Example sentences of "[adv] one [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 2 | The reasons for this are complex , but basically the more efficient one is as a reader , the less one reads individual words as separate bits , or pays attention to their structure . |
| 3 | With only one functioning grey cell ? ’ |
| 4 | All biopsy specimens include muscularis mucosae ; however only one contained sufficient submucosa for analysis of submucosal staining . |
| 5 | model is a simple dynamic model in which there is only one lagged dependent variable . |
| 6 | Only one wore discreet jewellery . |
| 7 | Similarly in France , a notable feature is the unions ' political pluralism , offering a trinity of communist , socialist and radical Catholic organisations in comparison with the relatively unified movements of West Germany and Britain which are not structurally divided on the basis of religion or politics and have only one coordinating organisational centre ( the DGB and TUC , respectively ) . |
| 8 | Today , however , there is only one polled Irish breed and its numbers are precariously low : it is the rarest breed in the whole of Britain and Ireland . |
| 9 | Erm , but in the end th o only one had any impact and in general , see seeing a female professional was , I have to say , a lot more helpful than seeing male professionals . |
| 10 | Engineers like their materials to be consistent and are not too deeply interested in reasons , so they encouraged the idea that each material has a characteristic strength which could be determined accurately , once for all , if only one did enough tests . |
| 11 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |
| 12 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 13 | Not one took any delight or pride in what he had done . |
| 14 | POLICE will throw a security stranglehold around Elland Road tonight to ensure that not one dissenting Scottish voice dilutes the Yorkshire roar backing Leeds United 's bid for European Cup glory . |
| 15 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 16 | At that time it was not realised that the investigating team were already in possession of the evidence necessary to determine the cause of the accident and it was entirely fortuitous that the body that was removed from under the pathologist 's nose was not one containing vital evidence . |
| 17 | He was not one to make exaggerated claims , and scarcely needed to . |
| 18 | It is through the power of his ‘ thoughts ’ that the Piaroa ruwang is their great warrior and hunter , while the physical prowess of the practical hunter is considered to be a minor capability , not one to place much value upon . |
| 19 | Around the world generally one finds similar examples , albeit on less than an American scale , and there are probably many more not yet known in the world 's literature . |
| 20 | It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one 's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one 's ability and beyond , so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself . |
| 21 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 22 | This would involve claiming that whenever one rejects practical advice by repudiating the presumed end , in the words ‘ But I do n't want that ! ’ , one is declaring ‘ I do n't recognize any imperative to do that ’ . |
| 23 | In our opinion , the duty is not simply one to take reasonable care in the abstract , but to take reasonable care not to injure a person whom it should reasonably have been foreseen may be injured by the act or neglect if such care is not taken . |
| 24 | For , if one accepts a truth-conditional semantics then one is forced to state truth conditions on sentences-in-contexts , or if one prefers ( as Katz would ) that semantics is concerned with aspects of meaning assigned by convention to linguistic forms , then one includes context-dependent aspects of meaning within semantics . |
| 25 | It is better to go in when they are losing money than when they are making money ; then one has more muscle ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes one had terrible doubts about how one was doing . |
| 27 | Brophy however insisted that if test-tube fusion holds up it would have such a major impact on society that ‘ Sometimes one has more responsibility to society than to the scientific community . ’ |
| 28 | The time had come for at least one paid full-time executive officer to take charge . |
| 29 | Whether or not this is acceptable depends on how one sees complex behaviour . |
| 30 | We now need to consider how one makes this decision , how it is theoretically justified and whether the end point of bilingualism may be an inevitable consequence of the initial steps of educators . |