Example sentences of "one [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conventional crime one is charged with the results of one 's actions . |
| 2 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 3 | The local families were patrons and indeed reading the diaries one is struck by the continuity of families into this decade . |
| 4 | As at Matching and Monk 's Topping , one is struck by the personal nature of the virtue expressed by the house . |
| 5 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Delving in the archives one is struck by the frequent references to shortage of funds , a situation which , unfortunately , still applies today . |
| 8 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 9 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 10 | The one is based at the level of the firm . |
| 11 | Dell Computer Corp responded to Compaq Computer Corp 's multimedia machine ( see front ) with two new multimedia personal computers of its own , the Valuestation 386 and 486 , priced at $1,500 and $2,000 : the smaller one is based on the Dell System 333s/L , while the Valuestation 486 is based on the Dell snap-together personal computer ; they a factory installed Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster 16 audio board , a CD-ROM drive , speakers , a microphone , applications installed on the hard drive , and CD-based software applications . |
| 12 | The last one is based on the popular song O du lieber Augustin and its exaggerations ( knowing ‘ how far to go too far ’ in Cocteau 's famous phrase ) bring it close to the kind of waltz parody found in the Valses bourgeoises by Lord Berners ( Unicorn-Kanchana , 1/79 — sadly now deleted ) . |
| 13 | Erm next one is thinking on the left |
| 14 | Only by a careful understanding of the market place can one be sure that one is thinking in the appropriate dimension and take full advantage of scale economies . |
| 15 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 16 | One is to shop around the electricity companies and the other is to generate it yourself . |
| 17 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 18 | As Jesus says of him : ‘ I have watched over them and not one is lost except the one who chose to be lost , and this was to fulfil the scriptures . ’ |
| 19 | This one is cited in the text of a discussion printed in Girard 's Things Hidden and , though not by him , is offered in support of his general thesis that culture is organized in terms of mimesis and desire . |
| 20 | Stac Polly is an extraordinary mountain when seen from a distance and doubly so when one is engaged on the traverse of its narrow ridge . |
| 21 | Here one is dealing with the balance of probabilities , and readers must decide for themselves , since there is no direct evidence one way or the other . |
| 22 | The discourse of rhetoric ( advertising ) and the discourse of truth ( the news ) are implicitly equated through their juxtaposition , and the purgative action described by the one is operated on the other . |
| 23 | In the ‘ St. Anne ’ Prelude and Fugue , one is overcome by the sheer majesty and regality of what one hears rather than by superficial pianistic fireworks . |
| 24 | One is illustrated by the fact that the blacks call their church first purchase , this is because it was the first thing that their community bought when they were all released from slavery , another form of racial prejudice on behalf of the whites . |
| 25 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 26 | Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue . |
| 27 | An extreme version of the historical relationship approach is Anderson ( 1979 ) where large ‘ pre-historic ’ families of sign languages are postulated on such evidence as whether the sign for ONE is formed with the extended thumb ( A ) or index finger ( G ) ( fig. 8.2 ) . |
| 28 | Even when increased authenticity might be judged to be desirable on motivational grounds , one is faced with the problem that the process of learning depends on the recognition of underlying regularities , on the identification of salient and essential features from all the accidental complexities of actual behaviour . |
| 29 | This sort of argument is so commonly used in the social sciences that it almost passes unnoticed ; but as soon as one stops to think about it one is faced with the problem in hand . |
| 30 | On the other hand , in slipping the curve into the picture , however subtle this may be , one is faced with the problem of people . |