Example sentences of "one [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a prophet in the wilderness , perhaps , but one whom the wilderness had entered and upon which he depended for his terrible denunciations . |
| 2 | Just because he had by now become an important agent of the Roman rule , and one whom the Romans trusted , he felt the need of continuing his history from 166 to 146 to show how the Romans had behaved . |
| 3 | Such imaginative concert planning deserves a more versatile acoustic , one which the Town Hall , for all its considerable virtues , does not possess . |
| 4 | The figures from the 15 largest privatisations since 1981 and the two public sale-like floats — TSB and Abbey National — tell a different story from the one which the proponents of the programme would like us to believe . |
| 5 | When that work is taken away , the dog becomes a luxury and one which the simple people of that time could not afford . |
| 6 | This arrangement had been ‘ decided upon as the one which the Government can best justify to Parliament ’ . |
| 7 | Burning Bartle is not an especially spectacular event , but one which the local people are determined to keep going . |
| 8 | A young stable lad led out another horse , and stood waiting for the one which the smith had almost finished shoeing . |
| 9 | Such vision is an unusual attribute , but one which the artist maintains has been with him since a very young age . |
| 10 | South African tour manager Abie Malan , preparing for the tourists ' first game with England since 1984 , said : ‘ I am disappointed to hear such news on the eve of the last important match of our tour , one which the ANC publicly approved . |
| 11 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 12 | A fundamental breach is one which the courts would consider more serious than an ordinary breach . |
| 13 | This is a very hard question to answer but one which the executive search firms would like to answer in a really strong and substantive way . |
| 14 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 15 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 16 | But his candidacy was naturally unacceptable to Henry I of England , who feared that the wealth and military power of Flanders would give Clito an unassailable advantage in Normandy ; and the risk of antagonizing Henry was not one which the cloth towns cared to take , because they feared disruption of the wool supply . |
| 17 | The queen 's presence in sanctuary with her second son , the duke of York , was an embarrassment and one which the council , at least , probably wanted to resolve . |
| 18 | The creation of such a ‘ free state ’ of the same order as the one which the French already recognized in Hanoi was bound to reflect on French good faith and again to call the unity of Vietnam into question . |
| 19 | But where the decision is reached on the basis of two quite separate considerations , one which is relevant and one which the authority is not entitled to take into account , the court must decide which was the dominant consideration . |
| 20 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 21 | As the actual words and stylistic devices recede from the reader 's consciousness their place is taken by an illusion of actual experience , one which the reader shares without actually being involved in it . |
| 22 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 23 | After hibernating through the winter months , a male sand lizard wakes up and sheds his old brown skin for a new green one which the duller female finds attractive . |
| 24 | The routine pollution , then , is one which the field officer can keep private as between himself , the complainant ( if any ) , and the discharger ( if he can be detected ) . |
| 25 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 26 | Some limits had to be set to such claims ; and the selection of such limits , being essentially a matter of policy , was one which the legislature alone is equipped to make . |
| 27 | The question remains whether in all the circumstances of this case the level of disturbance mentioned is one which the residents must be called upon to accept . |
| 28 | The decision whether or not to exercise this power , and to serve a notice before hearing the persons to whom it is directed or whom it will affect , must be one which the board must balance against what it regards as the interests of investors . |
| 29 | I was thinking of a slightly less permanent way and one which the Chancellor 's made slightly more expensive . |
| 30 | When Sir John Donaldson was appointed to succeed Lord Denning in July 1982 , this was seen as a strongly political appointment and one which the Prime Minister favoured . |