Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 2 | No one goes off like that any more . |
| 3 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 4 | Her education was heavily concentrated on languages , Latin , Spanish and Italian , even probably some Greek ; among her formal Latin letters , written as exercises , one stands out with ironic interest , for it was addressed to John Calvin . |
| 5 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 6 | Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds . |
| 7 | As this one comes up to this one here , this one then pulls out to overtake this vehicle . |