Example sentences of "one would [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It meant that all one had to do was to go on contacting enough people and one would make the necessary sales . |
| 2 | Such a pretty yet elegant pressed flower picture as this one would make an ideal gift for a girl 's eighteenth birthday , especially if it matches the decor of her bedroom . |
| 3 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 4 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
| 5 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
| 6 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 7 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 8 | one would expect a large variation in the fluency with which teachers can instruct in sign language ; many would have had no more than a relatively short course . |
| 9 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 10 | From the marked rise in the electrical conductivity of these saturated carbon-bearing samples as temperature and pressure increase , one would expect a high sample conductivity under lower-crustal conditions . |
| 11 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 12 | Using high copy number Long transgenics , one would expect a copy-dependent signal in the DNase I hypersensitivity assay . |
| 13 | In view of the fact that eradication of H pylori infection noticeably lowers postprandial G17 concentrations , one would expect an accompanying decrease in meal stimulated acid secretion . |
| 14 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 15 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 16 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 17 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 18 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 19 | One would expect the older Wordsworth to trot out the arguments of the Established Church at this point : instead he says he does |
| 20 | Similarly , a priori one would expect the same effect in TV , possibly over about 30 seconds . |
| 21 | This may not be covered in the initial simple descriptions of the portfolio grids , but one would expect the underlying risk analysis to include such matters . |
| 22 | No one would send a small child to the theatre to watch Macbeth or Othello alone , yet many children watch scenes of violence on the screen in their own home . |
| 23 | One would like the additional information to be conclusive so that the success or failure of the project could be predicted with certainty . |
| 24 | One would like the additional information to be conclusive so that the success or failure of the project could be predicted with certainty . |
| 25 | The malais were n't fools — they knew no one would buy a uniform screed . |
| 26 | There are no natural boundaries between property price regions , so let us assume that one would use the standard regions — the south-east , the east midlands , the west midlands and so on . |
| 27 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 28 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 29 | If tables could talk , I imagine this one would have a few tales to tell for it is here she has enjoyed repasts with such gossipy Sloanes as Carolyn Bartholomew , Kate Menzies and Millie Dunne . |
| 30 | To unblock the well or drill a new one would require a new allocation of foreign aid . |