Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum . |
| 2 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 3 | In that case one might hope to account for the working of the system without enquiring into the internal organization of the units . |
| 4 | Er one wonders how on earth they speak to each other , or if indeed they even know who each other is or where their offices are and there is n't that personal relationship that one might expect to find in the normal concept of a legal firm and indeed er without clearly we go to off the point somewhat to have a discussion as to whether or not er a partnership is a suitable legal entity for these people to trade under . |
| 5 | It is only when one supposes that , as well as such ideas , there is either ‘ extension in abstract ’ or extended , external , material things which might have parts we can not perceive , that one might come to believe in the infinite divisibility of finite extension . |
| 6 | His wife said to him , ‘ This one 'll have to go on the back seat . |
| 7 | No one could begin to agree on the answer . |
| 8 | Six towns of different sizes were selected for the research , representing different regions , different traffic situations and thus together representing the diversity of problems that one would expect to find across the country . |
| 9 | These vast walls were slashed across with bizarre colours like some monstrous oil-painting … it was the kind of valley one would expect to find in the exotic landscape of a dead planet ’ . |
| 10 | Different stars have different spectra , but the relative brightness of the different colours is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot . |
| 11 | Now and again one would try to expostulate with the man in white but it was no good ; nobody was listening . |
| 12 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 13 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 14 | Secondly , we may well doubt that the reconciliation of opposites is really a sound principle for defining poetry , whether it is truly applicable to all the texts one would wish to include under the heading of poetry or good literature . |
| 15 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 16 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 17 | A drawback to this plan was the weather — that is to say , several large puddles and patches of mud were in evidence — and the fact that one would need to return to the billiard room again at some point to bolt the french windows from the inside . |
| 18 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 19 | In order to do this one would need to know about the nature of land rights in that particular society and about the organisation of writing within central bureaucracy , and not just about the different functions of written and spoken language in general . |
| 20 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 21 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |