Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 2 | It is now funded by the health authority under the normal joint finance arrangements and there have been one or two local disputes which I 'll come back to later on . |
| 3 | All monitors and TV sets give off high levels of electro-magnetic fields at all frequencies and there have been one or two studies that suggest these might be harmful . |
| 4 | He says that there 's a lot of speculation , and there have been one or two arrests , but there 's no evidence of large scale crime . |
| 5 | Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest . |
| 6 | In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables . |
| 7 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 8 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
| 9 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 10 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 11 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 12 | The tapping from the furnace is done by means of tap holes in the side of the furnace and these are plugged with clay and what happens is one of the workers has a lump of clay on the end of a long metal rod . |
| 13 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 14 | But there have been one or two things this year . ’ |
| 15 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 16 | But there has been one major repercussion from Monica 's failures to toe the official line . |
| 17 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |