Example sentences of "if one [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’ |
3 | If one compares the latest exhibition at the Pushkin with those of the 1970s , the differences are only too obvious : then it was still possible in Odessa to buy a signed landscape by Jacob van Ruysdael ; several of Matisse 's works from his widow , or ( and it would be interesting to know for how much ) two pictures from the school of Pieter Coeck van Aelst . |
4 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
5 | Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better . |
6 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
7 | The difference between these two uses of syndromes becomes clear if one considers the following situation : suppose , after years of finding that , every time a patient exhibits symptom x , symptoms y and z are also exhibited , a patient comes along who has symptom x but not symptom y . |
8 | Indeed , if one considers the whole century , a surprising number of the heavily represented poets remained largely unaffected by changes in fashion , among them , Mary Leapor , Mary Jones , Esther Lewis , Susanna Blamire , Elizabeth Hands , and Joanna Baillie . |
9 | If one observes the horizontal projection of the motion for just one or two periods then one sees a quite well-defined orbit ; one can say whether the bob is moving on a circular , elliptical or linear path , how big this is , and how , for an ellipse or line , it is oriented . |
10 | If one believes the second conjunct , one must invoke an unusual explanation for the sounds emanating from my mouth . |
11 | If one extrapolates the low-energy rate of increase and decrease of the coupling constants , one finds that the two coupling constants become equal at an energy of about 10 15 GeV . |
12 | It can come as a shock if one sees the tiny scale of monsters or creatures that appear quite huge on-screen . |
13 | One can lose a sense of perspective , too , if one overlooks the positive side of Catholic educational programs . |
14 | By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high . |
15 | If one has the legal estate , one is empowered and privileged to do anything in relation to the land which the culture of the time , as represented and interpreted by the judiciary , accords to an " owner of land " . |
16 | This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods . |
17 | If one accepts the golden rule , this involves rejecting Lord Diplock 's opinion that the inexpediency , injustice or immorality of the proposed application of the statute can not in itself be a reason for finding an ambiguity in the statute . |