Example sentences of "one 's [noun sg] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on favours for a substantial part of one 's livelihood was the vulnerability which Mary Leapor was reluctant to assume . |
| 2 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 3 | A sententious , self-righteous approach as the artist-legislator spoke a mixture of scorn and complacency that most politicians know how to avoid , suggested that keeping Mr Kureishi off one 's bandwagon was the beginning of wisdom . |
| 4 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 5 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |