Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [vb infin] at the [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 | And the sporting Volcane version , while hot , is not the scorcher one might expect at the top of so accomplished a line-up . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | In a topic on industrialisation one might look at the effect of industrialisation on a rural community without work . |
| 8 | In general terms yes sir , one would look at the curtilage of a building , yes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One can guess at the winner 's reward . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |