Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one turns to look at the statute that governs the practice on the criminal side , section 23 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : |
| 2 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 3 | One needs to build upon the foundations of cost-accounting , not escape from it . |
| 4 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 5 | The problem here is that , for good compositional reasons , one needs to keep in a section of the curve of the walkway to the right . |
| 6 | The problem here is that , for good compositional reasons , one needs to keep in a section of the curve into the picture , however subtle this may be , one is faced with the problem of people . |
| 7 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 8 | One has to do with the fact that many theories in social science are not so much theories susceptible to straightforward empirical confirmation or refutation , but are more like points of view . |
| 9 | Given this limitation therefore , one has to rely on an interpretation of the relationships between the mosaics themselves . |
| 10 | Here one has to rely on the indices produced by survey techniques , which do not provide ambiguous definitions and which are open to a variety of interpretations but which nonetheless do provide a starting point for analysis . |
| 11 | In the first case , with a dependent text , one has to allow for the exercise of schematic knowledge which will to some degree lead to the bypassing of language and the avoidance of inference . |
| 12 | performing of street lighting er equipment , has to be conducted on site of basis , we have a system of scouting , the whole County is covered by paid scouts who every so often do a tour of their big network of units to ensure that there is , now one has to allow within the response time for the next cycle of |
| 13 | IN ORDER to find a precedent for the Tories ' four consecutive election vic tories one has to return to the politics of Regency England . |
| 14 | In the end one has to err on the plus side , if only because ‘ The Curse ’ has the ability to knock preconceptions into a cocked hat and it makes the gigs sound like they were bloody good fun . |
| 15 | It 's with not knowing how one is that one has to go to the banks and so on . |
| 16 | It is more a standard , a form of self-reliance , a determination that if one has to go in the end , better be correctly dressed . |
| 17 | One has to distinguish between the individual and the practice . |
| 18 | If one is seriously to provide catechesis for those handicapped in mind as well as body , one has to think through the implications . |
| 19 | In order to spell , one has to combine both kinds of sequence , one has to think of the syllables in the word in the correct order and remember them and remember how far you got , and also remember the sequence of visual symbols , i.e. letters on paper . |
| 20 | Even in a school one has to think of a very large number of different pupils with their own different characteristics and strengths and weaknesses , and one has to operate in a classroom and to a timetable and with given resources , and so on and so forth , and the combination of all these pressures and the ways that one has got used to handling them , on the whole , is what makes a person teach the way they do . |
| 21 | It follows therefore , does it not , that one has to look at the characteristics of the land you now propose to take out of the greenbelt , in the same way as the land immediately to the north , which you propose should remain . |
| 22 | But we employ thirty thousand people and therefore one has to look after the majority , however hard it may be on a relatively few — one thousand people in that particular case . |
| 23 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 24 | There may be some discontinuity in policy occasioned by governments of different political persuasions pursuing different paths , but that is the price — an acceptable price — one has to pay for the advantages offered by the existing system . |
| 25 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 26 | A separate toilet is ideal because , if you do have people to stay , it is less of a problem if one wants to go to the toilet while someone else is having a bath . |
| 27 | Those hon. Members who are told by the Whips that their loyalty , obedience and voting record will all be taken into account may rest assured that those things are , indeed , taken into account , but in a totally different way from what one is led to believe if one wants to speak in the House from either Front Bench . |
| 28 | Of course , no one wants to hear about the failures : it is not such interesting reading ! |
| 29 | ‘ No one wants to hear about the troubles of the elderly . ’ |
| 30 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |