Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 32 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 33 | Nowhere is this more impressive than on the Dean Bridge at sunset , when one looks over the deep valley of the Water of Leith and sees the glistening windows of Moray Place and Ainslie Place . |
| 34 | there 's usually two racing together in this one , but they 're in separate tracks and one starts at the outside track |
| 35 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 36 | Of these , the slowest moving one corresponds to the covalent DNA / protein adduct , as evident from its position in the gel ( compare lanes 1 and 2 , which again display the product of the reaction illustrated in Figure 5 ) and also by the effect of sinefungin addition ( compare lanes 3 and 4 ) . |
| 37 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 38 | One lies in the individual case where transmissible defect exists within the family and genetic probability of its occurrence is increased by interbreeding . |
| 39 | From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ionic colonnade and a central fountain . |
| 40 | One of these is the main doorway , one leads to the apsidal altar chamber and the others to side entrances . |
| 41 | Because different lenses are used for different purposes ( for example , a wide-angle lens gets more visual information on-screen than a close-up lens ) , even in straightforward recording , it could be argued that any photographic image is already a distortion of what one sees in the real world . |
| 42 | The impression one gets from the various accounts , however , is of a remarkable uniformity of depth from some writers , and of far less uniformity from others . |
| 43 | For example , although it is easy enough to decide which vowel one hears in ‘ beat ’ or ‘ bit ’ , it is much less easy to decide which vowel one hears in the second syllable of words such as , for example , ‘ easy ’ or ‘ busy ’ . |
| 44 | Whatever view one takes of the electoral fortunes of the Liberal and Labour Parties before 1914 , the Conservative party was clearly losing — three general election defeats in a row and no significant signs of an electoral revival . |
| 45 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 46 | Instead one finds in the small works a straightforward enjoyment of the sea and sailing which , while they are no doubt less important in terms of Setch 's output as a whole , give a significant insight into his everyday appreciation of the coastal sea and weather . |
| 47 | The following are examples of the petty attempts at subversion which one finds in the old books on election law . |
| 48 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 49 | What is consoling is that one may be perfectly sure that if one perishes in the barbed wire , they will not be too much affected by the loss . |
| 50 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 51 | So , in general , I think we should be as sceptical er and critical of any of these proposed changes and the key point of course was the at the lack of accountability , but there 'll be even less accountability one suspects in the new consortium . |
| 52 | The specificity of this form of violence or coercion has to be recognized , however one feels about the terrible consequences of it for the innocent . |
| 53 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 54 | Now one of these texts speaks about the Holy Ghost and the other one speaks about the Holy Spirit . |
| 55 | There may be a number of reasons for this , but a very likely one relates to the whole question of our treatment of people within the community who are different . |
| 56 | One recoils from the obvious answer , which is that the Home Secretary wants yet again to produce a cheap headline in the popular press such as ’ Crackdown on crime ’ , by producing , as the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said , a modest and short Bill . |
| 57 | If one follows through the possible implications of this , one comes to the thought that perhaps language should be presented , to learners primarily in lexical terms , setting conditions for the gradual emergence of syntax as a focusing device — the very converse of conventional practice . |
| 58 | If one leans towards the former view , it is not to belittle the other . |
| 59 | It 's when one moves into the first person that problems occur . |
| 60 | As one moves from the liberal state of competitive capitalism to the totalitarian state of monopoly capitalism in crisis , the state becomes more bureaucratized , the extent of bureaucratization varying according to the form of regime and the relationship between state apparatuses . |