Example sentences of "one would [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film , but normally one would avoid such cacophony .
2 Since paraprofessional social welfare personnel are an important resource for meeting people 's needs , one would assume that policy makers , social service administrators and professional social workers would view them in this light and would do what they could to support and develop this valuable resource .
3 In the present case , one would suppose that information about the effect of paint on building materials is of fairly limited appeal .
4 One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem .
5 One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced .
6 Erm I , I just get this feeling , you know one would expect that year eleven is a reasonable way of working out what the , the sort of workload is , and you would think that special needs would actually be something that really related quite nicely
7 One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units .
8 I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned .
9 One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic .
10 Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none .
11 Had the two interests been hostile , one would expect some evidence of local friction , but there is none .
12 If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question .
13 One would expect self-selected leisure activities to be different from and complementary to those at work .
14 No one would place much credence on such a suggestion , but are equally batty notions finding favour with the anti-lead movement ?
15 I hope that the inquiry will underline the fact that , by and large , children do not lie about such matters and that the people who have now come forward as adults have probably been permanently damaged because no one would pay any attention to what they said .
16 If changes were made to a house that increased its value , the valuation would be increased ; hence , one would pay more tax .
17 But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year .
18 Er one would go one process and another would go the other .
19 the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary .
20 Not that one would get that impression from the announcement made by WTA after the formal statement by the WIPTC that the constitution of the Council would remain unchanged , at least until current contracts expire at the end of 1994 .
21 Pronouns can either become disjuncts ( he or she , her or his ) or the singular they may be used ( no one would use sexist language if they could help it ) .
22 No one would believe this situation .
23 The one would propose clever trick after clever trick to beat the Heisenberg relation , whilst the other would show with equal persistence that further thought revealed a flaw in each successive suggestion .
24 Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination .
25 Armed with Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation , one would have little excuse for not being able to run a calm and well-organised cardiac arrest .
26 However , it can not be measured experimentally ; one would need simultaneous information from every point of the flow .
27 More interesting is the question whether on stylistic grounds one would postulate one designer or two at Olympia , but that too admits of no easy answer .
28 Although from the way the Americans complain one would imagine such treachery is solely a British disease , more than 30 American citizens have been recently convicted of serious espionage offences .
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