Example sentences of "one which [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 2 | Johnson believed good humour an acquired quality , one which came with the ageing process , and came of learning to please others rather than the child 's instant gratification of pleasing itself . |
| 3 | The difference between a machine which responds to mere sound and one which responds to the spoken language is like the difference between the speaking clock and the operator in the telephone system . |
| 4 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 5 | The historical development which the exhibition unfolds is one which begins with the female nude masquerading as history and moves on to the abandoning of these supplementary narratives in favour of the representation of the body for its own sake , for its intrinsic formal qualities and expressive potential . |
| 6 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 7 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 8 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |