Example sentences of "one [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |
| 2 | One would then not be saying that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life but that one has a certain belief to the effect that it does not do so . |
| 3 | That one has a nice ring to it . |
| 4 | One ground for such a belief is that one has a legal right to some act or omission by another legal or natural person , although to define claims in terms of rights becomes circular : |
| 5 | While laws against personal assault probably fall into this category , it is clear that no one has an individual right to a particular defence policy . |
| 6 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |