Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 3 | Having to rise first for the privacy that afforded was one of the penalties of living in a two-roomed house where the kitchen also doubled as a bedroom . |
| 4 | The scene that followed was one of the most dramatic in the history of warfare and destined to live , like the defence of Derry , in Irish Protestant annals . |
| 5 | The action that followed was one of the most bizarre that sailing-ships ever fought , for it took place in a November gale that might well have put the whole of both fleets on to the rocks , but it was a complete defeat for the French who lost nine ships while the British lost only two . |
| 6 | The picture that emerges is one of a fluid matrix of bilayer lipid in , or upon , which proteins and glycoproteins are located ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , only 29 per cent of farmers had actually altered field boundaries between 1949 and 1 978 , and only one-third had reclaimed moorland in the last 7 to 1 5 years , and so the picture that emerges is one of a more dynamic profit-motivated minority replacing a more conservation and landscape-orientated majority where still 56 per cent of farmers are over 50 . |
| 8 | He started with just 4 lambs , and one of the ewes that drowned was one of those original lambs . |
| 9 | Anxious that Lally should not return to find her naked , she huddled into a blue satin kimono that had been one of Aunt Tossie 's many over-grand presents . |
| 10 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 11 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 12 | Ad quodraturn is basically one square laid over another at an angle of 45 degrees , and has been one of the commonest systems employed throughout the world . |
| 13 | It has been an outstanding success , and has been one of the most far reaching reforms ever carried out in Scottish Education . ’ |
| 14 | The ILEA had made a commitment to schools/industry curriculum development and had been one of the five pilot authorities in the first phase of the Schools Council Industry Project , now the Schools Curriculum Industry Partnership ( SCIP ) . |
| 15 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 16 | The 13th century Dolgellau chalice and paten is one of the finest pieces of British medieval metalwork . |
| 17 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 18 | ‘ Nobody wants to get old , but ageing is one of those things that 's going to happen and I 'm just going to let it . |
| 19 | Feeding and nutrition of horses is one of the few areas where independent specialist advice is quite difficult to find even though feeding is one of the most important aspects of horse management . |