Example sentences of "one [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 2 | Council leader Michael Carr said no one argued that this was necessary . |
| 3 | First , no one doubts that papal letters from all the popes to whom the forgeries are attributed existed at Canterbury in 1070 and much earlier : they formed part of the quite substantial archival and literary remains which survived the fire of 1067 . |
| 4 | No one doubts that five bars of chocolate eaten for lunch is unhealthy eating . |
| 5 | There is plenty of documentary evidence that brass objects were imported into Benin from Europe by sea and no one doubts that this was the main source of the metal from the 16th century onwards . |
| 6 | One doubts that this will catch on here but helps with an introduction to lead me into a number of important themes relating to culture and death education . |
| 7 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 8 | The Fed and the Treasury are again at cross purposes , with one suggesting that rising inflation is the greater fear while the other insists that the climbing trade deficit is the most serious concern . |
| 9 | Comrade Wong is an endearing fellow , whose face makes one think that Chinese faces were made for smiling with . |
| 10 | Later studies failed to find any response , for the most part , although one found that two out of 16 schizophrenics responded . |
| 11 | No one doubted that some form of physical education should be part of the programme ; nor was there any dissent from the view that girls were to be taught domestic economy and similar subjects in addition to trade and academic courses ; and , thirdly , the terms ‘ vocational ’ and ‘ liberal ’ should be generously interpreted , rather than be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 12 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 13 | One reported that many had read Drysdale 's work : |
| 14 | Can one doubt that such a tale is one of a tightening grasp of an actual reality ? |
| 15 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 16 | For if one supposes that all good things become valueless if you remove the pleasure , one may infer that all the value must lie in the pleasure . |
| 17 | This asymmetry involved in the distinction between two types of justification only becomes dangerous when one supposes that all basic ( non-inferentially justified ) beliefs concern the nature of the believer 's present sensory states . |
| 18 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 19 | Well one assumes that that pattern |
| 20 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 21 | Well , one assumes that this is the expected response to such a plotless folly . |
| 22 | Although the aims of the charter are laudable , ensuring adequate social security , the right of employees to join a union and the right to strike , among other things , they could be unworkable if one assumes that some closer links between the emerging countries of the Eastern bloc and the West — including German reunification . |
| 23 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 24 | That interpretation of an extent is consistent with Anderson 's arguments , if one assumes that working-class life in Lancashire towns was more stable in the later period and somewhat less harsh , removing the absolute necessity for short-term instrumental calculation , while at the same time making predictions about the likelihood of reciprocal support in the future more reliable . |
| 25 | Similarly , a number of housing departments were developing policies aimed at ethnic minority communities , yet only one recognised that disabled people would also be part of such communities . |
| 26 | Nor can one assume that two levels of program ‘ have the same semantics ’ ( as true translations normally would ) . |
| 27 | Not least when the thin one says that this is an ‘ anti-politics ’ tune : ‘ Songs are too romantic to give across a political view , like . |
| 28 | The most positive view comes from the United States : ‘ The fact that much is being done , and that there are few areas of stagnation , makes one believe that better and more fruitful days are ahead ’ . |
| 29 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 30 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |