus three , nine , so it 's either that one , or it 's that one , and we can write that down very , very simply because that one and that one are just the opposite sides , but either plus or minus . |
| 22 | ATTENTIVE READERS of this column will know already that I am one of this country 's leading authorities on ‘ celebrology ’ — this is the study of the role of the celebrity in general elections . |
| 23 | I should explain here that I am one of two brothers — and that my elder brother , Leonard , was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy . |
| 24 | ‘ Somebody printed that I am one of the richest women in England . |
| 25 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 26 | With regard to having sympathy for them , I would say to the hon. Gentleman that I am one of them . |
| 27 | My claim to fame nowadays is that I am one of the seven people who did not vote for world peace . |
| 28 | ‘ Were you hoping to find that I am one of those fools who holds tightly to a title with no meaning ? |
| 29 | Not that I 'm one for erm like talking like some people do and wanting this and er you know . |
| 30 | Well , Fred , I do n't mind telling you that the secret is that I 'm one of a noble family . ’ |