Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll be more likely to get killed with them falling on us than anything what the Jerrys throw down , ’ Hetty said . |
| 2 | Just because he had by now become an important agent of the Roman rule , and one whom the Romans trusted , he felt the need of continuing his history from 166 to 146 to show how the Romans had behaved . |
| 3 | When that work is taken away , the dog becomes a luxury and one which the simple people of that time could not afford . |
| 4 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |
| 5 | The queen 's presence in sanctuary with her second son , the duke of York , was an embarrassment and one which the council , at least , probably wanted to resolve . |
| 6 | But where the decision is reached on the basis of two quite separate considerations , one which is relevant and one which the authority is not entitled to take into account , the court must decide which was the dominant consideration . |
| 7 | I was thinking of a slightly less permanent way and one which the Chancellor 's made slightly more expensive . |
| 8 | When Sir John Donaldson was appointed to succeed Lord Denning in July 1982 , this was seen as a strongly political appointment and one which the Prime Minister favoured . |
| 9 | The kingdom of Fib ( Fife ) with Forthreve ( Kinross-shire ) , possibly a dependent territory of Fortriu and one which the Northumbrian Cuthbert visited as prior of Melrose in the course of his pastoral responsibilities , was probably also subjugated . |
| 10 | The debate on energy policy is a vital one , and one which the G M B as the only union with a sizable membership in all of the industries concerned , is well placed to lead . |
| 11 | It is a programme for victory at the next general election and one which the people will support . |
| 12 | It is an exciting and fascinating story and one which the visitor to excavated Pompeii seems to re-live . |
| 13 | The queen 's presence in sanctuary with her second son , the duke of York , was an embarrassment and one which the council , at least , probably wanted to resolve . |
| 14 | Lawyers may rightly point out that this does not constitute , of itself , an effective restriction on any statutory power or discretion , but it is an important statement of policy , and one which the statutory and voluntary guardians of amenity will seize upon whenever it is infringed . |
| 15 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 16 | One which the developer would prefer and one which the local authority and maybe sustainability policies would prefer . |
| 17 | Burning Bartle is not an especially spectacular event , but one which the local people are determined to keep going . |
| 18 | Such vision is an unusual attribute , but one which the artist maintains has been with him since a very young age . |
| 19 | This is a very hard question to answer but one which the executive search firms would like to answer in a really strong and substantive way . |
| 20 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 21 | He was a prophet in the wilderness , perhaps , but one whom the wilderness had entered and upon which he depended for his terrible denunciations . |