Example sentences of "but one must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one must choose one 's friends well in these uncertain times . ’ |
| 2 | But one must recognize that whatever system one puts in has only got a limited life before it becomes irrelevant , and if the payment is for achievement it must do just that . |
| 3 | I fully sympathise with the hon. Lady 's constituents , but one must face the facts of life : in a recession , and coming out of a recession , jobs are always being lost . |
| 4 | I accept your reasons for the visit and interview you afforded Lewis Group , but one must admit that the end result has been an indirect advertisement for the Lewis Group of companies which does not necessarily imply a ‘ consideration ’ for services rendered or anything similar . |
| 5 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 6 | But one must remember that the divergent reading of the Christian myth by Reformation and Counter-Reformation is at the heart of the religious as opposed to the rough interpretation of the conflict . |
| 7 | Wild mice may be kept and bred in standard mouse cages , but one must remember their jumping ability . |
| 8 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 9 | I think Cruttenden 's arguments are in many ways convincing , but one must recognise that if intonation is influenced by and reflects the grammar , it follows that it must be a help to listeners in interpreting the grammar of what they hear , and perhaps more importantly , if a speaker 's intonation is inappropriate in relation to the grammar , listeners will find it more difficult to interpret the grammar , and may be confused . |
| 10 | ‘ But one must imagine the crowded churches in the East End of London , ’ said Everard , ‘ and the great processions — not just a few sophisticated Anglo-Catholic intellectuals pondering every word with critical detachment . ’ |
| 11 | He means precisely what he says — ; but one must enter the language on its own terms or the meaning vanishes . |
| 12 | But one must learn to read , just as one must learn to see and learn to live . ’ |
| 13 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 14 | This might appear to be a criticism of the school in how it undertook its appraisal , but one must question whether it was really in the school 's interests to produce an evaluation in which its weaknesses were openly admitted . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But one must wait until one knows the ground before he can be supported . |