Example sentences of "[subord] he be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although he is one of the Irish gang , Flood will not enter fully into union business , yet nor will he sever himself from it . |
| 6 | Although he is one of the most interesting experimental writers on the contemporary American scene , Wurlitzer 's novels are not particularly humorous and this would distinguish his works from those of Sukenick , Federman , and Pynchon . |
| 7 | His international appearances were restricted by injury and suspensions ; although he was one of Scotland 's top players for years , his longest run in the national team was only four matches , and he was actually dropped from a game against England for ‘ not being mentally attuned ’ after he refused to act as a makeshift linesman in a practice match . |
| 8 | Although he was one of her guests , Lady Blemley did not know Mr Appin well . |
| 9 | Although he was one of the prime movers in having the forest cut down and enclosed , Putt 's come out of it badly . |
| 10 | Praeiectus , however , although he was one of the five , began to have second thoughts , because of a vision which his mother had had , forecasting a great ecclesiastical career . |
| 11 | Although he was one of her most enthusiastic supporters , Mrs Thatcher often found he was more of a liability than an asset . |
| 12 | He 's actually not nine till August so he 's one of the young ones in the class |
| 13 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 14 | If he does n't understand — if he 's one of the people who says " lf-you-really-loved-me-you'd-love-my-failure-too " — this could be the finish of us . |
| 15 | The former Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier , bronze medallist in the World Student Games last year , will make the trip to Barcelona if he is one of the top three British scorers beyond the qualifying standard . |
| 16 | Been different if he was one of your upper crust . |
| 17 | If he was one of them , that 's why they were hurrying back to London , so Gloria could say goodbye before he was put on a ship and Dot would n't ever have to see him again . |
| 18 | Well in fact it I would be very surprised A if he was one of ours and B if he was successful . |
| 19 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 20 | She was teasing him as if he were one of the little ones but he did n't mind because she was looking happy again . |
| 21 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 22 | The new editor of The Sunday Telegraph , Trevor Grove , was appointed because he is one of Max Hastings 's closest colleagues , and can mobilise these resources . |
| 23 | Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places . |
| 24 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 25 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 26 | Gen Schwanitz 's appeal , however , is unlikely to work because he was one of the deputies of Mr Erich Mielke , the now disgraced former minister for state security . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope you 're not going to write anything nasty about Tim , because he was one of life 's sweeties , really . ’ |
| 28 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 29 | He must have become a fairly senior member of his own company , since he was one of the receiving trustees of Painter-Stainers ' Hall in 1580 , and one of those releasing the hall to others in 1605 . |
| 30 | But before he was one of my best pupils … ’ |