Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ . |
| 2 | In fact , of one refers to the practices of Muhammad , which are the main Muslim Texts , one sees that they deal as much with politics , government , the struggle against tyrants , as with prayers . " |
| 3 | ‘ The second one refers to the serpent entering Eden . ’ |
| 4 | At first blush the analysis outlined above possesses considerable intuitive appeal , but the further one delves into the arguments that lie at its core , the more profoundly disturbing are its conclusions . |
| 5 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |
| 6 | Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse . |
| 7 | Well you know how the , those gutters one sits on the other at the joint do n't they , and they used to fill it with er putty did n't they and |
| 8 | They do not provide an explanation of how one turns into the other . |
| 9 | However , if one turns to the report 's tables , based on a growth in energy demand of between 1 and 2 per cent a year , it makes little difference whether gas or coal is the main fuel used to produce electricity . |
| 10 | After about seven minutes of this ambient fugue , one turns to the other and says , ‘ They 're taking the piss now . ’ |
| 11 | When two strangers are standing shivering at a bus-stop in an icy wind and one turns to the other and says ‘ My goodness , it 's cold ’ , it is difficult to suppose that the primary intention of the speaker is to convey information . |
| 12 | However , when one turns to the year-by-year figures in Table 2 , the picture , even for that period , becomes more variable . |
| 13 | Your Lord if one turns to the issues of reference , er the commercial quarters as we discussed yesterday should only make a reference if it 's necessary to do so in order to resolve the case and has the discretion whether to make a reference under article one seven , seven |
| 14 | If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent . |
| 15 | In fact , the more one thinks about the distribution of this rock platform the less plausible seems the explanation in terms of marine erosion . |
| 16 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 17 | One thinks of the Moorgate crash in 1975 which killed 42 people and seriously injured 75 ; one thinks of the Goodge Street fire of 1981 and , inevitably , King 's Cross . |
| 18 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 19 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 20 | If one thinks of the DNA codes for proteins as records in a jukebox , the problem is to understand why one disc , say the haemoglobin theme , is played only in red blood cells while another , the albumin theme , is played only in liver cells . |
| 21 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 22 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 23 | One thinks of the familiar nostalgia for ‘ roots ’ which makes the children of assimilated , secularised and anglicised Jews rediscover comfort in the ancestral rituals , and sentimentalise the memories of the shtetl , which they have never known . |
| 24 | One thinks of the feminist cartoon of the three wise men arriving at Bethlehem , one saying to the others , with down-turned mouth : ‘ Its a girl ! ’ |
| 25 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 26 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 27 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 28 | One thinks of the change in the course Of the Hwang-ho River in China , which in less than eighty years moved its mouth some 250 miles from way to the south of Shantung on the Yellow Sea up nearly to Tientsin on the Gulf of Pohai . |
| 29 | And furthermore , ‘ one will understand nouns and verbs better if one thinks of the role that they adopt in narrative ’ . |
| 30 | One thinks of the way in which the industry set up a factory , with considerable Government money , to produce Skoal Bandits , and then blatantly promoted that carcinogenic product , which promotes mouth cancers , to children in nearby schools . |