Example sentences of "have be one [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 2 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 3 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 4 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 5 | If it does not , the human race will have been one of natural selection 's dead ends . |
| 6 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 7 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 8 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 9 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |