Example sentences of "one which [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The tiger population may number some 500 or more , the largest surviving single population of the 7-8,000 in the world , and the only one which conforms to scientific calculations of the number required to retain the broad genetic base for natural evolution .
2 If the claim is one which relates to employment matters it will normally be within the jurisdiction of the industrial tribunal .
3 Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong .
4 This ‘ democratization ’ is , as Bernard reminds us , a relatively new trend of the last hundred or two hundred years , and one which contrasts with an earlier situation where marriage was ‘ … a kind of privilege , a prerogative , a gift bestowed by the community ’ ( Bernard , 1976 , p. 123 ) .
5 Fundamentally , the inventor ( or more usually , the employer of the inventor ) applies for a patent to the Patent Office in London , whether the inventor wants a United Kingdom patent or one which extends to other countries as well .
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 relatively short route but one which climbs to a height of 2,654ft to the summit of Meall a'Bhuachaille and so should be treated as a serious hill walk .
8 The information resulting from resource management must be seen as an open system available to be discussed in a safe atmosphere but one which seeks for improvements .
9 But any political project which hopes to inspire ‘ Thatcher 's children ’ must be rooted in a new kind of pragmatism , one which takes into account political realities and realises that the immediate goal of a higher standard of living and a greater degree of self-determination for all is as important as the long- term goal of a classless society .
10 A long shot is one which takes in the whole of a scene .
11 The metatheory needed to explicate this activity can not be one which derives from natural scientific work on a material , object world , in which there is no possibility of linguistic communication with the objects of investigation .
12 Notice that a dependent reason is not one which does in fact reflect the balance of reasons on which it depends : it is one which is meant to do so .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area .
16 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 .
17 This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety .
18 She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged .
19 In the latter case , they do have a restrictive value but one which belongs to their rather complicated lexical property , not to their structural function , and the target of that restriction is not the subject to which that property is assigned .
20 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 .
21 But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded .
22 A colligative property is one which depends upon the number of particles of the solute but not on the nature of the solute .
23 The ‘ official ’ theory of schooling , complete with its own rhetoric and its own implicit social and psychological theories is challenged by an ‘ unofficial ’ counterpart , such as the one which emerges from our participants ' accounts .
24 The Hong Kong Rugby Football Union , in a shock move — one which stems from desperation — saddled Simpkin with the post of national coach at the last meeting of its executive committee in March .
25 Bourdieu and Goldthorpe give us some preliminary insights into why a particularly dominant social group should engage in a postmodern way of life ; one which stems from social mobility , high incomes and which largely sets the pace for the remainder of the population .
26 Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx .
27 Our main conceptual framework in the first part of the research is one which builds upon a dual understanding of marriage as both relationship and institution .
28 An ability to mobilize external support is only one asset ( and one which varies in significance from one political system to another ) .
29 The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) .
30 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 ) .
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