Example sentences of "[conj] one [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Examples are too numerous to list , but a particularly telling one from members of our own profession , where one might expect some awareness , can serve .
2 Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive .
3 Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain .
4 It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time .
5 If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located .
6 Not that one would get that impression from the announcement made by WTA after the formal statement by the WIPTC that the constitution of the Council would remain unchanged , at least until current contracts expire at the end of 1994 .
7 Although conceding , in a footnote , that one may use extrabiblical material to ‘ illuminate scripture ’ , her basic stance is to grant to the text the status of a self-contained entity .
8 For once I drank no wine with my meal ; it would have helped considerably , if I had but known , but it seemed wrong that one should need artificial stimulus .
9 I do not share my hon. Friend 's contention that one should support national wage bargaining .
10 The Fen country around Coton was very flat , with water-filled dykes instead of hedges , and few trees , so that one could see long distances without the view being obstructed — ‘ right to the horizon , ’ Cheryl reported excitedly to her mummy in one of her letters home .
11 I was assured that one could discuss any aspect of the Queen 's Speech .
12 It could be that one could use cannabis-related compounds to deal with disorders of those phenomena , like memory and so on . ’
13 They will have an unrestrained fight ; let us suppose that one will suffer serious injury first and be the loser , and that on average a hawk has an equal chance of winning or losing .
14 I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque .
15 It 's just that one can tell these things , Cassie .
16 The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance .
17 In the GDR , by contrast , one can not talk of ‘ economic crisis ’ in the sense that one can use that term for Poland , the Soviet Union , and even for Hungary .
18 It would be impossible administratively to place a higher tax on a given item for those with higher incomes although one could impose indirect taxes mainly on the goods and services consumed by higher-income groups , and perhaps at higher rates .
19 Although one can say good riddance to it , I do not wish there to be a return to the past , as the Opposition propose .
20 Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects .
21 The answer to that question depends in part on how sensitive the results are to the specification of the model , and one can view this Lecture as being directed towards throwing light on this issue .
22 My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own .
23 The illustrations are particularly well chosen and one can find high-quality photographs of many of the key fossils and geological structures , such as Burgess Shale fossils , fossil and living stromatolites or the Laetoli fossil footprints .
24 And one can follow those changes step by step through the fossil record erm including some rather nice fossils we now have which have both jaw articulations in parallel .
25 ‘ The repeated testing is leading to problems in that animals now associate being put in a crush with being tested and one can get considerable stress in older animals .
26 One approaches the west façade of the cathedral up steep flights of steps and the triple entrance porch leads , not into the nave due to the steepness of the hillside , but below it and one must ascend further steps inside to reach the nave above the porch .
27 Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos .
28 One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises .
29 If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways .
30 ‘ In some ways , they are usually well organised , although I think that one of the features of the indie scene , if one can use that expression , is that bands are used to doing a lot of basic things for themselves .
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