Example sentences of "one that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is still a problem with modern plastic plumbing pipe , but one that can be overcome if the pipe is well supported and space is left for expansion . |
| 2 | It is an all-purpose complaint , one that can be invoked by a frustrated middle class to express its dashed expectations in the wake of Brazil 's decanonized ‘ Economic Miracle ’ , by the urban working class to express their condition of relative powerlessness , and by an impoverished class of displaced sugar-cane cutters and their families to express their hunger . |
| 3 | The presumption that the husband is the father of his wife 's children is one that can be overthrown only by evidence of the most cogent , even though not of the most direct , kind . |
| 4 | When you think about a spreadsheet database the idea to have in mind is of an active list — one that can be asked to supply any of the details you have typed into it . |
| 5 | Morrison 's epitaph on London Labour before the war , therefore , is not one that can be applied to West Ham . |
| 6 | A very fresh addition to the arcade section , great fun and one that can be played over and over again . |
| 7 | However , I would say that any branch of art — be it music , painting , sculpture , literature , drama , or poetry — which abandons formal principles to the point of formlessness is doomed to failure : form allows a sense of completeness in a work of art , one that can be grasped by us and held in our memories . |
| 8 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 9 | The best protection against such unwanted intrusion is a code of manners as between strangers , and one that can be breached only by mutual consent . |
| 10 | Third , that the task of undoing this conditioning is one that can be achieved solely by a rational process of learning to understand and fight against the social and institutional effects of male domination . |
| 11 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 12 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 13 | One of the easiest and most useful filters that can be made is one that can be used in the fry tank . |
| 14 | However , the importance of the semantic analyser relative to the other modules constitutes a narrower issue and one that can be investigated in a reasonable period of time . |
| 15 | Rousseau misses the point that direct experience is often inadequate as direct experience : an actual motor-car engine , even one that can be taken apart , does not really explain how internal combustion powers a car . |
| 16 | The leader is the dreaded primal father towards whom a passive masochistic stand is taken , for that is the only possible one that can be taken . |
| 17 | Most people believe that the Asian elephant is the only one that can be tamed and trained , that the African species is far too wild and dangerous . |
| 18 | He was posted to northern France , and in 1952 published an account of his activities ( which extended to French Flanders , Belgium , and Holland ) in Normandy Diary , a book of permanent value to the antiquarian and architectural historian , and one that can be read with pleasure by the non-specialist as an engaging but unconscious self-portrait . |
| 19 | Certainly not one that can be dredged out of a half-filled glass of flat tonic water . |
| 20 | Within walking distance , if you can , and one that can be tapped at weekends . |
| 21 | In general , however , efforts to turn the creation of strategic vision into a manageable process , one that can be researched , taught , and adopted by managers , risk robbing it of its vitality . |
| 22 | This is a sort of default mechanism which tells the reader that the participant last mentioned or , alternatively , the one in focus or the one that can be inferred on grounds of logic or context , is the subject of the following clause(s) unless otherwise indicated ( see discussion of theme and Chinese-style topic in Chapter 5 , section 5.1.1.4 ) . |