Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emphasis on its own policy for research was to be one of the CNAA 's most tangible responses to the development of a public sector of higher education . |
| 2 | Given this overall approach it was clear that the question of the so-called worker-peasant alliance was to be one of the main economic , social and political problems in the period that lay ahead . |
| 3 | But erm sewage was to be one of the things I shall never forget , later on . |
| 4 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 5 | This theory was to be one of the central beliefs of Stukeley 's historical and religious philosophy . |
| 6 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |