Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state and defence departments said airdrops were one of a range of options being studied by a task force of US government officials . |
| 2 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 3 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 4 | If you were one of the killers … ’ |
| 5 | Unconverted barns were one of the success stories of the property boom years , with near-ruins selling for fantastic sums . |
| 6 | ‘ Although when they first walked in and found you out cold on the floor , they thought you were one of the gang too ! |
| 7 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 8 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 9 | wonderful wonderful last Easter weekend back from Glasgow we were warned there was gon na be delays and we were fortunate we were one of the groups who came back fairly early . |
| 10 | The Anarchists were one of the groups they moved against . |
| 11 | Former Cavern DJ Bob Wooler recalls : ‘ The Dennisons were one of the groups who deserved to make it really big . |
| 12 | They were one of the reasons we moved to St. Albans . |
| 13 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 14 | When Ivy and Margaret had gone to get their gas masks in 1939 ‘ the girl ’ had asked Margaret if she were one of the heroines of An Adventure . |
| 15 | 2 as if you were one of the Spiggies . |
| 16 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 17 | Here we find the ring of truth because if you were one of the disciples and Jesus had appeared to you , what would you have told your friends ? |
| 18 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 19 | Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973 . |
| 20 | The antics of the children as they scrambled and tried to pick up the coins were one of the highlights of the day . |
| 21 | It was always difficult — sometimes impossible — to get an appointment with the head of the agency 's Milan office , or , at least , it was like that if you were one of the agency 's models . |
| 22 | Either Choose one of these and tell the whole story of what happened — as if you were one of the people in the story . |
| 23 | I could share things with you , I could , you know , the dreams , the ideas , you were one of the people who understood what I was talking about . |
| 24 | NUMEROSO : Perhaps he will , but if I were one of the people coming to live here I 'd want some kind of security I think … or would I ? |
| 25 | As you will know , because we were one of the finalists last year , we ca n't get into the finals of Britain in Bloom this year , nor can we win an award as a ‘ first time entry ’ in the Best Kept Village competition . |
| 26 | However , rather than seeing this as an excuse for living as they pleased , the Calvinists believed that success in work and in trade was a sign that they were one of the elect rather than one of the damned . |
| 27 | Mr Brooke said the summer 's inter-party discussions were not peace talks as such , but they were one of the pressures that could be mounted on the terrorists . |
| 28 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
| 29 | Fine … if we were one of the sports who take ‘ Gate Money ’ and have a following of spectators who supply an income but as you are aware this is not ‘ US ’ . |
| 30 | The high costs were one of the justifications for the creation of a Government Working Party on Woonerven in 1984 , with a brief to assess the operation of Woonerven some seven years after the first legislation . |