Example sentences of "and [pron] be [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people like committees and organising , others do n't , and I am one of the latter . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , he had a lot of very strong , incredibly positive influences on many artists , and I am one of those artists , although I never exchanged two words with him . |
| 3 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 4 | On a much more parochial level and I er I have an interest and I am one of these old age pensions that Mr is determined to look after . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah yes , when it comes to that , Violette and I are two of a kind , ’ he said with mock mournfulness . |
| 6 | Technology is a wonderful thing and I 'm one of its greatest fans . |
| 7 | There 's only two members of staff who are paid monthly by cheque and I 'm one of them . |
| 8 | Not a party , I suppose , but she and Bill are having some people over tomorrow evening , and I 'm one of them . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | Dennis Lloyd and I were two of them , and the third was Desmond ( now Lord ) Plummer , who was an estate agent and surveyor and an expert on rent restriction . |
| 11 | Most young readers , and I was one of them , were bored by the seeming ponderousness of so much of the narration and probably gave up too soon to grasp the understanding of the American Indian mind it offers and the rapport that can be achieved with an understanding white man , here the legendary ‘ Hawkeye ’ . |
| 12 | I 'll die happy to know when I was young I was pushing ideas and I was one of the actors saving my country for my grandchildren and all Peruvians . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 14 | ALL THOSE who doubted , and I was one of them , the existence of the exploding rats , find themselves confounded . |
| 15 | And I was one of them . |
| 16 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 17 | ‘ And I was one of those who did , ’ he says , lighting the J with his Zippo . |
| 18 | And er it was very reg a regular come territorial battalion , and I was one of five foreigners from up country , erm you thought yourself as er an absolute native in grass skirts , waving a machete , or something . |
| 19 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 20 | Many were shot in the back as they ran , and I was one of the few who reached the trench we had started from unhurt — alive , even . |
| 21 | I come off that plane at Gatwick and I was one of the luckiest fellas to be in the called Cohen . |
| 22 | Wallenstein 's patronage of the arts extended to gardens , and his is one of the most important Baroque gardens in Prague . |
| 23 | And their are seven of them in in the |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't that what life 's all about ? ’ says Steve , ‘ you 're born and you die at 75 and you 're one of millions of people who no-one 's going to remember . |
| 25 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 26 | He goes , do you know what one of them is , he goes , it 's just sort of like evolutionary thing between the ape and man , and he goes , it 's sort of part way between , and it 's sort of like some sort of creature , and it 's half like an ape and half like a human , and he goes , and you 're one of them he goes , you 're one of them Gran , he goes , you 've got a brain like one of them , as well , and Gran just like went oh shut up Ryan . |
| 27 | It was torture and you were one of those who suffered most . |
| 28 | If your town was cabled and you were one of 80,000 house-holders who paid a subscription , you could get a variety of extra specialized channels such as sport and movies . |
| 29 | The other was ‘ The man in the Manse ’ , by the Rev. Ronald Blakey , who is to succeed david Miller as Secretary to the Assembly Council , and who is one of several at ‘ 121 ’ who gives his help with Christian Aid . |
| 30 | The list of people buried here is long and includes Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( Rabbi Loew d.1609 ) , a philosopher who was interested in the supernatural in traditional Jewish teaching , and whose notorious golem or artificially created servant , was said to lie in pieces in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue ; David Gans , the first Jewish historian to write a history of the gentiles which was published in Prague in 1592 ; Josef Salomo ben Elias del Medigo de Candia ( the Wandering Jew ) , who was born in Crete , studied at Palermo , was a pupil of Galileo , and finally practised medicine everywhere from Cairo to Prague ; Mardochee who founded a most important printing press in Prague and who was one of the founders of the Brotherhood of the Dead who until this century kept vigil at the cemetery . |