Example sentences of "[adv] one [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore one may remark on the fact that that which is considered ‘ feminine ’ , which the male also now takes on , corresponds simply to what have traditionally been women 's tasks ( nurturing and caring ) .
2 One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum .
3 Always one must look to the future . ’
4 It is important to understand that the ratio decidendi of a particular case is not wholly to be found in the case itself ; rather one must look to the way in which later courts interpret the case .
5 There are difficulties in identifying areas common to the brains of people and other animals and , even when that can be done , it is unclear how far one can rely on the areas working in exactly the same way .
6 Now one can speak of the development of autonomous ‘ life-orders ’ or ‘ value-spheres ’ , and in particular of the eighteenth-century autonomization of theoretical , ethical , and aesthetic spheres .
7 Beethoven is unthinkable without the tradition of western music , indeed one might say without the very specific background of late eighteenth-century music in Vienna .
8 There may well be a modest marble tombstone for Mr Dowd somewhere in Saratoga Springs ; but each time the television continuity announcer advertises a forthcoming programme as showing at ‘ 9 pm Eastern , 8 Central and Mountain ’ then one might say of the late Professor , si monumentum requiris , circumspice .
9 In the sense of working together on common tasks partnership is a banal truism — of course both central and local government are involved in education , housing , transport , social services etc. but having said that there is little else one can say under the umbrella of partnership .
10 Instead one would work to the lowest common skill denominator — the basis of modernist organization — and minimize the costs of labour turnover not through minimizing the labour transfers but through minimizing training costs and skills .
11 Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist .
12 Occasionally one could dispense with the bran and undersheet and purchase a tailored mattress ; likewise the sides could be padded and buttoned and a pillow provided .
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