Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ . |
| 2 | Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse . |
| 3 | However , when one turns to the year-by-year figures in Table 2 , the picture , even for that period , becomes more variable . |
| 4 | If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent . |
| 5 | When the Opéra revived Gluck 's Armide on 31 December 1799 , the composer C.H. Plantade ‘ read and reread ’ the score in preparation one thinks of the young Berlioz . |
| 6 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 7 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 8 | One thinks of the familiar nostalgia for ‘ roots ’ which makes the children of assimilated , secularised and anglicised Jews rediscover comfort in the ancestral rituals , and sentimentalise the memories of the shtetl , which they have never known . |
| 9 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 10 | One thinks of the feminist cartoon of the three wise men arriving at Bethlehem , one saying to the others , with down-turned mouth : ‘ Its a girl ! ’ |
| 11 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 12 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 13 | They will not be named until publication of details in an academic journal , but the second one belongs with the lesser dung flies in the Sphaeroceridae family : ‘ a lovely little group , ’ he added . |
| 14 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 15 | However once one goes outside the immediate hierarchy of industrial relationships the symbolic implication of monetary payments becomes much more difficult to decipher . |
| 16 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 17 | If one looks beyond the surviving lists of fees to less formal evidence of affiliation , more instances of continuity are to be found . |
| 18 | If one looks beyond the surviving lists of fees to less formal evidence of affiliation , more instances of continuity are to be found . |
| 19 | If one looks beyond the picturesque formula for the foregrounds of figures , animals or rocks to the hills , lakes or sky , the prints have a delicacy and personality all of their own . |
| 20 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 21 | If one looks at the early development of vertebrae it becomes clearer just how segmental much of our own early development is . |
| 22 | Even if one looks at the political structure of England one can see the division , and there is no doubt that political dominance was heavily weighted in favour of the South and the Midlands . |
| 23 | So the more closely one looks at the criminal statistics the more complicated and problematic they become . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend reflect on the mirror image of those charges , when one looks at the Liberal Democrat and Labour party Front-Bench spokesmen to see how many come from Scottish constituencies and frequently and regularly speak on purely English matters ? |
| 25 | If one looks at the international scene — as any university or special librarian must — the range of choice is further amplified , especially since publishing in the Third World is expanding very quickly . |
| 26 | It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed . |
| 27 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |
| 28 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 29 | What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message . |
| 30 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |