Example sentences of "one [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority ( eight out of 14 ) were republican , only one respected the Royal Family , the rest said the Windsors should get their act together . |
| 2 | I hear mutterings from the Conservative Back Benches to the effect that the Minister does return with good deals , but if one asked the British farmer , that is not the message that one would hear . |
| 3 | One receives the strong impression that Tolkien would have continued to write his gnominsh grammars , his elvish etymologies , his histories of mythological lost ages , his wanted to read them or not . |
| 4 | We started off with that one squared the whole lot squared |
| 5 | Some geochemists have suspected that a much grander geochemical cycle , one encompassing the entire crust and mantle , is also at work in the planet . |
| 6 | So long as no one plays the National Anthem , he 'll be fine . |
| 7 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
| 8 | Maximilian saw nothing and said , ‘ It would be interesting to observe whether one got the same effect by slowing up the , say , motion of a shoe on a banana skin . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better . |
| 10 | As for Mr Kinnock 's conversion to multilateral nuclear disarmament , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ How does one explain the Labour leader 's contortions ? |
| 11 | The one bringing the German rocket people out covertly after the war . ’ |
| 12 | Is the attempt to make such a separation meaningful , and above all can one devise the appropriate form of highly reductionist experiment which will enable a distinction to be made between these processes ? |
| 13 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 14 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 15 | The old Signals Gallery , largely Medalla 's creation , was one of the last places where one found the undirected avant-guardism of post-war years . |
| 16 | No one mentioned the latter point and only four teachers the former . |
| 17 | ‘ Maybe you 're the one needs the sugary cake , ’ observes Riva . |
| 18 | That is , one needs the literate ability to express oneself clearly ; but one also needs the right voice and the ability to be concise . |
| 19 | One involved the successful launch of its cookery book , Cooking to Please , and the other was because it won the contract to provide in-house catering to the main council sites for second time . |
| 20 | If one accepts the golden rule , this involves rejecting Lord Diplock 's opinion that the inexpediency , injustice or immorality of the proposed application of the statute can not in itself be a reason for finding an ambiguity in the statute . |
| 21 | He was the only one to know the whole story . |
| 22 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 23 | This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods . |
| 24 | The All Blacks have solid , experienced backs , but all New Zealand acknowledges that not one has the sheer pace of the Lions ' wings or Guscott . |
| 25 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 26 | One has the awful feeling that at this election , because of the recession and the loss of conviction which has accompanied the ending of the Thatcher era , this tendency may at last be triumphant . |
| 27 | If one has the legal estate , one is empowered and privileged to do anything in relation to the land which the culture of the time , as represented and interpreted by the judiciary , accords to an " owner of land " . |
| 28 | Watching the spectacle , one has the weird sensation that the actors really knew all the time that their professions were illusory , and that there was a kind of gigantic tacit conspiracy to pretend . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |