Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries , Ayrshire 's loss may have been the world 's gain but one must wonder what the effect would have been if some of the intelligent and ambitious people who left had stayed at home . |
| 2 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 3 | And whereas neither a first-rate performance of a symphony nor a miserable one will change what the composer wrote , the performance of a business continually creates new and different scores against which its performance is assessed . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that we often feel isolated in our quest ; after all , if no two people share the same experiences , no one can tell you the best way to deal with a particular situation . |
| 5 | No one can say what the next century will bring . |
| 6 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |