Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 2 | One understands from these films why critic Gavin Lambert remarked of his departure from England in 1956 that the country ‘ really seemed in the doldrums , like it had lost the war almost . ’ |
| 3 | Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity ; this one turns to procedural matters , and to the way in which the involvement of third parties , once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts , was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions . |
| 4 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 5 | One thinks of younger siblings and playmates , handicapped friends , and animals . |
| 6 | Such exploration may even dispose of the attraction ; this is in any case to be hoped for , if one thinks on these lines , as resolution of the transference/counter transference situation of which psychoanalysis and other therapies take account . |
| 7 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 8 | No one goes to such lengths now , though you do sometimes hear complaints from artists about the position of their work . |
| 9 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 10 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 11 | When one looks at biological materials one is impressed with the enormous care which Nature seems to take over the interfaces when she is being , as it were , teleological . |
| 12 | If one looks at these persons we agree are ‘ great ’ butlers , if one looks at , say , Mr Marshall or Mr Lane , it does seem to me that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely competent is most closely captured by this word ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 13 | Furthermore , when one looks at these paintings by Cézanne one is often struck by the closeness between the poses of certain figures and those of the ‘ demoiselles ’ . |
| 14 | No one looks at these buildings . |
| 15 | That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility . |
| 16 | Similarly , suppose one starts with two boxes , one containing oxygen molecules and the other containing nitrogen molecules . |
| 17 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 18 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |
| 19 | But it was , in real terms , very much less if one allows for rising prices . |
| 20 | One sees on such maps the new landscape actually in course of being planned , and can see how completely it was drawn afresh , regardless of almost everything that had gone before . |
| 21 | What one sees in general terms are substantial increases in science , technology , administrative , business and social studies , and creative arts enrolments , but stasis or decline in languages and humanities . |
| 22 | About 840 Joash was put on the throne either by Carian or by Cretan mercenaries , according to which interpretation one prefers of II Kings II.4 . |
| 23 | I 've always grown vegetables for pleasure or necessity , and ( despite what purists suggest ) when pests strike they thrive even after spraying with boiled rhubarb leaves or marinaded fag ends or whatever , one reaches for modern chemicals to save the crop . |
| 24 | The littlest one leaks at both ends incessantly . |
| 25 | Inequality , they argue , is attached to position ; the crucial concern is , therefore , with how one gets into these positions and how much movement there is across generations . |
| 26 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 27 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 28 | On occasion one hears of unusual circumstances surrounding tenders , where neither the vendor nor tenderers are present to affirm that everything was above-board . |
| 29 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 30 | Giving their children a few old pennies works wonders , as does showing them the pieces of jagged cans one finds on these places . |