Example sentences of "one which [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Toby 's experience friendship between a boy in his fourth year and one in his second was a rare occurrence , and one which would usually be a particular sort of friendship . |
| 2 | Subject to one very important exception , the English courts will not grant a Mareva injunction unless the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant is one which may properly be adjudicated upon in England . |
| 3 | However , it does suggest that the issue of how and why children come to be labelled as abused is a problem in its own right , and one which may well be prior to questions of cause and control . |
| 4 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 5 | A less legitimate gain , but one which might still be made in an unsuccessful war , was to exploit the system of contracting to provide troops . |
| 6 | However , being the ‘ magician ’ that he is , the demonstration proved to be a truly amazing spectacle — one which will undoubtedly be discussed in school staff common-rooms for some time to come . |
| 7 | Perhaps the biggest change , and one which will gradually be effected , is that of attitude and culture . |
| 8 | Sometimes this results in a major objection being reduced to one which can easily be dealt with . |
| 9 | The adjective must of course be one which can plausibly be ascribed to the entity of the subject if the whole is to be grammatically acceptable . |
| 10 | The Family Model is the one which can best be understood in terms of feeling . |
| 11 | The discussion of how a teacher can deal with the language capabilities of young deaf children is a lengthy one which can only be summarised . |
| 12 | The subject is one which needs to be brought to the attention of the Environment Committee and is something which the Council 's Environment Officer , once appointed , may wish to tackle on a corporate basis although one which can only be a token gesture since neither the use of peat or the peat land resource in Lothian are major issues . |
| 13 | The machinery they use , their cars , their clothes , the tourists they encounter , the music they hear , all summon up the idea of a new , modern , ‘ front ’ region : one which can only be fully appreciated by actually moving and becoming part of it . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is , I think , salutary that the judge who is called upon to construe statutory language should ask himself whether the meaning that is urged upon him is one which can fairly be drawn by a person of reasonable intelligence ordinarily conversant with the English language . |
| 15 | A trick , certainly ; in a sense too , a trick which results in a form of self-incrimination ; but not one which could reasonably be thought to involve unfairness . |
| 16 | The single-track section of line would have given me cause for concern and it is one which could reasonably be removed . ’ |
| 17 | For example , hoverflies appear to compute their interception paths with conspecifics according to a simply specifiable rule , one which could plausibly be ‘ hard-wired ’ into the flies ' brains ( Collett & Land 1978 ) . |
| 18 | It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry . |
| 19 | For many Keynesians , and certainly Keynes himself , the celebrated ‘ problem of money wages ’ was essentially one which could only be tackled on a political as opposed to an economic front . |
| 20 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 21 | It was an enchanting and heady experience , and one which could hardly be other than irresistible : a delightful upbringing for the future queen consort of France , but not one which at first sight looks like adequate preparation for the future queen regnant of Scotland . |