Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 2 | No one should undertake this hill crossing unless they are confident of covering long distances , carrying food , clothing and other gear for several days . |
| 3 | Ageist policies are sometimes advocated on the basis of compassionate and humanitarian concerns — perhaps one might regard this stance as reasoned ageism . |
| 4 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 5 | As one might imagine this method was maddeningly inconvenient and very inaccurate . |
| 6 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 7 | If one likes , one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God , but it would be a very strange kind of intervention : there is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose . |
| 8 | One could avoid this difficulty of having to describe what we do not and can not know only if the histories satisfy the no boundary condition : they are finite in extent but have no boundaries , edges , or singularities . |
| 9 | Miach said no one could undo this spell . |
| 10 | One could dismiss this factor once and for all merely by saying that any aspect of conventional harmony ( triadic chords , cadences , etc. ) must be avoided . |
| 11 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 12 | I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious . |
| 13 | the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary . |
| 14 | No one would believe this situation . |
| 15 | Karajan 's methods were as commonsensical as they were revolutionary , reminding one of Confucius 's puzzled enquiry , ‘ The way out is via the door , how is it no one will use this method ? ’ |
| 16 | The answer to that question depends in part on how sensitive the results are to the specification of the model , and one can view this Lecture as being directed towards throwing light on this issue . |
| 17 | The full-throttle climaxes of Francesca are delivered with a frenzied desperation which is guaranteed to play havoc with all but the most robust of dispositions , and the spine-tingling emotionalism of the gloriously protracted central section is entered into with a fearlessness which borders on the overwhelming — one can feel this music coursing through the orchestra 's veins . |
| 18 | However , before one can reach this conclusion — one that is refreshingly straightforward and easy to apply — it is necessary to consider the material in rather more detail … |