Example sentences of "one have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 2 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 3 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
| 4 | And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district . |
| 5 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 6 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 7 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 8 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ One has lived a certain amount of life , ’ Haverford admitted , swigging the Guinness Fosdyke served with the steak and kidney ( 'no particular point in just opening another bottle of Chianti in Chiantishire' ) . |
| 10 | Alongside this , one has to set a high degree of tolerance , dependency , held by unskilled workers [ whom we interviewed ] . |
| 11 | This is prepared by the pursuer 's agents and is a statement of the pursuer 's case and the defender 's response , now including any alterations known as adjustments , made in course of the Adjustment Period , thus for example , if one has obtained a Medical Report which suggests that the pursuer is exaggerating his injuries and that he should have returned to work earlier than he did , appropriate statement to that effect should have been included in the Adjustment Period and will now be incorporated in the Closed Record . |
| 12 | A winter stream runs past and to enter the house , one has to cross a small wooden bridge . |
| 13 | One has to develop a bilingual atmosphere in this kind of training , and use techniques which will foster this . |
| 14 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 15 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 16 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 17 | Since Sartre and Althusser no one has attempted a new theorization of a Marxist history . |
| 18 | Perhaps twenty times a week each one has to confront a dead body ; they have to meet , talk with and help relatives and friends cope with the practical arrangements posed by the death . |
| 19 | Cloud One has introduced a new concept in unit dose packaging . |
| 20 | But so far no one has provided a satisfactory answer to why , for generations , the Cumberland has inevitably been known as the Blood Kit . |
| 21 | And , since no one has ordered a new nuclear plant since 1978 and none are in the offing , the decision is academic , say industry spokesmen . |
| 22 | So far , no one has found a possible candidate for the supernova that might have represented the Star of Bethlehem . |
| 23 | As Winston Churchill once said , parliamentary democracy is a very bad system — but no one has found a better one . |
| 24 | This one has found a cosy hole in an insulation , covering a disused pipe to an oil fired power centre . |
| 25 | No one has had a greater influence on intellectual life in twentieth century Spain than Jos'e Ortega y Gasset ( 1883-1955 ) . |
| 26 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 27 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 28 | Allowance Scheme one had to attend a mandatory seven day Start Your Own Business course . |
| 29 | Of the 15 people questioned , only one had made a positive decision to drink low-alcohol beer — to protect his liver . |
| 30 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |