Example sentences of "one which [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new view of war , albeit one which had close links with past ideas , was gradually emerging . |
| 2 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |
| 3 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 4 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 5 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
| 6 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 7 | By its identification of , and concentration on , the ‘ gatekeepers ’ of the urban system , it gave a way of shifting research from an emphasis on empirical variables to one which stressed political processes , actual decision-making and the real exercise of political power . |
| 8 | Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul . |
| 9 | Cranston loved this place , a veritable den of iniquity but one which sold good ales , fine wine and delicious food . |
| 10 | Mr Major may have played a clever hand over Scotland in the run-up to the election , and one which brought unexpected success . |
| 11 | This was a satisfying performance , in which the soloist demonstrated a fine technique ; one which healed great clarity in the taxing scale work and sensitive and tender response in the slow movement . |
| 12 | You appear to be experiencing a similar situation to the one which occurred last October . |
| 13 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 14 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 15 | This was no accidental condition , following wholly from some alleged natural benightedness of the backdunes , but one which required constant vigilance and determination . |
| 16 | The process was very gradual , but the evolution from an essentially contractual relationship between king and magnates to one which acknowledged some form of sovereignty ( superioritas ) had taken place by the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | The Act converted the permissive policy , allowing local authorities to sell their houses , into a mandatory one which compelled local authorities to sell houses to tenants who expressed a wish to purchase the houses they were occupying . |
| 18 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
| 19 | The method of lexical representation used was one which allowed efficient representation and search . |