Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one goes for a major adventure like tornado you hope that most of the difficulties are are ironed out , clearly they 're not , another set of difficulties emerges . |
| 2 | No one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury , But if a player is hindering the ball coming out , he faces the risk of being raked . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 's harmless enough — just playful — but some people are afraid of alsatians , and this one looks like a fierce wolf . ’ |
| 4 | No one lives outside a cultural context . |
| 5 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 6 | The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income . |
| 7 | One should be near to the natural world when one meets with an unnatural death . ’ |
| 8 | If one allows for a surrounding portico , 10 ft wide , the overall dimensions would have been 71 by 69½ ft , giving an area of 4934.5 sq.ft , making it the second largest temple in Britain . |
| 9 | One leads to an alienated theology and the other to an alienated lifestyle . |
| 10 | The nearest one gets to a decent plot these days is Lady Felsham clipping her roses . |
| 11 | One suffers from a weak erection and two complain of retrograde ejaculation . |
| 12 | The same is true of the meanings of lexical units : each one consists of an indefinite number of contextual relations but at the same time constitutes a unified whole . |
| 13 | Since it is accepted that the consensus varies according to time and place , it is not clear how one distinguishes between a legitimate consensus and a deviant subculture . |
| 14 | In the end it is only trial and error that one settles on a suitable selection . |
| 15 | The Microsoft one plugs into a serial port you may want to use for a modem , while you have to hunt for a mouse to fit into the IBM PS/2 socket . |
| 16 | One wishes for a good bath at the mere reminder . ’ |
| 17 | The first three crusts are ignored , and then one disappears in a tiny whirlpool caused by the powerful suck of a sizeable chub . |
| 18 | Niko Tinbergen demonstrated the site-dependence of which fish attacks and which one flees in a simple experiment ( Figure 7. 5 ) . |
| 19 | this effect however , tends to minimize as one continues with a high-fibre diet . |
| 20 | Andrew was indulgent when Judith talked of her ambitions to star in a Broadway production , or better still , in a London West End success and we all voiced assurance and encouragement as one talks to a little boy who hopes to become Prime Minister . |
| 21 | PLAY The heightening of consciousness that arises when one awakens in a strange room that one can not momentarily identify |
| 22 | It is difficult to assess what one learns from a good teacher — I was so greedy to learn that one can not always separate what was given from what one has seized upon and made one 's own . |
| 23 | In e-mail systems it is possible to receive a number of related messages from different people on screen , to then go into a statistical package and do some calculations , and on the basis of this come to a decision which one communicates to a different set of people . |
| 24 | One dies of a concealed heart malformation : like a twin , the French Veronique experiences the other 's feelings and knows how to avoid their cause ; she is conscious of the other 's presence , she is never alone , her life is guided ; it is guided , really , to love . |
| 25 | Only one must be worthy — otherwise — if one attempts and fails , one dies like a poisoned rat , not the best death , but the worst death of all — ’ |
| 26 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 27 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 28 | Occasionally one comes across an odd book that follows some of his recommendations , as he himself did in his plays — Americanisms like ‘ favor ’ for favour and ‘ labor ’ for labour , or confusions between ‘ ca n't ’ or ‘ wo n't ’ and cant or wont , to name only a few . |
| 29 | Well that one comes in a junior size . |