Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 2 | It might seem obvious that , if one is studying word-meanings , one ought to find native speakers ' intuitions concerning the meanings of words the most informative . |
| 3 | If , however , one is uncertain about the typical choice of a typical member one may examine all the members one can reach and then form some kind of average , discovering the type that way . |
| 4 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 5 | One may compare such a public certification of the title with the stamp on a coin , which attests the genuineness of the metal , whereas the system of private investigation of title is as if a man was obliged to employ an expert analyst to test the genuineness of the coins which might be tendered to him . |
| 6 | And although he was not directly involved in the Nghe-Tinh debâcle , one may assume that , Ho , too , had ‘ overestimated the capacity of the communist leadership to transform spontaneous revolt into a nationwide uprising , and had underestimated the ability of the colonial regime to quell any challenge to its authority ’ . |
| 7 | when they are travelling , in the front a child , now one year , must use an approved child restrain design for age and weight , a child over one may wear any approved child restraint on adult seat belt , in the rear a child must be restrained and the appropriate restrain is fitted , the the term appropriate restrain includes the following ; infants under one year old , a carry or cot which is held by straps , children one , two or three years in appropriate child seat or harness or booster cushion with an adult belt , not a household cushion . |
| 8 | Sometimes , as was remarked above , by relying on indirect strategic reasons one may achieve greater conformity with the underlying basic reasons than is possible through a direct attempt to pursue them . |
| 9 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 10 | One may think such a suggestion to be far from orthodox . |
| 11 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 12 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 13 | Generally , one may expect that , for a combination of gravitational and electromagnetic waves , a curvature singularity in region IV will usually occur . |
| 14 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 15 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 16 | His experience may tell him that it may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the circumstances , but failure to take one may become visible to headquarters . |
| 17 | A weak band close to a strong one may become difficult to detect in the gas phase , unless its own rotational envelope contains a prominent feature such as a Q-branch close to the band origin . |
| 18 | Twain is quoted as recording that ‘ one may ride ten miles , hereabouts , and not see ten human beings ’ and that ‘ the hills are barren … the valleys are unsightly deserts … it is a hopeless , dreary , heartbroken land … |
| 19 | On this basis the position of region B has deteriorated with respect to region A. On the other hand one may say that for Region A , between year 1 and year 2 , unemployment increased by 25 per cent ( expressed as a percentage of unemployment in year 1 ) and for region B , unemployment increased by 20 per cent ( expressed as a percentage of unemployment in year 1 ) . |
| 20 | One may say that , one may say well it 's really your soul or your character that makes you who you are . |
| 21 | As a supplement , one may use external consultants and part-time experts from the basic organization . |
| 22 | Although conceding , in a footnote , that one may use extrabiblical material to ‘ illuminate scripture ’ , her basic stance is to grant to the text the status of a self-contained entity . |
| 23 | True , one may need some notion of " normal practice " ( in preference perhaps to appropriateness ) even to describe such phenomena , but it would be a mistake to limit pragmatics to the study of that normal practice or appropriateness . |
| 24 | No one may seem perfect enough for your child but , given the will , it is easy to discover plenty that is good . |
| 25 | At the same time one may suspect that , despite these occasional ambitions , whether revolutionary or reformist , journalists , novelists and sociologists are typically analysts rather than practitioners . |
| 26 | Or ( another possibility ) , one may judge one theme in scripture to be an organizing focus ( first stage ) , and then ( second stage ) bring that criterion to scripture , judging other themes to be of lesser importance or frankly wanting . |
| 27 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 28 | One may employ uncontrolled violence only against wild animals which are totally independent of human society . |
| 29 | Of course one may have bad luck , and a less interesting route may be taken , and I fear that happened to her . |
| 30 | So in war one may see dead bodies all around , smell the cordite and hear the shells , but it just wo n't happen to me . |