Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] one [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those whom it has encouraged are the likes of Saddam Hussein , who are fundamentally correct in claiming a link between the two occupations — hardly a flattering analogy but one for which many people may be about to pay for America 's 30 years of pusillanimity in the Middle East . |
| 2 | Also , I should say that erm the District Health Authorities now also have the right to initiate this , and of course they are more likely to be in contact with children who are under erm school age , and so it 's going to imply that the different services within the Local Authorities are going to have to work quite closely together on this one and what you should have , by the time a statement is prepared , is a very detailed profile of a particular child and one in which the parent has been consulted and various other people have been consulted . |
| 3 | In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers . |
| 4 | The evaluators ' initial impression was of a school with a fairly traditional outlook but one in which facilities were enviable . |
| 5 | This molecule has two possible structures , one within the potassium atom bound to a single oxygen atom and one in which it is attached to two oxygens . |
| 6 | It is both a pretty and well-organized place in its own right and one from which you can drive profitably off in every direction , up a whole sheaf of good valleys and into some ravishing high country . |
| 7 | It is an attractive town and one in which it is still pleasant just to wander around its streets and along the banks of the River Wear . |
| 8 | Of the remaining three , George Canning , the future prime minister , was only briefly ambassador in Lisbon in 1814 – 15 , when his political career at home was at a low ebb ; and the two others , Robert Liston and Stratford Canning , represented Britain in Constantinople , a very important post but one in which high social rank was not the advantage it was in the other great capitals . |
| 9 | He wanted to make another attempt at the kind of theatrical work with which he had experimented in Sweeney Agonistes — a verse drama but one in which the verse seems the natural expression of modern life , and which is able in a heightened or symbolic context to employ the tones and inflections of ordinary , contemporary speech . |
| 10 | This would result in flow of the matrix over the undeformed fibrils giving , again , a permanently deformed product but one in which the fibril length was unchanged . |
| 11 | I have often heard this said as a last-ditch attempt by adults to find consolation or uplift from a dreich church service or one in which the sermon was the dominant factor and was long-winded or incomprehensible or both . |
| 12 | This will be a price worth paying only if the vital expressive quality of the work is sustained and enhanced ; that is to say , whether the carer be man or woman , the tasks to be performed involve a relationship with the old person and one in which the essential core of the response should be benign and experienced by the old person as loving . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Wilson ’ , he said , ‘ is imposing on Prince Charles a sacrifice which he would not dream of imposing on his own son. , It was indeed a sacrifice and one from which many a twenty-year-old would have turned and run . |
| 14 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 15 | ‘ The fundamental message ’ , states Michael Saulet , Marketing Director , ‘ is that the name of Stoddard Templeton is synonymous with quality and one with which retailers can expect to profit . |
| 16 | For individual schools a pregnant teenager is still a relatively rare occurrence and one in which it is difficult to cater for all the physical , medical , social , residential and educational needs of the prospective mother and baby . |
| 17 | Hib-E speakers appear to have access to two systems here , one in which meat merges with mate and one in which meat merges with meet ; that is , they know both mergers . |
| 18 | All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , well , it is an offensively elementary consideration and one to which Ministers ' attention had been drawn . |
| 20 | When Senegal achieved self-government in 1958 , and full independence in 1960 , Senghor presided over a one-party state but one in which public debate was more widespread than in most of Africa . |
| 21 | It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood . |
| 22 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 23 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 24 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 25 | Housing is obviously a crucial resource and one for which , moreover , the whole rural population — farmers and farm workers , locals and newcomers , agricultural and non-agricultural families — are competing . |
| 26 | It would be an additional folly to impose generic substitution at a time when the Japanese government has singled out pharmaceuticals as a significant area for growth and one to which high technology is applicable . |
| 27 | As an entertaining diversion and one on which you can again get your hands dirty we consider a small point which naturally arises here , namely : Is it in fact the case that each of the numbers Nn is itself a prime ? |
| 28 | Ideally , good management in education is a discreet matter but one in which nevertheless training can be offered . |
| 29 | Writing in the FRC 's second annual review , Sir Ron warns that ‘ the next year will be a controversial one for the ASB and one in which the Board will need strong support ’ . |
| 30 | Survival of the fittest is the law of the jungle and one by which all animals , including humans , are bound . |