Example sentences of "[vb past] be one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 2 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 3 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 4 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 5 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 6 | In fact , he 'd been one of two warders who had escorted Derek Bentley from the condemned cell to the hangman on January 281953 . |
| 7 | She 'd been one of the few sober people at Dave 's , in spite of the home-brewed beer . |
| 8 | Having to rise first for the privacy that afforded was one of the penalties of living in a two-roomed house where the kitchen also doubled as a bedroom . |
| 9 | There were many other people around from every age-group , yet the overall impression she received was one of unhurried leisure . |
| 10 | Two other victims , James McKenna ( 52 ) from Maghera and 25-year-old James Kelly who the IRA claimed was one of its members , were also being buried today . |
| 11 | When he was in Rome , when Jo was off somewhere , he enjoyed being one of the helpers . |
| 12 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 13 | The scene that followed was one of the most dramatic in the history of warfare and destined to live , like the defence of Derry , in Irish Protestant annals . |
| 14 | The action that followed was one of the most bizarre that sailing-ships ever fought , for it took place in a November gale that might well have put the whole of both fleets on to the rocks , but it was a complete defeat for the French who lost nine ships while the British lost only two . |
| 15 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 16 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 17 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 18 | We are deliberately led on towards what Eliot knew was one of the phenomena found most universally in religions ranging from the most primitive to the most developed : thunder . |
| 19 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 20 | The nobility of the ancien régime from which twentieth-century Europeans emerged was one of deeply entrenched attitudes which were often hardly made explicit — because they did not need to be . |
| 21 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 22 | Although in fact they accepted all three Beveridge ‘ assumptions ’ on behalf of the coalition government , the impression they gave was one of hesitancy and caution ; and the result was that the Parliamentary Labour Party , for the one and only time during the coalition years , decided to put down an amendment to the government motion and thus divide the House . |
| 23 | He started with just 4 lambs , and one of the ewes that drowned was one of those original lambs . |
| 24 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 25 | Martin had been one of the post-war most-likely-to-succeed Oxbridge brigade . |
| 26 | All his adult life , Dignam had been one of the most involved defenders of the rights of actors . |
| 27 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |