Example sentences of "one [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Wildsen 's The Power of One fits the bill perfectly . |
| 2 | It is when one recognizes the variations in peasant advancement among even individuals in a single community , as well as from one village or one region to another , that one appreciates the need for caution in calling the fifteenth century the golden age of the English labourer . |
| 3 | One understands the route as to why the erm Liberal Democrats wish to pursue that . |
| 4 | Otherwise the syllable before the last one receives the stress : ‘ consonant ’ ; ‘ military ’ . |
| 5 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 6 | No one doubts the right of the patient with kidney disease to decline treatment . |
| 7 | No one doubts the seriousness of the problems Mr Major must address , the recession foremost among them . |
| 8 | However , no one doubts the quality of Irises or the Pontormo . |
| 9 | No one doubts the professionalism of the vast majority of public servants . |
| 10 | It is either an illusion , or a delusion , depending upon how realistic one thinks the belief to be . |
| 11 | Wherever the game is , is home ; so one plays the sauna like poker , with narrowing intensity . |
| 12 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 13 | With each path there are associated a couple of numbers : one represents the size of a wave and the other represents the position in the cycle ( i.e. , whether it is at a crest or a trough ) . |
| 14 | In the one 's complement method , any pattern whose sign bit is one represents the negative of a number obtained by replacing one by zero and zero by one in each bit position . |
| 15 | In the third method , two 's complement , any pattern whose sign bit is one represents the negative of a number obtained by inverting all bits and adding one . |
| 16 | One notices the colour of living ‘ yellow ’ against a dull and bleak , ‘ cold ’ and ‘ bare ’ , background . |
| 17 | And just in case no one notices the error , the letterheading has been corrected by hand . |
| 18 | Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing . |
| 19 | No one questions the dedication of those who work in the NHS . |
| 20 | And every proof or dis-proof can be readily evaded , if one questions the truth of its premisses , or the validity of its type of inference , or if one finds new senses in which its terms may be used . |
| 21 | THESE days , no one questions the importance of good books for the under-fives . |
| 22 | Yet every year one questions the quality of many BR decisions . |
| 23 | One covers the composing aspects and concerns language meaning , use and structure : the organisation , form and patterns of writing . |
| 24 | It follows that , if one starts the week on Monday , next Thursday is ambiguous only on Monday and Tuesday ( Fillmore , 1971b ) . |
| 25 | One holds the spindle steady whilst the other fits into the twin holes on the wheel nut and tightens the disc in place . |
| 26 | And no one holds the shaman , he is alone |
| 27 | This entails personal views and values , a judgement about the degree of respect in which one holds the view of other people and a sense of whether something is being sacrificed or enhanced as a result of making adjustments . |
| 28 | For their third cinematic adventure of the decade ( unless one counts the showing of George V 's funeral ) , they booked tickets at the cinema in Great Malvern to see Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves It turned out to be ‘ first rate … |
| 29 | Another one bites the dust : Zeos International Ltd reports that a US district court dismissed a class action shareholder suit against it because the plaintiffs failed to provide specific facts that were material to the trial : the suit was filed last September , alleging that the company failed to disclose the formation of its new subsidiary , Occidental Corp , to manufacture and market lower cost computers under a new brand name , a development revealed by the Wall Street Journal . |
| 30 | If one accepts the idea that there was a deal between MI6 and the KGB then at the end of the day everyone was satisfied . |