Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , there 's no denying that sectional conferences need some guidelines , I mean you only need one experience like last year 's Apex conference to realize that . |
| 2 | But , did n't one girl look crumpled ? |
| 3 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’ |
| 5 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 6 | Could one person overcome two able-bodied people ? ’ |
| 7 | It seems plausible that the life expectancy of people infected with HIV is too short today for invasive anal cancer to develop , but better treatment regimens might one day change this picture . |
| 8 | We should hope that Hughes , having taken his soliloquy , will one day transcribe more of these asides . |
| 9 | Since we are unlikely yet to have discovered the oldest fossils of all , we can reckon that life started well before 3000 million years ago and as a rough guide , it will serve to let one day represent ten million years . |
| 10 | Weedy guitars nervously brush at the hem of one 's robe as the singer evokes the force and passion of his discourse in a voice unintroduced to Mr Tune and Mr Singing Lesson , ‘ Do n't Slip Away ’ is the sort of record that will one day consume all of indiedom in its lolloping , lardy inertia . |
| 11 | His eyes did not leave the view as he said , ‘ Did you ever think when you were living in that flat in Manchester that you would one day own all this ? ’ |
| 12 | You will one day find such a man and marry him , I am certain . |
| 13 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 14 | When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth . |
| 15 | The troops might be raw , Piatakov might be an ultra-Leftist , but the ship had to be built with the timbers that were available , not some hypothetical timbers that might one day become available . |
| 16 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 17 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
| 18 | If Scotland should one day become independent , with its own monarch , then union with Ulster might seem more acceptable to all . |
| 19 | The patent for the muon work came to nothing , but then Rafelski suggested that , seeing as the attorney was present , they might as well get him to notarise the logbook in case the discussion should one day prove seminal . |
| 20 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 21 | Buy why should one man own all the deer ? |
| 22 | Do I really need two airpumps , for the skimmer and the trickle filter , or will one pump do both ? |
| 23 | ‘ But why does one country attack another ? ’ he asked . |