Example sentences of "[Wh det] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first recorded occasion on which one member of the commons was chosen to act as a spokesman for them all . |
| 2 | Under the 1974 Constitution the office of President of the Collective Presidency ( head of state ) rotates annually in fixed sequence among the members of the Collective State Presidency , to which one member is elected by each republic and province for a four-year term . |
| 3 | Much later in the book I had a small scene in which one character is seen just about to tell the murderer , who was not conceivably present when the Maharajah perpetrated his joke , what had happened . |
| 4 | This was possible because human life was regarded as primarily the life of the community in which one generation quietly succeeded another , so that there was no pressing need for rapid construction . |
| 5 | There were a number of lengthy songs on the subject of the Seven Ages of Man , and it is not possible to be certain which one CD is referring to here . |
| 6 | It will consist of a number of relatively enduring traits , or ways in which one individual differs from another , and it will be the foundation on which the horse 's personality is built . |
| 7 | ‘ seamless service ’ , providing all the elements which one individual requires ( this is the function of case management described in Chapter 6 ) |
| 8 | This usually consists of worship and praise and comprises the singing of a number of songs , with a good deal of repetition in which one song succeeds another without a break . |
| 9 | Indeed , as the writing system was not standardized , it is likely that variation of this kind would enter more readily into the texts than it would today , and that it may therefore be possible by comparing texts to trace the pattern by which one variant recedes and another spreads . |
| 10 | ‘ The Friend in Disgrace ’ is a dialogue in which one friend fails to recognize another who has suffered misfortune : |
| 11 | The two men then retired for goodwill talks , which one US official described as ‘ not negotiations ’ . |
| 12 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 13 | But to have a multiple personality , in which one self may suddenly be overthrown by another and one mind may be torn in several different directions is sometimes so intolerable , I long for extinction . |
| 14 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 15 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 16 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 17 | The Staufer were far from satisfied with this reply , which one chronicler reports on as containing many absurd and untrue things , " multa absurda et quedam falsa " . |
| 18 | One particularly interesting example is Kleinig 's conception of consent as ‘ an act in which one person tends to facilitate the initiative of another ’ in a manner which makes him a participant in that initiative who shares responsibility for it . |
| 19 | It is about a mutual seeking in which one person ( the director ) , mature and skilled in his/her ministry , is alongside another ( the directee ) in his/her pilgrimage towards Christian maturity and that integration in which the inner and outer person become united . |
| 20 | Care was identified as being those activities which one person did for another ; informal care consisted of practical care , information/advocacy , links with the outside world , regular surveillance , social integration ( belonging to a group or having a satisfying role in relation to others ) and affection . |
| 21 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 22 | In this kind of novel the act of narration is modelled on a speech act in which one person tells a story to another . |
| 23 | NIH officials say only that the witnesses were notified ‘ in the most expeditious way possible ’ ; members of BIG insist that a telephone tree was created in which one person was told to call several others . |
| 24 | This provoked disorders in which one person died and sixty were injured . |
| 25 | Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates . |
| 26 | A pure public good is a good for which one person 's consumption does not reduce the quantity available for consumption by others . |
| 27 | In May 1989 Judge Baltasar Garzón travelled to Paris to question the senior ETA leaders Santiago Arróspide Sarasola ( " Santi Potros " — arrested in Anglet in September 1987 ) , José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea ( " Josu Ternera " — arrested on Jan. 11 , 1989 , in Bayonne — see p. 36406 , where the date is wrongly given as Jan. 12 ) , Elena Beloki Resa ( arrested with Urrutikoetxea ) and Mariano Estebán González Betolaza ( arrested on April 14 in Montpellier , southern France ) ; in July Garzón requested the Spanish government to begin extradition proceedings against Arróspide for his part in organizing a May 1987 attack on the Madrid Civil Guard headquarters in which one person was killed . |
| 28 | They were to be exchanged for Nasir Sa'id , a Palestinian serving a life sentence in Belgium for an attack in 1980 on Jewish children in Antwerp , in which one person was killed and 16 wounded . |
| 29 | A Greek court sentenced Muhammad Rashid , a Palestinian , to 18 years in prison on Jan. 8 after convicting him of premeditated manslaughter for his role in the 1982 mid-air bombing of a US Pan-Am airliner over Hawaii in which one person died [ see pp. 36563 ; 36667 ] . |
| 30 | Leadership can essentially be described as a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour of other people . |