Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 2 | The statistic is only an informed assumption , and no one offers one in the far more delicate field of photography . |
| 3 | A fully grown red tail is a massive bird , over two feet tall — this one looks me in the eye when she sits on my fist . |
| 4 | Anatole France , more effusive , likened it to a woman who ‘ is so beautiful , so proud , so modest , so tough , so touching , so voluptuous , so chaste , so noble , so familiar , so crazy , and so good that one loves her with all one 's soul , and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her . ’ |
| 5 | One owes respect to the living ; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth . |
| 6 | At the very least one owes it to one 's family to do this , as well as to oneself and even one 's current employer . |
| 7 | It is a very pretty stitch when finished and definitely one of those to reserve for when one has plenty of time to spare . |
| 8 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |
| 9 | But one of them wants my daughter to die , and one wants her to be free . ’ |
| 10 | As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you also think that if one meets someone in such a way — I mean , so weak and defenceless — something makes one surrender completely , so that one can not imagine ever being able to desert such a person ? ’ |
| 12 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 13 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 14 | In the summer men can wear shorts or whatever they like ( and sometimes they look revolting in them , too ! ) and no one says anything to them about it . |
| 15 | The bad one leads them into temptation and they believe that the only way that they can get rid of it is to drag it close to danger . |
| 16 | SOME families are more given to kissing than others ; one sees them at railway stations kissing a whole carriage-full of friends as they prepare to say goodbye . |
| 17 | Pumice deposits , in fact , are usually much better preserved and more informative when one sees them at points some way from the vent . |
| 18 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 19 | Cries , Eliot knew , were vital to the most basic corroboree when ‘ on every side one sees nothing but violent gestures , cries , veritable howls , and deafening noises or every sort . |
| 20 | Anti-Americanism has old roots in Germany , at least if one sees it as a continuation of the anti-liberal , anti-mercantilist sentiments of ‘ Englandhass ’ ( dislike of England ) . |
| 21 | But it is when one sees it for oneself that the problem is really understood . |
| 22 | I think one sees it by the change in the structure of big business , by so many management buy-outs and the realisation that size is not everything ; large companies concentrating more on their core businesses and getting rid of peripheral businesses and spending more on research and development in supporting core businesses . |
| 23 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 24 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 25 | If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce . |
| 26 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 27 | Taken as a whole , it appears relatively standardized , particularly if one compares it with that in the USA . |
| 28 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 29 | The Economist described the situation vividly : ‘ Whenever one hears somebody on the French radio vituperating against ‘ adventurers ’ one can be sure that M. Cohn-Bendit or some other leftist student is the target . |
| 30 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |