Example sentences of "if one [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but our summary really would be that if one followed the County Councils proposals , this county would end up with a severe housing shortage . |
| 2 | If one asks the question , ‘ Who decides what is a piece of ‘ good ’ writing ? ’ one is back to Leavis 's statements about the ‘ morally sensitive ’ reader . |
| 3 | If one uses the criteria in the Department of Transports manual of environmental appraisal , to which the County Council themselves have referred , most of those levels of reduction do n't even erm fall at the level where you would normally evaluate their environmental impact . |
| 4 | If one opens the box , one will find the cat either dead or alive . |
| 5 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 6 | If one compares the ratio of central to regional/local expenditure in federal and unitary states , there is no evidence that federal states are necessarily more decentralised . |
| 7 | In particular , if one compares the provisions relating to recovery of expenses in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 with those in Schedule 10 to the Act of 1985 it is clear that the whole scheme has been rewritten and amended in accordance with recommendations in the Law Commission Report on the Consolidation of the Housing Acts ( 1985 ) ( Law Com . |
| 8 | A similar picture emerges if one compares the proportion of sub-degree to degree courses . |
| 9 | If one compares the prices , less UK taxes and US state and federal taxes , the picture becomes much clearer . |
| 10 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 11 | Mr David Hebblethwaite , secretary of the Liturgical Commission which helped produce the Alternative Service , said that if one translated the service back into the language of even 50 years ago , it would be ‘ pretty incomprehensible ’ . |
| 12 | Of course , if one envisages the nationalisation of all the major enterprises ( ‘ top monopolies ’ ) , then the problem becomes internalised within the ‘ public sector ’ , but two points here : first , the present discussion is predicated on the hypothesis that there is a fruitful ideological space within which to argue for socialist investment planning — it does not depend on the ( counterfactual ) proposition that there is wide popular support for sweeping nationalisation of enterprises . |
| 13 | Delphy points out that if one jettisoned the idea of the family as unit of stratification , using economic criteria to classify individuals instead , most wives would come out below their husbands . |
| 14 | However , we discovered that if one ate the prawns with the cinnamon meat sauce and mixed in lots of stir-fried manage-touts the results were marvellous . |
| 15 | The expenditure base defined above includes wealth transferred , but it has sometimes been argued that the base should include only consumption , which would be equivalent to entering only receipts net of transfers on the left-hand side of ( 9–2 ) , as one would if one treated the dynasty as an integrated unit . |
| 16 | Each canon has the following voice ( or ‘ consequent ’ ) only a quaver later and a semitone higher ( if one disregards the fact that the basses are transposed down an octave ) . |
| 17 | If one contrasts the history of British Conservatism in the early twentieth century with the history of the British left — or , indeed , the German right — in the same period one can only be struck by the discrepancy in the volume and nature of the scholarship produced . |
| 18 | If one assumes the no boundary condition for the universe , we shall see that there must be well-defined thermodynamic and cosmological arrows of time , but they will not point in the same direction for the whole history of the universe . |
| 19 | As several authors point out , the very fact that unequivocal translation evolves between any two communities in contact tells heavily against it ( though if one extends the example to man/dolphin the issue becomes more cloudy , presumably because we have less in common with dolphins ) . |
| 20 | Even if one assumed the uptake of Ac-ASA to be the total measured drug , including the adherent component ( 30.7 nmol/g dry weight ) , it would still be significantly inferior to the uptake of 5-ASA . |
| 21 | Suffice it to say that the cross-sectional survey is not well attuned to handling processes , but this is a much more serious matter if one abandons the assumptions of symmetry and reversibility . |
| 22 | For if one ignores the relationship between the 's and β , and g , equation ( 4.29 ) seems to say that the level of real output can be raised by an increase in the quantity of money , regardless of whether or not that increase is predictable . |
| 23 | Yes , one does , if one broadens the range . |
| 24 | If one photographed the boat with the sun behind one , as regulation photography requires , the film would record a white haze of boat , and contrast into darkness the less intensely lighted surrounds . |
| 25 | If one analyses the appeal of desktop publishing the basic appeal is its capability to generate material that looks printed , not like something that came off a daisywheel or dot matrix printer . |
| 26 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 27 | If one recognises the materiality of the division of production and labour by branches , ii is no good writing off such conflicts as ‘ false consciousness ’ . |
| 28 | If one takes the position that human right to life is absolute , then one must show a morally relevant difference between human and animal life that justifies denying that an animal 's right to life is absolute , and I believe we have shown that such a difference is not readily found . |
| 29 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 30 | If one takes the views of the architects explicitly asked this question in the AMERG survey then the reforms seem to have been a mixed blessing ( 42 per cent thinking them to be beneficial and 29 per cent not to be ) . |