Example sentences of "one [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Maximilian saw nothing and said , ‘ It would be interesting to observe whether one got the same effect by slowing up the , say , motion of a shoe on a banana skin . ’ |
| 2 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 3 | No one mentioned the latter point and only four teachers the former . |
| 4 | The Parliament of the Cook Islands comprises 24 members ( nine representing the main island of Raratonga , 14 representing constituencies on other islands , and one representing the many Cook Islanders resident in New Zealand ) sitting for up to five years . |
| 5 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 6 | And every one has the same , underlying cause . |
| 7 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 8 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 9 | This general tectonic coral atoll problem has been the one to receive the most attention in the past , though it is now being displaced by morphological , ecological and sedimentation problems ( Stoddart and Steers , ( 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world . |
| 11 | until the one includes the many . |
| 12 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 13 | At first it looks like name-dropping until one finds the same sort of thing in Athenaeus or Aelian . |
| 14 | Most other birds of prey will fight if there 's more than one chasing the same prey . |
| 15 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 16 | After all , one does the same with clothes . |
| 17 | But this one does the same thing as ever . |