Example sentences of "been one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the reaction has been one of slight stuttering , saying ‘ Er , erm , … well … |
| 2 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 4 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 5 | Martin had been one of the post-war most-likely-to-succeed Oxbridge brigade . |
| 6 | While Senna 's steady but swift progress made his 20th Grand Prix victory look easy , the reigning world champion says this race has been one of the toughest . |
| 7 | He has been one of the Legislative Council 's most diligent members , a demanding enough job ; he accepted China 's offer of a seat on the Basic Law Drafting Committee , helping to write Hong Kong 's post-1997 mini-constitution , and was embroiled in more unsuccessful arguments for direct elections , opposed by mainland communists and Hong Kong conservatives . |
| 8 | Every one of the scores of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs which clog the streets around the embassy has been one of the most cherished possessions in its owner 's life . |
| 9 | He is believed to have been one of two armed men who last month hijacked a police car , prompting a manhunt over three Irish counties . |
| 10 | All his adult life , Dignam had been one of the most involved defenders of the rights of actors . |
| 11 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
| 12 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 13 | The story has then been one of the dynamic interaction of politics and economics , with political change affecting the economy — so far mainly for the worse — and economic crisis sharpening the political struggle . |
| 14 | In Blackpool the strongest feeling among representatives has been one of relief that the party sang in harmony under stress . |
| 15 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 16 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 17 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 18 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 19 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 20 | There is truth in that , also in the proposition that in Western culture the ‘ tragic vision ’ has been one of the most powerful means of containing and sublimating desire . |
| 21 | On Europe the pattern has been one of resistance to proposals but , in the end , accepting compromise . |
| 22 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 23 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 24 | Fibres had been one of ICI 's big money spinners , but by the time Haslam joined the division nylon was already making a loss and polyester was about to collapse , having been a ‘ jewel in the crown ’ . |
| 25 | The last was Paul Biya who between 1973 and 1979 , as minister responsible for the economy , had been one of the chief architects of Cameroun 's successful development strategy . |
| 26 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 27 | This is a scaled-down version of Blaggdon , and has always been one of my early-season pilgrimages . |
| 28 | Indeed the conclusion that such diverse aspects of society as religion , kinship , politics , and economics form a linked whole has been one of the touchstones of modern anthropology . |
| 29 | In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms . |
| 30 | The previous day had been one of frantic activity . |