Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALTHOUGH OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY BERNARD , AS ON THIS OCCASION TO DISCUSS BUSINESS PLANS , HER SOLITARY WALKS WERE ONE OF HER MOST REPLENISHING ACTIVITIES AND A VALUABLE SOURCE OF CREATIVE INSPIRATION . |
| 2 | Father Branche was one of my father 's curates , ’ she explained to the rest of the party , and began making introductions . |
| 3 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 4 | The Parrot was one of their more recent acquisitions , and when Huey made them an offer , they took it . |
| 5 | It had been unnecessary , of course , for her to mention that the silver was one of my father 's main responsibilities and one he took great pride in . |
| 6 | Some composers — Beethoven was one of them — had little gift for vocal writing . |
| 7 | As the Gracchan movement showed , there were still Greek thinkers who encouraged social reform : Blossius of Cumae was one of them . |
| 8 | Some people ventured to say that Suor Eusebia was one of them , but as everybody had such a very high regard for her they did not pursue the matter further . |
| 9 | Making a mess was one of his little rebellions against her . |
| 10 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 11 | An occasional girlfriend called Gail was one of them . |
| 12 | ‘ Taking up rugby was one of my better decisions , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 14 | There are certain novelists — and Graham was one of them — who are the popular choice , because their type of novel is easily assimilated . |
| 15 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 16 | This job was one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 17 | Monmousseau £5.99 A blend of Chenin grapes from the Loire this vintage sparkling wine was one of our favourites . |
| 18 | Hartley Coleridge was one of his devoted friends and admirers and said ‘ Of all landscape painters he was the most literal , the most absolute copyist of the objects on his retina . |
| 19 | Mari Marcel Thekaekara was one of them — she finds the ‘ development professionals ’ of the Eighties with their five-star expense accounts decidedly difficult to take . |
| 20 | Your friend Kenny was one of my messages , except that Nevil here did that one . |
| 21 | The worry which most perturbed Winnie was one of which she was deeply ashamed . |
| 22 | And when he had his ninth birthday party last July , Michael Jackson was one of his guests . |
| 23 | It gave rise to the term ‘ slide-rule strategy ’ and Williams was one of its foremost creators . |
| 24 | He sometimes took his turn to conduct services in sign language , for the Bible was one of his favourite books for reading . |
| 25 | I assumed that Rimbo was one of our friends from the developing world , like Fenton Akimbo . |
| 26 | The material of the culottes was one of her own hand screen-prints . |
| 27 | As he grew older , Richard II became more assertive , also became a patron of the arts and culture — Geoffrey Chaucer was one of his favourites — and that did not please the Duke of Gloucester , who with others began a civil war to remove the King 's favourites from Court . |
| 28 | And Ray went to this little cubby hole where these two fellers were one of them looked like a policeman did n't he ? |
| 29 | Most stayed behind and the Chief Rabbit was one of them . |
| 30 | Mr Thomas penywaun was one of my father 's first customers at the shop and he became a firm friend . |