Example sentences of "one that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a childhood rich in the family traditions of Judaism , one that was made to feel all the more in need of protection , thanks to the brutality against them and their people in Europe . |
| 2 | It was not an easy decision to make but one that was helped by the undoubted pedigree of the new team . |
| 3 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 4 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 5 | Here 's one that was an able workman long |
| 6 | There was not a herb or flowering plant of any sort to be met on our walks that he did not know , and hardly one that was not invaluable as a remedy for some complaint . |
| 7 | He did not take Eleanor there in the end , though , as there was one that was even nearer and cheaper . |
| 8 | He slept alone in the big double bed , curled up in his stolen greatcoat beneath a single woollen blanket exactly like the one that was nailed across the window . |
| 9 | Cain had killed his brother because he was jealous of the fact that Abel seemed to be the one that was favoured by God . |
| 10 | But eventually he found one that was almost empty with tall arch windows and broken tiles about the floor . |
| 11 | Now the side that had more failures ( or more was the side that lost , and the row that had less , of course , was the one that was successful . |
| 12 | To begin with , dams create lakes behind them , and the one that was to build up behind Aswan , Lake Nasser , was supposed to be 500 km in length , with a surface of 5100 square km . |
| 13 | One that was more attractively worded than the rest caught her eye . |
| 14 | President Ford demanded that the assassins be ‘ brought to justice ’ , a curious concept in Lebanon just then and one that was predictably ignored . |
| 15 | The ability of the CS to evoke the CR after conditioning trials have been given will depend , in part , upon that stimulus being identified with the one that was presented during conditioning . |
| 16 | He did the same as me ; gave a poor reason and then a good one that was embarrassing , to stop us seeking further . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I then chose one that was of interest for some other reason . |
| 19 | Unlike most of his earlier groups , they recorded and rehearsed regularly and had an identity , albeit one that was somewhat confused . |
| 20 | Well , I called in there today for cigars and I saw this young woman ; and you remember the one that was in the sweet shop , she was so nice and obliging ; well I thought I was looking at her twin . |
| 21 | This problem was one that was confronting the brothers as they sat one late night at Rafferty 's after everyone had gone . |
| 22 | But there is a rather different interpretation , one that was quite apparent in the city of Liverpool between the wars , for voluntary and involuntary resignations . |
| 23 | A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm — one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles — was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects . |
| 24 | More than that and you would get a belt on your hand for every one that was incorrect . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We along with the rest of Paris , found one that was open . |
| 28 | ‘ Before him , ’ he said , ‘ people only knew how to make a grey wine or one that was the colour of straw . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is amazing that in this age of guitar exotica , courtesy of PRS , Valley Arts and so on , most players can not help but become romantic and misty-eyed about an old Strat — even one that was made in Japan only a month or so ago . |