Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] be one " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that local needs heading is one heading , the other heading which I think would be unavoidable is erm on migration . |
| 2 | ‘ The picture that has emerged is one of Mr Berry continuing to run Blue Arrow as he had always done despite its transformation to a very substantial international public company . |
| 3 | The picture which has emerged is one of people of the inner city especially the women — living under curfew . |
| 4 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 5 | The coffin of the 25-year-old whom the IRA has admitted was one of its ‘ volunteers ’ was draped in the Irish tricolour with beret and gloves on top . |
| 6 | And the existence and identity it has bestowed is one of constitutive inferiority and deficit . |
| 7 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 8 | Seppings , who used to say ‘ partial strength produces general weakness ’ , seems to have been one of the first Naval Architects to have a clear mental picture of the stress systems in a ship 's hull . |
| 9 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 10 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 11 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 12 | In that historical sequence , some organisms , such as humans , have appeared only very recently , and their past ancestry seems to have been one of rapid and quite dramatic change . |
| 13 | Bernard seems to have been one of those who swore that Pippin would come . |
| 14 | Lincoln , which on several occasions was totally exempted from paying , seems to have been one of the worst affected ( 71 ; 77 , pp.272–3 ) . |
| 15 | Johnson 's had been one of the greatest track and field performances of all time . |