Example sentences of "one which [verb] [prep] the " 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 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 . |
| 4 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 7 | A long shot is one which takes in the whole of a scene . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is yet another story of hide and seek on these hills , but there is historical evidence for this one which dates from the autumn of 1536 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 15 | A work in which the meaning is fully apparent at a literal level is normally easier than one which depends on the interpretation of extended metaphor , analogy , symbolism , and so on . |
| 16 | A colligative property is one which depends upon the number of particles of the solute but not on the nature of the solute . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is rather one which results from the process of ‘ legal reading ’ , that is , the reading of the text against the background of ‘ the legal reader 's access to a store of specifically legal relevant contexts ’ ( Davies , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | The best way of preventing scale , however , is to replace the cylinder with an indirect one where the same water is circulated round and round the ‘ primary ’ circuit ( the one which passes through the boiler ) which , once it has given up its chemical salts , is in effect softened so that no more will be deposited . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The proposal to harmonize VAT rates is one which cuts across the UK 's wish to cling to its fiscal sovereignty . |
| 24 | Market orientation-a market-orientated organization is one which focuses on the needs of its customers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The technical term is one which concentrates on the fact that any form of ranking constitutes a hierarchy . |
| 27 | This led to Jeff 's development of a personal tapping style , one which deviates from the two-handed norm … |
| 28 | It is true that the Ecclesiastical Court is not the only one which deals with the goods of dead men ; the executor or administrator may have to sue in the Common Law Courts to recover the claims or property of the deceased , and the deceased 's creditors can sue him there . |
| 29 | A fourth and less myopic perspective is one which deals with the functions of a service for the wider welfare system or for society as a whole . |
| 30 | Buy one which attaches to the wall with hooks . |