Example sentences of "one [noun] that was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whiting cooked with its tail in its mouth teaches us to think all round a problem , ’ answered Auguste , lovingly poking back one tail that was sprawling over the edge of his basket . |
| 2 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 3 | One consideration that was coming to influence the more perceptive minds was a realisation of the immensity of the populated globe . |
| 4 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 5 | That was one thing that was missing . |
| 6 | The one thing that was going on in Christ Church was good — did you see the exhibition , the exhibition |
| 7 | ‘ After the Doncaster experiment we felt that this was the one element that was missing , ’ explained chief executive Edward Gillespie . |