Example sentences of "one [vb -s] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A communicative act is a lie if by ascribing the appropriate belief and intention to produce in the audience the opposite belief , one achieves the best explanation — within one 's theory of the agent 's beliefs , desires , etc. — of his act . |
| 2 | ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’ |
| 3 | Of all the goal categories , this one includes the largest variability because it reflects an individual 's experience in a socio-economic environment . |
| 4 | If one compares the latest exhibition at the Pushkin with those of the 1970s , the differences are only too obvious : then it was still possible in Odessa to buy a signed landscape by Jacob van Ruysdael ; several of Matisse 's works from his widow , or ( and it would be interesting to know for how much ) two pictures from the school of Pieter Coeck van Aelst . |
| 5 | His own model of churchly behaviour , he once remarked , was Russian Orthodox , where people sit , stand , kneel or lie flat , and ‘ no one takes the slightest notice of what anyone else is doing , ’ the guiding motto in religion ( as in life ) being to mind your own business . |