Example sentences of "one [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last privilege is one presumably allowed the artist but not the model . |
| 2 | When one speaks under duress — you should know this — one rarely speaks the truth . ’ |
| 3 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 4 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 5 | However , one rarely sees a completion of those overs in the allotted time . |
| 6 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 7 | Land lies derelict , land is poorly farmed , and one rather has the feeling that Norton-Taylor regards it as a sin to own land at all . |
| 8 | ‘ And the one necessarily precludes the other in your estimation , hmm ? ’ |
| 9 | In one long experiment a woman and bottlenose dolphin lived together constantly fur several months . |
| 10 | Yeah , you 've got three doors which is more storage space than the other one , cos the other one only had a cupboard down had no drawers , what 's the matter ? |
| 11 | Apart from fuel and servicing , the last one only needed a replacement throttle cable in 38,000 miles . |
| 12 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 14 | No one much disputes the idea that reform will have to involve deregulation , demonopolisation , a tight monetary policy and , above all , fast privatisation . |
| 15 | One thus gets a sequence of periods : 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , … , ∞ . |
| 16 | One thus has The intensity is related to this , but the probability distribution function contains more information than the intensity . |
| 17 | In substantial problems , this technique may be used many times before one finally resolves the question . |
| 18 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 19 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 20 | One just heard a whistle , one said it sounded like a hymn and the third , who was a church woman , claimed she could identify it precisely , ‘ Now the Day is Over' ’ . |
| 21 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 22 | I think that one just has the luck very occasionally to run through periods where one can be happy . |
| 23 | Higher degrees are of two basic kinds — taught degrees ( for which one normally sits an examination ) and research degrees ( for which one normally submits a thesis ) — and of three basic levels . |
| 24 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 25 | Higher degrees are of two basic kinds — taught degrees ( for which one normally sits an examination ) and research degrees ( for which one normally submits a thesis ) — and of three basic levels . |
| 26 | A decision to veto a Single Currency must therefore be accompanied by one permanently to leave the ERM . |
| 27 | One early issue THE FACE was produced from an itinerant suitcase . |
| 28 | One usually reads the symbolism unc as " a belong to A " . |
| 29 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 30 | He quoted Van Gogh , " There is a Venus of Arles , just as there is a Venus of Lesbos , and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … " |