Example sentences of "one [vb -s] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this most unusual state of affairs become clear , as soon as one looks at the history of the proceedings against Mr. Osman , who , if an indictment against him is preferred , will become a co-defendant of the applicant . |
| 2 | If one looks at the history of the advance of IT , it starts with the development of the science and technology . |
| 3 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 4 | If one looks at the majority of market experiments in which convergence to the market equilibrium is rapid , one sees that the decision-problem solved by the subjects in such experiments is relatively simple ; recently , however , there have been a number of more complicated market experiments in which the subjects face more complicated decision-problems . |
| 5 | If one looks at the sky on a clear , moonless night , the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn . |
| 6 | However , if one looks at the size of family , the findings are fairly consistent : in the 1948 French study , for instance , housewives with one child put in on average a seventy-eight-hour week ; in the 1950 British study a sixty-seven-hour week , and in the present study a seventy-one-hour week was the average figure for housewives in this group . |
| 7 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 8 | If one looks at the diversity of approaches to the development of education management in the past four decades , it seems that there are two or three which will meet new needs . |
| 9 | If one looks at the painting there is clearly a gap between the mythic illusion which one can ‘ read ’ and the immediacy of the sensations one experiences through the sense of sight . |
| 10 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 11 | I realize that if one looks at the matter objectively , one has to concede my father lacked various attributes one may normally expect in a great butler . |
| 12 | If one looks at the matter in terms of the number of Directives related to trade and competition issued by the Commission , then undoubtedly there is seen to have been progress . |
| 13 | For the recording , we reseated the orchestra for each variation to create the acoustic that one sees and imagines when one looks at the score . |
| 14 | Yet , if one looks at the situation from the point of view of the victim , it is an accident , in the sense that it was not expected or intended by the victim himself . |
| 15 | When one looks at the use of highly qualified manpower within this shifting labour market , the picture is further complicated by the phenomenon of ‘ substitution ’ ( Blaug 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Further , if one looks at the picture for some time , one generally finds , involuntarily , that what one sees changes frequently from a staircase viewed from above to a staircase viewed from below and back again . |
| 17 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 18 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 19 | The other one glances at the sunset and remarks , Ha , it looks like being a wet day tomorrow . |
| 20 | But the ‘ hairy monsters ’ which no one wants at the moment are also tremendous value , and could eventually rise in value . |
| 21 | This one describes at the end er you stumbled over yourself , she did not take er . |
| 22 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 23 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 24 | The change is apparent from when one arrives at the entrance . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's the sort of thing one says at the end of lectures — especially now we have all those bed-sitter Marxists as students . |
| 26 | One of the first signs one sees at the airport challenges , in English : ‘ Take a chance on success ! ’ |
| 27 | One floats at the water surface and is tied to a piece of cork . |
| 28 | The morals one finds at the end of the fabliaux are generally relevant at least in part to the tales that have been told , and on the whole appear ironic only in the sense of the contrast between the worldly-wise , pragmatic and cynical counselling they most frequently offer and the idealistic norms of Christian moralizing that the reader is otherwise prepared for . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not anything like as easy as one imagines at the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ and when you 've actually qualified it 's quite frightening when you 're confronted by an animal with some mysterious disease and an anxious client standing by . |
| 30 | The long awaited guide to the Ormes , by Steve Meyers , has appeared , but one marvels at the arrogance of a publisher who can not be bothered to credit in full the first ascent teams . |