Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 2 | Such a one may feel that Pound 's ‘ writing off ’ of England , his abandonment of her — physically in 1920 , in imagination some years earlier — was abundantly justified , to the extent indeed that it was not so much his justified rejection of her , as her unjustifiable rejection of him . |
| 3 | One may think that Tolkien was rightly pushing towards a clarification of his ‘ mythology ’ . |
| 4 | Extending the parallel with heroin one may say that addicts can be cured by the use of external force , and often they have to be , though their co-operation certainly helps . |
| 5 | One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point . |
| 6 | Here one may note that while , eventually , it was France who not only defined Vietnam but also the character of Vietnamese resistance , it can also be argued that in the impact of the first two revolutionary events of the 2Oth century experienced in Vietnam , the inspiration came from Asia itself . |
| 7 | As an index of the difficulty , one may note that linguists frequently oscillate between assigning notions like presupposition , illocutionary force , truth condition to sentences or utterances , although important theoretical consequences follow from the choice . |
| 8 | Based on Kodak 's experience , one should expect that 40% to 60% of ideas should be lost during the first two stages , with the idea originators having screened themselves out of the process as a consequence of the feedback they received through the review process . |
| 9 | More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other . |
| 10 | One should add that Buckley takes the Christian myth for granted , as backdrop to the discourse . |
| 11 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
| 12 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 13 | One must assume that Chloe intends to launch a new fragrance based on the stench of rotting vegetables . |
| 14 | One must hope that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role next week , but meanwhile the company is to be congratulated on replacing him with so sterling a performance by this seasoned professional . |
| 15 | ‘ Their wealth has secured them a place in New York society — and one must admit that Mr Barnet is a very presentable man , though somewhat offhand . |
| 16 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 17 | One must fear that Marianella was in their hands for 10 or 12 hours … |
| 18 | To put these actions into perspective , however , one must remember that enclosures were by no means complete . |
| 19 | Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end . |
| 20 | One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century . |
| 21 | One must remember that Milton is also human and , like the reader , could not help but feel for Satan as an expression of a part of himself which was let loose in his writings . |
| 22 | One must recognise that Sunday business can account for about 25 per cent . |
| 23 | First of all , one must recognise that homesickness is natural . |
| 24 | One might suppose that Heatley said very little , that Chain was excited , and that Florey 's reported comment ‘ it looks quite promising ’ would be entirely in character' . |
| 25 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 26 | From this book one might assume that BCCI was primarily a US operation . |
| 27 | One might surmise that Dame Sirith was written to create and fill a brief space of moral relaxation for an audience who knew well both the moral and the social conventions the tale plays with . |
| 28 | Therefore , although one might think that hours of work would be a matter for internal national control , it will be dealt with by the Community if it can get the subsidiarity principle interpreted in that way . |
| 29 | One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe . |
| 30 | One might think that matter could not be compressed that far . |