Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one may expect a greater similarity between two geometrically similar points than between two geometrically dissimilar points . |
| 2 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 3 | At one extreme one may find a written contract containing many detailed clauses setting out the terms of the contract . |
| 4 | To be an effective business correspondent one should have a sound knowledge of English , which includes correct spelling , grammar and punctuation , and also be able to construct sentences so that the exact meaning is conveyed in the fewest possible words . |
| 5 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |
| 6 | At the same time , one must exercise a certain note of methodological caution about this kind of interview in which people in a sense present public accounts of private relationships . |
| 7 | Therefore one must provide a substantial quantity of this . |
| 8 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 9 | However , in practice at present , there are certainly intermediate flows of which one might give a detailed description for one purpose and a statistical one for another . |
| 10 | Almost , Sara thought , one might detect a certain amount of satisfaction in her tones . |
| 11 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 12 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
| 13 | He says , One might expect a big man to have big bottles , but if you are giving a big dinner party its very practical to have magnums . |
| 14 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 15 | Or ( as cited above ) , one might hold a particular performance as a ‘ reference ’ , which gradually exerts such an influence that any newcomer simply does n't stand a chance . |
| 16 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
| 17 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
| 18 | Rather , he asks for what one might term a systematic study of the structural constraints of ‘ seeing-as ’ , a study which would illuminate our own subjective life as well as enabling us to say something about the experiences of alien creatures . |
| 19 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
| 20 | That was what one might call a pre-poll tax consensus . |
| 21 | One might add a further definition of ‘ triple jeopardy ’ — they are old , mostly women and black , or in some way culturally distinct . |
| 22 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 23 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 24 | Each one could form a complete discourse . |
| 25 | There were three horses among the four of them and they were in such poor shape that not one could bear a double burden . |
| 26 | On Miss Linnet Gage , for instance , one could create a positive sea-foam of gauzy draperies dotted with lace bows and silk rosebuds to the extent of one 's imaginings . |
| 27 | And although his name will always be associated with a Cocktail Party he found such uproarious assemblies , at which no one could have a satisfactory conversation , increasingly insupportable . |
| 28 | On Mrs Marie Moon one could write a fresh drama every morning in black lace , sequined taffeta , white watered-silk with one huge splash of crimson at the waist . |
| 29 | Yet there were still trees , planted in the good , old days , and one could see a great deal of sky . |
| 30 | In terms of emotion one could use a grammatical analogy ( see Bolton , 1978 ) that the ‘ occurring ’ emotion expressed by a participant is a verb , whereas the emotion portrayed by a performer is descriptive , an adjective , no less . |