Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 2 | These and a hundred other scenes one may witness at the departure of an important train such as this . |
| 3 | To overcome this barrier , I suggest , one must look at the approach in action ; only then will it be possible to see what it has achieved , and to assess what it might achieve if taken on its own terms . |
| 4 | One must look at the quality of life that diabetics and their carers have . |
| 5 | Or that one must approach at an angle of attack of precisely 10 degrees , and attain exactly 18 degrees on take-off ? |
| 6 | On the first floor one might sit at a table overlooking the Bay while enjoying a Swanage lobster salad or a delicious cream tea . |
| 7 | And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up . |
| 8 | She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed . |
| 9 | In the modern world , for instance , one might look at the development of the personification of Britannia as an index of the growing imperialism of Britain ( fig. 20 ) . |
| 10 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 11 | Reviewing a biography by Phyllis Willmott of social work administrator Geraldine Aves , he threw out an impressively succinct characterisation of the Seebohm Report , which , as one might say at a BASW workshop , I want to share with you . |
| 12 | This did not surprise me , since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency . |
| 13 | In general terms yes sir , one would look at the curtilage of a building , yes . |
| 14 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 15 | One can guess at the winner 's reward . ’ |
| 16 | As far as one can foresee at the moment , the IDP will make a valuable contribution to the development or fish farming , which is one of the natural growth industries for the area . |