Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 2 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 3 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 4 | In constructionist theory the ‘ self ’ is the sense of personal identity derived from being a ‘ continuity of one 's point of view in the world of space and time ’ , linked with being an agent capable of action ‘ in that one takes oneself as acting from that very same point ’ . |
| 5 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 6 | If one helps oneself to a service or property , one does not obtain by deception . |
| 7 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 8 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |