Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 16 | The fascination of the piece comes when one starts to compare positive and negative , or outside to inside . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Every species has its own intricate behaviour repertoire of survival mechanisms and even the seemingly boring species soon become exciting when one starts to probe into their particular way of life . |
| 19 | You know , you 're at the side of them and one starts to come around , you know , when you 're doing sort of seventy and I 'm at maximum speed , he 's got plenty of you |
| 20 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 21 | Perhaps , one starts to think , the 40-overs beast was actually quite a friendly animal after all , and should not need to follow other endangered species into extinction . |
| 22 | Because as soon as one starts to think about it seriously it 's obvious . |
| 23 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman well knows that there has been a dramatic increase in national health service spending on any measure one cares to take , far and above the amount necessary either to keep pace with the general level of inflation or to keep pace with the level of inflation in medical costs . |
| 25 | It is even harder to imagine his reaction , in light of his long imprisonment , to the authoritative comment of The Times on the Bedford Bunyan Festival : ‘ No one cares to remember whether the author of the most fascinating allegory that ever struck despair into the souls of imitators was a Dissenter . ’ |
| 26 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 27 | To examine whether or not this is so one needs to ask three questions . |
| 28 | As always with statistics , one needs to ask what exactly is being counted , and for what purpose . |
| 29 | We wonder what attainment level of today 's national curriculum one needs to reach before spotting that these are howlers . |
| 30 | It is not particularly difficult to get rose cuttings to sprout roots , and to suggest that that is all one needs to do to raise new plants of any and all roses is to mislead by disregarding why all the trouble is taken to propagate H.T.s , Floribundas and many more by budding and , less often , by grafting . |