Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 2 | Similarly , one ought to have money to write a cheque or property to write a will ( both features connected with social status ) . |
| 3 | Similarly , of two 60 per cent examination scripts , one may contain answers both of failure quality and distinction quality while the other is 60 per cent throughout . |
| 4 | Instead of looking for different relations in different contexts to prove ambiguity , one may adduce sameness of relations as evidence of generality . |
| 5 | For the moment assume that one may treat SBUs and divisions as identical ; this assumption will be relaxed shortly . |
| 6 | One may eliminate famine as a possible underlying cause of discontent , as the harvests in the five years before 1381 were at least average and sometimes good ( 78 , p.161 ) . |
| 7 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 8 | In this case , both sentences can be true without their necessarily referring to separate events : one may purchase apples and pears simultaneously . |
| 9 | One may imagine William Charles tut-tutting in the front pews : ‘ To think that young brother o ’ mine , Ben , would disgrace us all by getting Bob Hasted 's daughter in the family way … silly young shaver … ' . |
| 10 | In particular , one may need help to see that caretaking for other people , protecting them from damaging consequences and also doing everything one can to " help " , may be having the exact opposite of the desired effect . |
| 11 | As we noticed in chapter 3 , vernacular vowel systems such as the Belfast one may display patterns that are not comfortably accounted for by standard or traditional methods . |
| 12 | ‘ The size of the earth over which one may roam shrinks day by day , until it decreases to the house , — to one 's room , — to one 's bed ; and finally to the narrowest space of all . ’ |
| 13 | In a sense , therefore , one may adopt Hare 's significant point that what people do is a matter of some importance . |
| 14 | One may take leave to wonder whether , if Aristotle had pondered even more deeply on the nature of citizenship , he would have agreed with these schools and added ; health and safety ; eating for health ; smoking ; sexual relationships and decision making ; or body abuse . |
| 15 | One may remember Ioreth repeating to her cousin in Gondor that Frodo ‘ went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself , and set fire to his Tower , if you can believe it . |
| 16 | On top of these one can consider paper-based publishing against video-based publishing or , alternatively , one may consider technology , design and information management ( i.e. publishing ) as three aspects of the problem . |
| 17 | One may hear echoes of this kind of project in I.A. Richards or the New Critics , but they none of them have the same degree of theoretical rigour and consistency , and they do not take the emphasis on the distinctively literary to the same degree . |
| 18 | While one may keep fish tanks , paint generals ( artistically , at least ) , and drink whiskey , we do not " believe aircraft " , nor can our host simply " think you " , and while we might declare Philip to be infuriating , we do not simply " declare Philip " . |
| 19 | Hence one may have freehold possession ( i.e. ownership ) or leasehold possession ( i.e. tenancy ) . |
| 20 | Another point which is not always recognised is that covert research can itself impose severe restrictions on the kinds of questions that one may legitimately ask and the sorts of people to whom one may have access . |
| 21 | If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes . |
| 22 | One may add copper losses ( resistive losses in the wires ) in a similar manner . |
| 23 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 24 | Eastwood was concerned that no one should think Hodkinson was dodging McMillan . |
| 25 | No one should underestimate Ian 's determination to be part of the England scene if we make it to America for the finals in 1994 . |
| 26 | It is on this principle that the school curriculum should be founded ; and this means that no one should leave school without some evidence of achievement in both the practical and the theoretical . |
| 27 | Levy ( 1974a ) suggests as a solution to the problem of bias that one should estimate dominance proportions from the relative frequency of left and right sided lesions among non-aphasic brain-damaged patients . |
| 28 | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza has criticized Ruether here , asking how one should distinguish script from scripture . |
| 29 | One should visit Italy for the first time either alone or with a lover , she decided . |
| 30 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |