Example sentences of "one [prep] which [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iraqi plane was one of four to cross the parallel that day ; the first two had flown north when challenged , but the second two ( one of which escaped ) had turned to confront the US fighters , in what US officials considered a deliberate attempt to test the resolve of the allies — the USA , the United Kingdom and France — in policing the " no-fly zone " established in August [ see pp. 39068-69 ] . |
| 2 | In addition to the in hospital assessment , we also wanted to know what the patients thought about the amount of information they were given , and to do this we administered a telephone questionnaire consisting of six questions about their inpatient experiences , one of which read ‘ Was the amount of information you received before your operation too much , about right , or too little ? ’ |
| 3 | And actually they 've got two miniature scores in the library , one of which said it was in E flat , and the other one said it was in C minor , so you pays your money and you takes your choice , erm |
| 4 | Instead , they had driven on eastwards , beyond the last heath of the New Forest as far as the housing estates fringing Fawley Oil Refinery , on one of which lived Molly Diamond , Dysart 's cleaning lady . |
| 5 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 6 | By the end of 1980 there were thirteen ‘ Laura Ashley ’ stores in the US , not one of which took less than $400 per square foot annually in sales . |
| 7 | Each sentence was presented in conjunction with two pictures , one of which depicted the singular version of the sentence and one the plural . |
| 8 | ‘ The Home Office has funded various research projects , one of which looked at the effect of murder on the victims ’ families ; this has enabled local schemes to help victims of the most serious crime . |
| 9 | Her long nails were pearly pink , beautifully manicured , and Luce noticed she wore several rings , one of which looked like a wedding band . |
| 10 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 11 | In the early part of 1990 there was a run of particularly low tides , one of which resulted in a boatyard in Sant'Elena , on the north-eastern edge of Venice , burning to a cinder because the fire boats had to take a roundabout route . |
| 12 | However , I know of repeated pleas for action and the despair of so many small firms , one of which resulted in yet another suicide of someone whom I knew , resulting from business failure . |
| 13 | THE RSPCA has been criticised for bringing two ‘ home alone ’ court cases , only one of which resulted in a successful prosecution . |
| 14 | Various dockyard salvage ships and lighters also arrived , one of which carried James Parke , the Master attendant on Portsmouth dockyard . |
| 15 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 16 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 17 | It also adopted four constitutional amendments , one of which specified that only the Macedonian Assembly could proclaim a state of emergency in the republic . |
| 18 | Inside there are five courtyards , one of which contained the family apartments and was originally connected to the garden and the great sala terrena by a door in the wall facing you . |
| 19 | stolen , one of which contained the last and only |
| 20 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 21 | Occupation began in the second century , being represented by pebbled spreads associated with several poorly recorded timber buildings , one of which contained ovens and hearths . |
| 22 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 23 | He reflected on the options which had been open to him , one of which had led to his downfall . |
| 24 | My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail . |
| 25 | I was running along the pavement of Rochdale Road , just after midnight , wearing , among other things , two quilted anoraks , one of which had fourteen pounds of sand sewn into the lining . |
| 26 | On Wednesday 16th December , Oxford Street was closed for four hours following two bomb explosions , one of which had been planted in a toilet in John Lewis department store . |
| 27 | The cottage had one sizeable room above two others , one of which had been reclaimed from its original function as byre for the cow and converted into a scullery , with a copper and sink which drained straight into the field . |
| 28 | The pigeons were then split into two groups , one of which had their bills smeared with olive oil and the other with turpentine . |
| 29 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 30 | Beyond the compact unity of the City of London and the LCC ( and its constituent metropolitan boroughs ) there lay a multiplicity of administrative units , extending over almost 2,600 square miles divided amongst no less than 143 local authorities , nearly every one of which had a planning scheme prepared or in course of preparation , independently of its neighbours . |