Example sentences of "one is [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is , for example , some sort of commentary on our times that , if one is content to stick to theology , with some Greek and Latin texts thrown in , it is possible to assemble a representative collection from the sixteenth century onwards .
2 No one is willing to go on record with their feelings about Hamnett 's sometimes capricious behaviour , but one says privately : ‘ Like many creative people , she can be impossible to reason with , and the experience can be very painful . ’
3 Perhaps worst of all , there are those stressful situations where one is accustomed to turn to tobacco for support .
4 Individual approaches recognize either the school or the classroom as the significant unit for change and ideally take both into account , for change in one is unlikely to happen without change in the other ( Easen , 1985 ; Slater , 1985 ) .
5 In Weber 's terms , office legitimizes power in the sense of the decisions affecting and determining the behaviour of others that one is entitled to take by virtue of occupying an official position with a designated jurisdiction .
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