Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One does not logically follow the other , of course , but trying to establish theories purporting to explain blacks ' achievements as resulting from alleged natural gifts unique to blacks , by implication , reinforces the stereotype . |
| 2 | Halliday argues that one does not normally meet non-text of this sort in real life . |
| 3 | For the same reason , one does not normally restrict the denominator population to those who are of appropriate age and single . ) |
| 4 | One does not normally anticipate the presence of a burglar . |
| 5 | One does not normally have the choice however , yet this anomaly should not exist . |
| 6 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |
| 7 | Would it be worthwhile for each discipline to set up think tanks — if one does not already exist — of their most imaginative scientists , engineers etc , with , perhaps , three remits : ( i ) to identify major problems for which current and foreseeable knowledge offers no solution ; ( ii ) to pinpoint what basic knowledge is needed , what would be the characteristics of the ideal chemical or other material , together with the relevant techniques for using them ; ( iii ) recognising that what is being considered may be so far out of sight as to be beyond worthwhile research based on existing knowledge and know-how , to organise a system that will recognise the first appearance of the new knowledge and then steer research in the right direction without delay . |
| 8 | The subsidence they produce around them will , in time , make a sea if one does not already exist . ’ |
| 9 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 10 | One does not usually bother to mention it , but we shall make it explicit this time . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the one does not necessarily follow from the other . |
| 12 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 13 | When one conceals matters , one does not necessarily quieten them . |
| 14 | One does not necessarily need an outline or a full planning application in order to do so . |
| 15 | Where a behaviour has been established under conditions of reinforcement , if the contingent relationship between the behaviour and the reinforcing event is broken so that the one does not consistently follow the other , then the strength of the response will gradually diminish . |
| 16 | One does not really think of saving dolphins as connected with social change , but essentially Greenpeace 's claim is not exaggerated . |
| 17 | Secondly , there can be considerable psychological discomfort in having to pretend to beliefs that one does not really hold , or perform actions that one would not normally want to do . |
| 18 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 19 | One does not always agree with her . |
| 20 | To use criminal statistics wisely necessitates some prior work in getting to know the difference between indictable and non-indictable offences and also some legal history so that one does not suddenly discover an enormous decrease in a crime such as stealing cars when the new offence of ‘ take and drive away ’ is introduced . |
| 21 | As mentioned above , one does not actually require κ/; κ C to be much greater than 1 for the occurrence of fingers . |
| 22 | If one does not raise more money from the top bands , one does not actually help the people in the lower bands . |
| 23 | Of course one does not often get shrinkage and swelling as gross as ten per cent but as little as one or two per cent can be sufficiently troublesome . |
| 24 | One does not readily associate public libraries with user education , possibly because the educational role of the public library service is generally seen as secondary to its role as the provider of leisure-time reading and other services . |
| 25 | As one friend complained : ‘ One does n't just suffer from one 's own stress — as soon as our man 's job is going badly we 're the ones who get the backlash and that always seems to include no sex . ’ |
| 26 | Also , if one does n't already exist it may be possible to develop a credit information exchange in your industry or area where interested parties can share credit experiences for the common good . |
| 27 | It will be difficult to decide on the co-respondent , of course ; one does n't usually have such a rich and varied choice . |
| 28 | It must have looked very bad , but I 'm afraid one does n't always stop to think how a situation appears to an outsider . ’ |
| 29 | because let's face it , what suits one does n't always suit another |
| 30 | It does n't have to be quite the same , one does n't always have to have red and gold . |