Example sentences of "[to-vb] one [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( More marks are typically lost by failing to write one answer altogether than by presenting two or three answers which are slightly weaker than you would have wished . ) |
| 2 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 3 | Thus , there was no significant tendency to pick one colour rather than another ( 58/120 red responses , 62/120 green responses ) , or to respond with the colour of the rightmost shape ( 64/120 ) , but a strong tendency to pick the colour of the symmetrical shapes ( 96/120 , P= 0.01 ) . |
| 4 | The meeting booked for 20th May is a one-off to discuss one item only and is n't part of the normal sequence . |
| 5 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 6 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 7 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 8 | It is a bit like running away from the police and just managing to keep one step ahead but not being able to get clear away ! |
| 9 | In view of the fact that the growth of the modern corporate welfare state has been a response to the rise of secular humanism , it is important to go one step further and analyse in greater depth the three key elements within the corporate state — private companies , government and trade unions . |
| 10 | Ideally Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 11 | Ideally , Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 12 | For Gloucester to go one step further and actually stage the ambush so that his enemies could be dealt with there and then would seem a logical refinement of the earlier scheme . |
| 13 | From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee . |
| 14 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 15 | For Gloucester to go one step further and actually stage the ambush so that his enemies could be dealt with there and then would seem a logical refinement of the earlier scheme . |
| 16 | I want to get one thing straight before this conversation finally goes down the drain and before he orders liqueurs . ’ |
| 17 | Similarly , Alison Hennegan has described how as a teenager she hunted out lesbian fiction and based her decisions to investigate one text rather than another on clues as vague and ‘ irrational ’ as a publisher 's logo or a particular chapter title . |
| 18 | That this mild-mannered three piece manage to fulfil those rash dreams is a genuine joy at a time when so many bands seem to have one trick less than a dead pony . |
| 19 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 20 | Buzz 's office was briskly efficient ; she did not care to spend one second more than necessary in it , and nothing was superfluous in the sparsely furnished room . |
| 21 | If " I " am not a metaphysical soul how should this " I " be able to choose to say one thing rather than something else ? |
| 22 | As the award is conventional in its nature and can not in fact compensate for the injury suffered there is no logical reason to take one figure rather than another . |