Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 2 | One involves throwing a ball for a player to head while another one hurls a medicine ball into his back ! |
| 3 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 4 | To obtain a first class , one needs to do a little thinking . |
| 5 | To see this one needs to take a closer look at some of the ways in which philosophy has been conceptualised . |
| 6 | 1982 ) ; to describe the Quileute demonstratives one needs to make a distinction between objects visible and not visible to the speaker ( Anderson & Keenan , in press ) ; and so on . |
| 7 | To understand how engineers are preparing for earthquakes , one needs to know a little about how buildings behave when shaken . |
| 8 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 9 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 10 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 11 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 12 | No one has given a completely convincing explanation of what Mazzocchi may have meant by ‘ mezz'Arie ’ . |
| 13 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
| 14 | And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district . |
| 15 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
| 16 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 17 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 18 | No one has devised a research method , short of market trials , that can compare different media — and even such tests have their pitfalls . |
| 19 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
| 20 | To understand music-hall and vaudeville one has to fight through layers of myth and romance and one has to undo a whole view of the past that uses nostalgia for pre-1914 as a touchstone . |
| 21 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 22 | The fact that no one has created a furore over this would suggest that Ireland has travelled a hell of a healthy distance since those dark days in the 60's when your book was banned . |
| 23 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ One has lived a certain amount of life , ’ Haverford admitted , swigging the Guinness Fosdyke served with the steak and kidney ( 'no particular point in just opening another bottle of Chianti in Chiantishire' ) . |
| 25 | It is perhaps asking too much to exact sympathy when one has killed a king and bedded his queen but he deserved all the accolades he received . |
| 26 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 27 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 28 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 29 | So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe . |
| 30 | One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began . |