Example sentences of "one [Wh det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
2 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |
3 | Our main conceptual framework in the first part of the research is one which builds upon a dual understanding of marriage as both relationship and institution . |
4 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
5 | On the Von Neumann computer the only conditional jump instruction was one which tested for a non-negative value in the accumulator . |
6 | The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) . |
7 | Silas ignored the comment and went out to the car to collect her case , returning with a particularly large one which hinted of a lengthy stay . |
8 | Moving tones are more common ; if English speakers want to say ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ in a definite , final manner they will probably use a falling tone — one which descends from a higher to a lower pitch . |
9 | The haiku was one which ended with a downward cut , followed by a single outward thrust . |
10 | There is often a fast turnover of patients especially if the surgical ward is one which deals with a large number of minor procedures , which involve only one night in hospital or for which the patient is admitted as a " day case " . |
11 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |