Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [be] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time Singapore was reported to be one of Myanma 's main suppliers of arms and ammunition . |
| 2 | The continuing high level of inflation was reported to be one of the principal causes of public dissatisfaction with the party , which had been founded by Özal as a broad alliance in 1983 . |
| 3 | He was considered to be one of the most dangerous of all the fascists and was interned until the end of the Second World War . |
| 4 | Although is mother 's house had always been spotless , and was considered to be one of the most exclusive brothels in the red-light district , it too had managed to capture some of the essence of the tenements , a lingering miasma that no matter how often the skivvies scrubbed and washed the floors and walls still managed to seep into the house . |
| 5 | As James Mountford confirms , the stimulus of the war had generated a whole range of books about universities and their function , of which Leavis 's was considered to be one of the most important examples . |
| 6 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 7 | This was expected to be one of the issues to be raised during the meeting . |
| 8 | He was reckoned to be one of the officers prepared to use force to put down the revolution . |
| 9 | Being a soft teacher was seen to be one of the worst categories of offence . |
| 10 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 11 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 12 | Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse . |
| 13 | Wittgenstein , Ludwig ( 1890–1981 ) One of the most brilliant of twentieth century philosophers , Wittgenstein was destined to be one of the most quoted and misquoted by theologians . |
| 14 | There was , though , a real danger that he was destined to be one of the game 's nearly men . |
| 15 | He could see with half an eye that the kid 's aunt was going to be one of the confident , bossy , well-connected women with whom that part of Cambridgeshire was substantially over-provided . |
| 16 | Because the two subjects were approached separately what was going to be one piece became almost like two stories . |
| 17 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 18 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 19 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 20 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 21 | Newcastle reckoned their match against Oxford was going to be one big party . |
| 22 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 23 | The blaze , which started on Saturday , was thought to be one of the city 's largest . |
| 24 | The Post was thought to be one of the more vulnerable titles . |
| 25 | It was bound to be one of the young reporters . |
| 26 | She was known to be one of the little ones who had filled in their colouring books irreverently , making our Lord 's beard purple , or even green , largely , to be sure , because she never bothered to get hold of the best crayons first . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough Bears 41 Slangerup 47 THIS was set to be one of the most exciting challenges for the opening of a new season at Middlesbrough 's Cleveland Park last night , but wet and miserable conditions turned it into something of a farce . |
| 28 | She also did a lucrative sideline in stolen goods and peddled information to the Dublin underworld , and she was reputed to be one of the most powerful and certainly one of the richest women in Dublin . |
| 29 | A taciturn man of medium height and powerful build , with a square , weather-beaten face , he was reputed to be one of the best skippers sailing out of Hull . |
| 30 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |