Example sentences of "he was one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of 25 farmers arrested in November 1987 and accused of membership of the New People 's Army ( NPA ) , the armed wing of the outlawed Communist Party . |
| 2 | He did not take sides against Abstraction , even though he was one of the organisers of a Surrealist exhibition in London in 1937 . |
| 3 | He was one of six chosen from a brigade of 40 to accompany Quinn when he then left to work at Ettington Park , Staffordshire . |
| 4 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 5 | For him it was a matter of great moment , for he was one of those artists who hold that the energy of artistic creation is itself erotic , indeed ( in his most extreme formulations ) positively genital . |
| 6 | Tixier-Vignancour emerged from this period of enforced reflection with a deep loathing for General de Gaulle and when he returned to politics in 1955 he was one of the architects of the revival of the extreme right , using the popular cause of ‘ Algerie Francaise ’ as a rallying point . |
| 7 | He made no secret of his Francophile enthusiasms , in reaction to the earlier domination of American music by Germans , and he was one of the first writers to register the importance of jazz . |
| 8 | He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters ' Guild in 1933 . |
| 9 | He was one of 60 security guards at the weekend party in a field near Reigate . |
| 10 | With no real power-base of his own , he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace . |
| 11 | Yardley was proud that he was one of the few bowlers who could claim to have dismissed Bradman three times in Tests . |
| 12 | He was one of the army of young idealists who believed that ‘ scientific socialism ’ held all the answers for their war-ravaged country . |
| 13 | AS A FILM-MAKER , Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was only a minor member of the nouvelle vague but by virtue of being — with Andre Bazin — the founder and editor of Cahiers du Cinema he was one of the driving forces behind the movement . |
| 14 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 15 | He was one of the 159 delegates out of 1,202 who voted on Saturday against the name change . |
| 16 | In July he was one of 80 troops attacked by about 400 Khmer Rouge in Kompong Thom . |
| 17 | He was one of the three judges of the league 's annual £1,000 Runciman Award for a book about Greece . |
| 18 | He was one of those relatively few actors — Ian McKellen and Simon Callow are others — who somehow boost the confidence of regular theatregoers by taking the opportunity of a free evening to watch fellow actors at work . |
| 19 | He was one of my friends of the French Commando who were attached to No. 4 Commando . |
| 20 | He assumed that this could only be because he was one of the possibles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 23 | Been different if he was one of your upper crust . |
| 24 | He was one of those men of whom the historian Edward Gibbon , who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , reported their disgusting activities ‘ in the decent obscurity of a learned language . ’ |
| 25 | He was one of the shyest people in the world . |
| 26 | Even Oscar Wilde called it charming — granted he was one of history 's great gossipers , but he was an even greater gossipee . |
| 27 | He was one of three men who ‘ wanted to get feminists ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |