Example sentences of "one which [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was a redistributive aspect to funding of the national debt and its associated taxation , it was largely one which operated within the ranks of the better-off . |
| 2 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 3 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 4 | Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more . |
| 5 | We also had a modern electric one which ran off the mains and which was known as ‘ The Pay Cooker ’ , whose use was frowned upon except in cases of drought and when Nigel was making bread , for which the free oven did n't , to be honest , get quite hot enough . |
| 6 | Since a number of different initiatives on the issue of civil rights took place between 1962 and 1966 , it was probably fortuitous that the one which led to the creation of an organisation was the Wolfe Tone Societies conference , and even without their intervention , something very like NICRA would probably have emerged in any case . |
| 7 | There was , therefore , a special mentality about the small businessman , one quite distinct from that of either the working class or the manager of a large organisation , and one which corresponded with the ideology of a master race . |
| 8 | For , as we shall see , it is a remarkable and essential transformation , one which occurred at the beginning of human culture but which , in some subsequent cultures — possibly even in the modern world — could undergo retransformation back again into what it originally had been — an external tyranny . |
| 9 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 10 | One old miner even recollected seeing one which called upon the fathers of starving children " in the name of God and the King " to prevent vessels laden with corn from leaving Cornish ports . |
| 11 | But most bizarre is one which arrived in the office this week . |