Example sentences of "who one is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is good to be reminded of who one is in relation to others who know a bit of one 's past ; where one ‘ is coming from ’ . |
| 2 | As Eugene Roosens says in Creating Ethnicity , the book which , with Frederik Barth 's Ethnic Groups I have found particularly helpful : ‘ After all , nobody can change ‘ the past ’ from which one descends , and nobody can undo who one is ’ . |
| 3 | There is a strong theme around autonomy and identity , the struggle between being a person knowing who one is , and then being put in a dependent role through some process of infirmity . |
| 4 | But to be all too sure of oneself — of who one is , of what one wants — might easily mean riding for a fall , and heroes in that style are prudently disinclined to flaunt their state of mind or to recommend it to others . |
| 5 | At home rewards are ‘ ascriptive ’ , depending on who one is rather than on what one does . |
| 6 | It has one senior bishop , two suffragans , one dean , four archdeacons , and 21 rural deans of who one is a woman . |
| 7 | One is who one is . |
| 8 | Being who one is . |
| 9 | One is who one is , so one does what one does . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not a great deal one can do , ’ he says , ‘ if one is who one is in this particular case . ’ |
| 11 | The less one is who one thinks one ought to be , the more one is who one is . |