Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 2 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 3 | It is unrealistic , if as a teacher , one insists on two t's in the best time . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I know it 's a dodgy topic , ’ some one remarks in Amis 's Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , ‘ but you are lower class , are n't you , darling ? ’ ; to which the admirably candid reply is : |
| 5 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ . |
| 7 | They are just the means by which one refers to clusters . |
| 8 | In fact , of one refers to the practices of Muhammad , which are the main Muslim Texts , one sees that they deal as much with politics , government , the struggle against tyrants , as with prayers . " |
| 9 | When one refers to something already mentioned : The year had been one of great political unrest . |
| 10 | ‘ The second one refers to the serpent entering Eden . ’ |
| 11 | This one refers to an article by Mr Sydney Breeze on operating practices in the Severn Tunnel in steam days . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that in cases of blackmail one refers to Mr. X. Surely in a similar case such as this one , it would be fairer to the individual involved to refer to him or her as Mr. , Mrs. , Miss or Ms. X. |
| 13 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 14 | Note that it is also quite possible for the gestural usage to combine with the non-deictic anaphoric usage too : ( 41 ) I cut a finger : this one Here this one refers to whatever a finger refers to , but simultaneously must be accompanied by a presentation of the relevant finger . |
| 15 | I think this , this one refers to Blind does n't it . |
| 16 | At first blush the analysis outlined above possesses considerable intuitive appeal , but the further one delves into the arguments that lie at its core , the more profoundly disturbing are its conclusions . |
| 17 | What one understands to be the use of computers in spectroscopy is very much a matter of personal prejudice , and care must be taken to avoid being misled by a general title such as this . |
| 18 | No one understands about Mars — ’ |
| 19 | One understands from these films why critic Gavin Lambert remarked of his departure from England in 1956 that the country ‘ really seemed in the doldrums , like it had lost the war almost . ’ |
| 20 | If one understands by this an explicit order to launch an invasion , the answer would appear to be no . |
| 21 | Whether or not one agrees with Oakeshott 's position , it represents a sophisticated defence of the imperfectionist argument for a ‘ limited politics ’ , and it certainly warrants more consideration than Honderich provides . |
| 22 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 23 | Even if one agrees with Aristotle that true equality consists in treating unequals unequally , this merely raises the apparently insoluble question of how it can be practically achieved . |
| 24 | Whether one agrees with this or not depends , of course , on how one defines " pornography " . |
| 25 | One points to an alternative next member of the compound . |
| 26 | He then makes the kind of silly gaffe — getting his hair cut while Air Force One sits at Los Angeles airport , closing down two runways — that will be the stuff of jokes about him for as long as he is in public life . |
| 27 | Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse . |
| 28 | Well you know how the , those gutters one sits on the other at the joint do n't they , and they used to fill it with er putty did n't they and |
| 29 | The oldest one sits beside me . |
| 30 | They do not provide an explanation of how one turns into the other . |