Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [be] one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He started with just 4 lambs , and one of the ewes that drowned was one of those original lambs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 7 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |