The phrase "a pervasive one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is widespread or commonly found in a particular context or situation.
Example: "The influence of social media is a pervasive one in modern communication, affecting how we interact with each other."
Alternatives: "a widespread phenomenon" or "a common occurrence".
If you only drink one drink, how come you always end up having to buy everyone a round?" It's a good question, and a pervasive one, especially during the holiday season, or during uncertain economic times.
(The idea of love as a combative game or as dramatic theater — "It's a spiel," squeals Mr. Reischl, using the German word for "play" at one point — is a pervasive one).
The image of the sophisticated New Yorker swilling Cosmopolitans with a smoke in hand is a pervasive one for Amber Gardenho, 25, who was visiting from Wellington, New Zealand.
The actual phenomenon being described by the term is a rather pervasive one, with a whole array of nasty effects on our discourse.
But there's a belief here—a dangerous and pervasive one, I think that any racial prejudice tamer than snarling dogs, fire hoses, and "Whites Only" signs isn't really racism, but something ingrained in a lost culture, something not malicious or active, but embedded, covert, and therefore forgivable.
But there's a belief here – a dangerous and pervasive one, I think – that any racial prejudice tamer than snarling dogs, fire hoses, and "Whites Only" signs isn't really racism, but something ingrained in a lost culture, something not malicious or active, but embedded, covert, and therefore forgivable.
The culture of corruption is a tough and pervasive one to combat, particularly in a war zone.
My Red Sox malaise, if anything, stems from the opposite problem: the growth of a national brand so strong that its particulars are only compelling when opposed to those of an even more dominant and pervasive one.
The problems are so pervasive, one Western diplomat said, that almost everyone is affected.
"Human influence is pretty pervasive," one of the authors, Torben C. Rick of the National Museum of Natural History, part of the Smithsonian Institution, said in an interview.
The perception that housing benefit recipients are jobless (and presumably therefore feckless and unreliable) is an pervasive myth, one encouraged by the "scrounger" rhetoric of the media and ministers alike.
