Example sentences of "[conj] one that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before him , ’ he said , ‘ people only knew how to make a grey wine or one that was the colour of straw . ’ |
| 2 | But it has also been suggested that the animal 's heart could not have pumped enough blood to nourish a head any larger , or one that was in fact more solid than the light , airy structure of the skull of many known species . |
| 3 | In many of the colleges this was a new concept , or one that was implemented only cursorily . |
| 4 | Unlike most of his earlier groups , they recorded and rehearsed regularly and had an identity , albeit one that was somewhat confused . |
| 5 | It failed , above all , to topple Saddam Hussein , whose removal , Mr Record says , was always one of America 's chief war aims , albeit one that was not blessed by the United Nations . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the political implications , the circumstance that the money was paid under the sentence of a court , albeit one that was held to have no jurisdiction , gives the case a flavour of duress , so that it is not a significant authority in Woolwich 's favour . |
| 7 | Interest was growing in the development of some sort of European multilateral nuclear force ( MLF ) , albeit one that was ultimately under American control . |
| 8 | In cases such as these , trial courts were clearly operating with an offender-based tariff rather than one that was offence-based . |
| 9 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
| 10 | After the Moabite armies had been wiped out , all of the enemy women ‘ that have known man by lying with him ’ were ordered to be killed , a public health measure of a rather drastic order , although one that was highly effective . |
| 11 | President Ford demanded that the assassins be ‘ brought to justice ’ , a curious concept in Lebanon just then and one that was predictably ignored . |
| 12 | For what we had just created was not a life but a death , and one that was to take far less than nine months to gestate . |
| 13 | The inherent danger of reliance on any particular method , and one that was apparent in some responses , is the tendency for libraries who can not utilize external courses or release staff internally as they would ideally like to , largely to abandon ( or never fully entertain ) , the concept of systematic training for all staff . |
| 14 | It is clear that there was a vengeful aspect to this behaviour , and one that was heavy with oral aggression . |
| 15 | But the early years of fear and the hostility between Luke and his father , who died of a heart attack in 1980 , left a deep scar on the young boy and one that was to shape his rebellious school years . |
| 16 | Gender divisions were an obvious and convenient division for teachers to use and one that was not contentious during most of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | A reversion to older morality and convention seemed a safer course to adopt , and one that was not necessarily incompatible with the pursuit of political , legal and economic activities along Western lines . |
| 18 | Adolescence was now seen as a special stage of life , and one that was , moreover , clearly differentiated on class lines . |
| 19 | And there was still the absurd question of protocol involved in who should occupy the Presidential Palace in Saigon which was turning into a long-running farce and one that was unlikely to be resolved in Bao Dai 's favour as long as de Lattre was High Commissioner . |
| 20 | Another problem , and one that was intimated in the previous paragraph , is the question of who is to be considered accountable to whom . |
| 21 | Keith and one that was in here |
| 22 | ‘ And anyway , ’ whispered another voice , and one that was rather more matter-of-fact because it was her own , ‘ there 's a young eagle out there called Creggan who needs to know a few things if he 's going to survive and be free . ’ |
| 23 | Capitalism , for its part , was a system plagued by problems and crises , and one that was aggressive and interventionist by its very nature . |
| 24 | It seemed , after all , a perfectly proper arrangement and one that was , in a way , almost professional . |
| 25 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |
| 26 | Another key to Private Eye 's success , and one that was not to be lost on the underground , was its use of offset litho printing . |
| 27 | It was not an easy decision to make but one that was helped by the undoubted pedigree of the new team . |
| 28 | This was a difficult action for us , due to our utmost regard for the memory of Leo Fender , but one that was necessitated by the actions of the new management at G&L . ’ |
| 29 | She had a quick glimpse of another sun-filled room , but one that was much more comfortably furnished , with a sofa and armchairs , bookcases , small tables , and television , video and stereo equipment . |
| 30 | It was a sobering thought , but one that was whipped out of her mind by Travis 's return . |