Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PADDY Ashdown has warned that the Liberal Democrats will not join a coalition with either Labour or the Tories in the event of a hung Parliament , unless one agrees to introduce proportional representation . |
| 2 | When one turns to consider cases where a pre-existing duty imposed by law is alleged to be valid consideration for a promise , one finds cases in which public policy has been held to invalidate the consideration . |
| 3 | So one turns to look at the statute that governs the practice on the criminal side , section 23 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : |
| 4 | I 've got shares in the company , but no one thinks to let me know when it 's sinking without trace ! ’ |
| 5 | Would the MEB , one dares to ask , have funded the News-on-Sunday or Today and what criteria would it have used to justify its support ? |
| 6 | But no one dares to say that the parents are paying the price of schooling because the government has neglected education . |
| 7 | Evelyn Waugh is also free with his advice , this time on how to move in well-informed circles : ‘ introduce quite unknown names with such an air of authority that no one dares challenge you ’ , or ask frequent obscure linguistic questions , for instance , ‘ Tell me , is much demotic Armenian spoken in Cairo now ? ’ |
| 8 | No one dares ask whether any of it is worthwhile or could be done far more cheaply . |
| 9 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
| 10 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 11 | One involves throwing a ball for a player to head while another one hurls a medicine ball into his back ! |
| 12 | One involves incorporating dUTP instead of dTTP into reaction products . |
| 13 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 14 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 15 | No , do n't think that one goes does it ? |
| 16 | If one goes to answer your question , to the top end of the range being put before you , the effect will be to release probably more than a thousand acres of greenfield land er for housing development purposes . |
| 17 | ‘ So he does n't mind too much if one goes missing ? ’ |
| 18 | Humiliating reverses and exorbitant costs combined to amplify the message of the pacifist so that by the end of Edward 's reign wherever one looks disillusion with war has displaced the zestful and righteous belligerence of the earlier years ; now preachers , poets , chroniclers and prelates utter words which are gloomy and despondent . |
| 19 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
| 20 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 21 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 22 | Thus Lord Bridge 's guiding principle could properly be expanded to read ‘ one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question and where he has done it . ’ |
| 23 | There , an Inspector Fusco pleads for men to be returned to beat patrol from community projects , for these he realizes are ‘ an admirable aspiration , until one starts to notice that community involvement officers come to work to spend much of their time in track suits or jeans and tee shirts , and some grow longer hair and beards and mix with the locals ’ . |
| 24 | But once one starts looking at such headings , questions arise . |
| 25 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 26 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , but one starts training housemaids and cooks at twelve and thirteen , ’ said Miss Mates gently , but at the same time she was thinking of her own problems in finding and keeping satisfactory girls , and Miss McAllister looked both strong and willing . |
| 28 | The fascination of the piece comes when one starts to compare positive and negative , or outside to inside . |
| 29 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 30 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |