Example sentences of "one [modal v] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
2 | One should certainly look at the following poems : |
3 | APPROACHING SOME of the more forbidding coasts of Scotland in a modern vessel , one must surely marvel at the temerity of those prehistoric voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats and refused to be deterred by lowering cliffs or storm-lashed , perilous rocks . |
4 | Almost , but erm one could certainly arrive at a situation of the sort you 're imagining that we want to be sure that when we look at some very exotic phenomena in the past of the universe , which has no parallel on earth , erm or in our vicinity , how can we be sure that the laws of physics that we 've deduced on earth really apply ? |
5 | This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved . |
6 | One will not arrive at the concept ‘ mass ’ through observation alone , however closely one scrutinizes colliding billiard-balls , weights on springs , orbiting planets , etc. , nor is it possible to teach others the meaning of mass merely by pointing to such events . |
7 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
8 | Smith ( 1984 , ix ) , for example , argues ‘ one can hardly look at the world today without perceiving that , at the hands of capital , the last two decades have witnessed an emergent restructuring of geographical space more dramatic than any before ’ , instancing de-industrialization and regional decline , changes in the distribution of population in metropolitan areas , and the nascent industrialization of the Third World . |
9 | One can only guess at the reasons for such underreporting ; but it seems possible that exporters understate values in the hope of retaining part of the foreign exchange that they would otherwise be obliged to surrender to the authorities , while importers may wish to minimize their import duties ( and also avoid enquiries into the source of the foreign exchange used for imports ) . |
10 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
11 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
12 | One can only marvel at the wisdom of the U.S. government in enabling the Freer to make itself over . |