Example sentences of "was [verb] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 2 | In addition , I was to attend one of the national radiation protection study days and receive certification . |
| 3 | Next day , in her usual riding class , Evelyn was given one of the beginners ' ponies to ride ; not because she had become ‘ big-headed ’ over night , but because her instructor had spotted one weakness in her riding . |
| 4 | The other architects to be awarded prizes for Second Empire designs on the War Department list were Botrel d'Hazeville , whose grand scheme resembling the Louvre was given second place ; John Thomas Rochead , whose design united the two offices in an ornate single building with high-roofed corner pavilions , was awarded third place ; the brothers , Edward and William Habershon , whose scheme for one large building with prominent central and corner pavilions and mansard roofs , around a central quadrangle , was given one of the fifth equal places ; along with John Dwyer , whose treatment was very similar to Rochead 's , but less ornate . |
| 5 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 6 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 7 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 8 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 9 | By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , the Gloucester was deemed one of the country 's better dairy cows and a useful draught ox . |
| 10 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 11 | … The food was delicious , the drink unlimited ; and in spite of the dated dance records and battered furniture , the flat was considered one of the smartest places to be seen in Cairo . |
| 12 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 13 | The chart ( Example 53 ) was considered one of the simplest in presentation . |
| 14 | Christianity continued the penitential tradition and the ‘ grace of tears ’ was considered one of the chief gifts offered to the penitent . |
| 15 | The task of reconciling the various movements and factions was considered one of the most difficult he would face in the months ahead . |
| 16 | Rather than being the workshop of the world , Britain was becoming one of the world 's secretarial colleges , with priority given to non-manual clerical and service occupation . |
| 17 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 18 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 19 | It was felt one of the reasons for doing the video originally , was that if we had the film of the lesson we 'd all have a common ground , did n't matter whose lesson it was . |
| 20 | He was named one of the managers of the Belfast Academical Institution in 1810 . |
| 21 | Soon after his return to England , he was made one of the three commissioners of the Privy Seal , a post he held until the appointment of Arthur Annesley , first Earl of Anglesey [ q.v. ] , as lord privy seal in 1673 superseded the commission . |
| 22 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 23 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 24 | The process of competition stretched the finite resources of the BBC and was to highlight one of the major differences between the two organizations . |
| 25 | I was testing one of the new Telex ANR noise-reducing headsets during this flight , making the Aircoupe eerily quiet — almost like being inside a cathedral . |
| 26 | She was wearing one of the Rabbit 's white gloves . |
| 27 | Richard Coburn was wearing one of the T-shirts the day police arrested him . |
| 28 | The only way was to persuade one of the Met Officers to take over the observations and chart plotting for the day , and then we would all be back for the night duty . |
| 29 | Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement . |
| 30 | Cy McCray was riding one of the joint favourites and , somewhat to her surprise , Harry Short had retained Damien Gould to ride Heraldic , a three-year-old with negligible form . |