Example sentences of "one [modal v] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may on the other hand consider that the ancient traditions and methods of training for the Bar are worthy of preservation . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was only natural , only to be expected ; but with no one left to share these thoughts , the familiar presence gone , one might in the small hours come to wonder whether , being no longer needed , life was really worth living any more . |
| 3 | In other words , different legal arenas are not entirely severed from each other , and political movements such as the peace movement will have to bear in mind the impact of its legal activities on legal arenas other than those with which it is immediately engaged : for example , does the encouragement of judicial activism by the peace movement , or an invitation to adjudication based on natural law , open floodgates which — although they produce desirable results in the short term — one would in the long term prefer to remain shut ? |
| 4 | But put their function as arbiters where one will in the numbered sequence of reasons for their appointment , that is the most obvious and necessary purpose they would serve . |
| 5 | Our mathematicians have shown that it is theoretically possible , by doing the right highly complex calculations , to navigate safely through the world using these light rays , just as effectively as one can in the ordinary way using ultrasound — in some respects even more effectively ! |