Example sentences of "one that [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose one that takes a thick nylon line rather than the thinner type that will break more easily . |
| 2 | A beneficial health care activity is one that generates a positive number of QALYs , and an efficient health care activity is one for which the cost per QALY is low . |
| 3 | She had a remarkable face , one that denoted a quick intellect and a kind heart . |
| 4 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 5 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
| 6 | Then , finally , in 1662 , he apologetically asked Charles II not ‘ to think the worse of me , if snatching up all the weapons to fight against your enemies , I lighted upon one that had a double edge ’ . |
| 7 | Out of 4,000 scientific publications they selected 529 ‘ key articles ’ ( ‘ a key article was defined as one that had an important effect on the direction of subsequent research and development , which in turn proved to be important for one of the ten clinical advances ’ ) . |
| 8 | Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries . |
| 9 | Skymaster is a very useful service and one that deserves a wider audience . |
| 10 | Choosing the right car is a hard task , especially one that fits a better quality of life . |
| 11 | The one that requires a little explanation is ‘ social grade ’ . |
| 12 | It will be better for the APB to issue a delayed but duly considered SAS , rather than one that meets an early deadline but does not adequately address all the issues involved . |
| 13 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 14 | But one that has had the error beep replaced by a robotic voice screaming ‘ Attention ! ’ is likely to have the opposite effect , as is one that ingests a floppy disc accompanied by a long drawn out grumble taken from a soggy passage in the Star Wars trilogy . |
| 15 | It was new , expensive and identical to the one that occupied a full page in the current Vogue , so I had spent the day at a crime fiction convention feeling more confident about my appearance than usual . |
| 16 | Breathing like one that hath a weary dream . |
| 17 | Yet even at university , it may well still be a minority of departments that expect all mathematics students to use computers as a matter of course ; indeed , some people fear that higher education will be the phase most resistant to new IT , rather than the one that provides a strong lead . |
| 18 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 19 | It was significant that the art department at Redbrook Secondary School , which was the only one with a formal syllabus , was also the only one that pursued a deliberate policy of incorporating references to ‘ works of art ’ in its programme : |
| 20 | Let us first consider the impact of imposing a proportional income tax , that is , one that taxed a constant proportion of one 's income however high , and raising the same revenue as a tax on one particular product , or a narrow range of products . |
| 21 | It 's a powerful force to be reckoned with , and one that ensures a true deep-down clean all around your home . |
| 22 | As both those particular models of socialism have lost credibility , a debate has opened on the possibility of an alternative definition of the socialist goal — one that occupies a space somewhere between regulated capitalism and centrally planned state socialism , and one that finds a new balance of the strengths and weaknesses of planning and the market . |
| 23 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 24 | If you compare a striped object with one that has a different kind of black and white pattern , they do not appear to be the same size even if , in reality , they are identical . |
| 25 | Do n't let's just say drugs are bad , because for every one that has a bad time , and some people have a terrible time , you say some people die , I accept that . |
| 26 | In general , the ideal medium in which to grow vines for wine production is one that has a thin drift topsoil for good drainage and an easily penetrable , thus well drained subsoil of good water retention characteristics . |
| 27 | A good example ( and one that affords an interesting comparison with Beccaria ) is his attitude towards torture . |