Example sentences of "one [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Mr Kinnock 's conversion to multilateral nuclear disarmament , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ How does one explain the Labour leader 's contortions ? |
| 2 | Is the attempt to make such a separation meaningful , and above all can one devise the appropriate form of highly reductionist experiment which will enable a distinction to be made between these processes ? |
| 3 | How might one reconcile the two approaches , while yet acknowledging the deep-rooted differences between them ? |
| 4 | How can one detect the early signs of relapse ? |
| 5 | For only on foot does one detect the subtle rise and fall of ground to which the earliest settlers were so sensitive , or alignments in the town scene that may throw light on some fundamental change of plan : or the names of streets and lanes that set the mind working at once . |
| 6 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |
| 7 | Only so can one appreciate the tactile as well as the visual qualities that render it attractive . |
| 8 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 9 | Interviews with the director ( in City Limits and Time Out ) and reviews in film journals further emphasized aesthetic merits and attempted to place the film within an artistic-cinematic canon — dare one mention the greatest of all directors , Bresson ? |
| 10 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 11 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 12 | Can one raise the dead ? ’ |
| 13 | His words made one recall the excellent reports compiled by Ian Paisley 's Assembly Agriculture Committee and Sheila Magee about the industry in the mid 1980s . |
| 14 | How then could one get the necessary co-ordination at ministerial level and make a reality of collective discussion and responsibility ? |
| 15 | How , for example , should one handle the dressed fleas and their garments in terms of a computer record ? |
| 16 | How does one determine the average length of an English sentence ? |
| 17 | The belief in the broadcasting market is not without its difficulties : how can a multiplicity of channels be introduced so as to allow for consumer choice and how does one overcome the possible detrimental consequences of the market mechanism ? |