Example sentences of "but it was one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years later the Union admitted that an annual minimum salary of £150 was still a goal but it was one which was never reached in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The main reason for this was pointed out in Chapter I ( : the beneficiary of a trust had a relationship with the property under trust , but it was one which did not fall neatly into a civil-law category . |
| 3 | The latter notion has never been made very clear , but it was one much promoted by Minsky in the late 1960s ( it enormously influenced Winograd 's view of the organization of a language understanding system , for example ) ; its essence was that there need be no permanent upper node of a system , as there always is in a hierarchical system , but that different nodes at different ‘ levels ’ could take control at different times . |
| 4 | But it was one I could n't wake from . |
| 5 | The US move was clearly designed as a challenge to the Castro regime , but it was one which ( in the words of the then US Ambassador to Cuba , Philip Bonsal , who strongly opposed the Treasury decision ) would , if met , give the Cuban revolution a ‘ shot in the arm ’ comparable to the effect of the Suez Crisis on the Nasser regime . |
| 6 | It was n't an amused smile , but it was one that sent her away at a brisk and confident walk towards the house , and with a gratifying sense of being respected and appreciated . |
| 7 | That would be the ultimate betrayal — but it was one she did n't need to suffer . |
| 8 | But it was one believed by Harsnett to be controlled by the state and at the periphery of society . |
| 9 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 10 | A participant orientation was developed in Britain ( citizens being oriented to the input as well as the output side of the political system , believing that they enjoyed access to it ) , but it was one adapted to an existing deference to the independent authority of government . |
| 11 | But it was one the er er er er , the village green |