Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the war , despite tremendous efforts at expansion , the personnel of the French airforces totalled no more than 13,000 ( to get an idea of the aces ' prospects of survival , one may compare with this total the figures of 3,500 men killed in combat ; 2,000 killed on training alone ; and another 3,000 injured in flying accidents ) . |
| 2 | Wittgenstein says : ‘ Instead of ‘ I know it ’ one may say in some cases ‘ That 's how it is — rely upon it ’ . ’ |
| 3 | I believe eleven should clarify that in view of the regional planning guidance , in view of the comments made by Leeds , er that it should one should state under this criteria that the new settlement should not be located on the south west side of York . |
| 4 | De Sade said that if one wants to know about death one should look at sexual excitement . |
| 5 | However semantic change often gives an unexpected bonus , which one should accept in this case as in others . |
| 6 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 7 | There are other arguments that have been made along the same general lines , to the effect that to capture regular processes ( e.g. syntactic regularities ) one must refer to pragmatic concepts ( see e.g. Ross , 1975 ) , arguments that will arise from time to time in the Chapters below . |
| 8 | It was mentioned earlier that one must distinguish between economic efficiency and cost-cutting . |
| 9 | While one must distinguish between formal access and real accessibility , there are more second routes and second chances , and fewer dead-ends and irreversible choices than in the past , and the whole notion of ‘ stages ’ has to be interpreted in the light of the individual 's self-perception and the increasing fluidity of age-roles . |
| 10 | In the absence of locally based population studies , combined social work/GP screening etc , one must plan on general guidelines . |
| 11 | ‘ The basic thing one must understand about these decisions is that they are desperately disturbing and agonising for the parents . |
| 12 | Then , fastening his zip , he said , ‘ One must trust to that star in man which is the visionary imagination . |
| 13 | And one must add to this information on the very recent history of the price level the plethora of informed predictions by economic pundits of the likely future course of the price level . |
| 14 | The same method can not be used for a polymer and one must resort to comparative techniques . |
| 15 | There is little enough of that in the outback and one must search for alternative modes of expression , perhaps among the varieties of modern art which have taught us to see in different ways . |
| 16 | To understand how his new stance was formulated , one must search for implicit features in the previous stance , when his target was the English monarchy . |
| 17 | Finally , one must look for some representation in accounts of the personal style deemed appropriate in an encounter in a given type of situation . |
| 18 | To understand why he was willing to take such an immense risk with his own reputation as well as with France 's future , one must look beyond personal ambition . |
| 19 | One might suggest at this point that the level and module metaphors are not really opposed , because there could be a module that did the translation between the uppermost level and the one below it , and so on downwards . |
| 20 | One might conclude from these cases that the collateral attack exception is simply a restatement of the public right/private right distinction . |
| 21 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 22 | One might start by repeating examples done by previous mental-art-scientists to get the feel of what it 's about , but since each brain is complexly different from the next , so its expression has to be complexly different and one must soon press on with one 's own structures — and yet there is the universal bond of molecular structure , which is another way of saying " form/art is everywhere " . |
| 23 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 24 | This is only as one might expect -at all times and in all places — for it is always a problem in art history or archaeology to know to what degree certain persons can be held responsible for the appearance of particular aspects of design ( especially where one is dealing with aspects of arrangement , structure , and figural types ) . |
| 25 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 26 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 27 | Similarly , if one is being asked a series of routine questions for some purpose such as applying for an insurance policy , one might reply to each question of a series like ‘ Have you ever been in prison ? ’ , |
| 28 | One might answer in this case that it is also a typical feature of speech , so should probably be analysed as a contraction and for this reason avoided in academic writing — even if one accepts the idea of a regional/class standard . |
| 29 | Some laws which one might imagine on wilder flights of fancy might well be refused this cooperation . |
| 30 | One might write at some length on the implications of libidinal fixation in the ways in which people regard and handle finance ( the interested reader is recommended to the work of Freudian and neo-Freudian writers in this respect ) while the symbolic connection of financial success and power with sexual puissance and virility , or the part which is played by earning and providing in terms of masculine role-fulfilment , will be reasonably evident . |