Example sentences of "one [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His one weakness was the lack of patience he showed with people he considered idiots . |
| 2 | In France , one landmark was the election of the mathematician S. D. Poisson to the Académe des Sciences in 1812 , in a ‘ physics ’ position . |
| 3 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 4 | On the one side was the pain and a great big black hole into which he wanted to sink — it was so restful down there — and on the other there were the surgeon , the nurses and his wife Marlene talking to him constantly , trying to get him to react , to fight back . |
| 5 | One side was the Matterhorn , pink in the early morning light ; on the other the sharp pinnacle of the Rothorn ; and beyond one of the most beautiful mountains on the world : the Weisshorn . |
| 6 | On one side was the fast-running river , on the other was the dark hillside . |
| 7 | At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats , all covered in purple or gold cloth . |
| 8 | One result was the triumphant expansion of some charitable organizations , which rejoiced both at their new-found importance and at the Government 's munificence . |
| 9 | One result was the virtual end of the traffic in stolen cattle between the Southern and Western Provinces . |
| 10 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 11 | One village was the birthplace of Ibn Toumert , creator of an early Berber dynasty which founded Tin Mal and then Marrakech , to end with an empire stretching from the Sahara to half way up Sapin . |
| 12 | Rostov thought that probably this one question was the reason for his summons to Kinsai . |
| 13 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 14 | The virtues of this procedure , which does n't lengthen but in fact shortens your investigation , are as follows : ( a ) The actual investigation is simplified , as you do n't have to keep turning back an unwieldy abstract to see which documents contained restrictions , whether the seller named in one conveyance was the buyer named in the previous deed , etc . |
| 15 | Four goals , one sending off and one booking was the story of this match as Abingdon Town drew two two with Harefield United . |
| 16 | One consequence was the downgrading of ‘ political news ’ . |
| 17 | One outcome was the intense exploitation of labour-forces , ultimately leading to the destruction of the resource on which they were dependent : labour power . |
| 18 | One outcome was the appointment of directors of quality assurance , largely from the ranks of displaced nurse managers . |
| 19 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 20 | One development was the Military Reconnaissance Force , or MRF . |
| 21 | One night was the most he could expect to remain hidden . |
| 22 | One speciality was the measurement of high-speed events , such as explosions and gunshots , using his tram chronograph , invented in 1888 . |
| 23 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 24 | At one extreme was the highly capitalized and specialized agricultural industry of Denmark , and at the other the huge latifundia of Andalusia or south Italy , with their poverty-stricken swarms of landless peasants working for day wages when they could . |
| 25 | The problem , neatly summarized by Blackaby ( 1980 ) , was that Britain 's collective bargaining structure lay betwixt and between two polar extremes : at one extreme was the highly centralized system which was prevalent in some countries of continental Europe ; at the other extreme was the model of atomistic competition in labour markets which appeared to feature only in textbooks . |
| 26 | One example was the decision not to destroy the ruins of the German cathedral , where Kant is buried . |
| 27 | One example was the development of the Liberty ship , a slow-moving but easily constructed freighter which in 1941 took 355 days to build . |
| 28 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 29 | Winning the Formula One championship was the fulfilment of a childhood dream , but now , he says , victory in Indycar 's famous Indianapolis 500 would top that . |
| 30 | On the one hand was the development of the French state , its administration , its budget , its army , together with its emphasis upon the attributes of monarchy . |