Example sentences of "one that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's the alembick of the age — one that might blow up in all our faces , and yet … |
2 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
3 | His meaning was clear , and she knew the choice before her was a momentous one , one that might change the whole course of her life . |
4 | Not a defence that could stop thousands of missiles , but one that might deal with a few terror weapons lobbed around the planet by third-world undesirables . |
5 | A visit to a different universe — one that might help you understand what I 'm getting at ? ’ |
6 | All the sudden excitement in the US among AT&T Co , MCI Communications Corp and Sprint Corp about toll-free 800 number business is that from this weekend , the numbers become portable so that subscribers can change from a carrier they do n't like to one that might appeal more , without changing the number . |
7 | The first one that might occur to him is to manufacture light , to use a lantern or a searchlight . |
8 | Whatever the answer may be , it is certain that we are dealing with an extremely strange reaction here , and one that might repay much greater attention . |
9 | It is a perspective that Freeman in his criticism of Mead totally failed to appreciate , and one that might have reduced the savagery of his attack . |
10 | The historian 's first and final duty , however , remains the explanation of the world that was , rather than the one that might have been . |
11 | It is not only a difficult job to attempt to integrate these but also one that might have opposition from users who would prefer to keep to a successful , if limited , system . |
12 | Let's do one that might sound . |
13 | well , and he 's the one that 'll make the decision I think cos he 's got hold of the money . |
14 | One that 'll save our lives . |
15 | They rang on Saturday morning to say the repair to the tractor 'll be three thousand and that 's the only one that 'll take the big plough . |
16 | The case of the ‘ pinocheques ’ is not the only case of apparent corruption that has come to light since the general left power , though it is the one that may touch him directly . |
17 | Tail arched and bristled This is the signal of a defensive cat , but one that may attack if provoked further . |
18 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
19 | Among them is one that would lift restrictions on the voting rights of shares . |
20 | They ( and East Germany 's communists ) argued throughout the election campaign for a slower road to unity , one that would give East Germans the chance to negotiate some safeguards for their livelihoods . |
21 | He persuaded the Board in 1970 to recognise that a new kind of qualification was now required , one that would give status to the more ‘ creative ’ approach to drama in schools . |
22 | In answer to his question , the right hon. Gentleman knows very well that the commitment to income tax is one that would extend over the lifetime of the future Parliament and perhaps beyond that . |
23 | The policy and resources committee would have subcommittees looking at finance , staffing and land , and one that would review and monitor spending programmes to see that they were achieving results economically — a performance and review subcommittee . |
24 | Working among books was , on the face of it , a ladylike occupation , Mrs Broome had thought , and one that would bring her daughter into contact with a refined , intellectual type of person . |
25 | ‘ Not one that would stand up in court . ’ |
26 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
27 | The SSC is designed to probe those high energies , and thus to make possible the creation of a grander theory , one that would contain the standard model but also surpass it . |
28 | The house had an existence of its own , one that would outlive hers . |
29 | It was just a memory now , one that would stay with her forever . |
30 | ‘ He 's very ambitious — would like to make our two practices into one large one that would control all this area and perhaps beyond . |