Example sentences of "one [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One instinctively knows when something is shite ! |
| 2 | Newman came to the answer Rome ; the former friends he left behind in the Church of England replied that the early undivided Church had been the only one wholly to contain this supernatural essence . |
| 3 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 4 | The Darlington result has always been one keenly watched by national political pundits it is traditionally a barometer of the way in which the nation generally is set to swing . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a market in Russia ’ concluded Fraser — ‘ one frustratingly stifled by the lack of foreign currency , but one that could yield results in the long term . ’ |
| 6 | Describes prisoners about to be transported to prison from a police station , in particular two younger sisters , the elder hardened to it all but the younger one bitterly distressed . |
| 7 | But comradely conversation shows that I 'm not the only one nervously remembering 1970 , when faked opinion polls were used to rally the Tory vote . |
| 8 | Luke asked as he and Maria stepped out of another lift , this one mercifully crowded , on their return to her apartment . |
| 9 | The most complex of all major west-European frontiers , and the one most studied by historians , was the eastern and north-eastern boundary of France . |
| 10 | The one most called upon to handle the situation was Brigid O'Donovan , and she seems to have managed very well . |
| 11 | It 's some consolation to reflect that of all the UK citizens undergoing the death experience , Leo was probably the one most prepared for it . |
| 12 | Of those parties perhaps the one most aggrieved by the determination was the local authority and accordingly on 14 February 1992 they issued the notice of motion which brings the appeal into this court today . |
| 13 | Meg Ryan plays Morrison 's common-law wife , Pamela Courson , and of all the people involved in Stone 's $40 million movie , she seems the one most affected by the story 's dark undertones . |
| 14 | Of all counties the one most affected by the transformation of the open arable fields was Northamptonshire . |
| 15 | Currently , Melody Maker , written by a verbose array of excitable young ideologues , is the most dissenting and innotative of the four general titles and the one most inclined to put some avant garde confection like the sugar Cubes on the front page before anyone else has heard of them . |
| 16 | ( ‘ Doctor ’ was a title which people used somewhat freely when the heat of argument led them to assert their tribal group was the one most qualified by objective criteria of modernity to rule a district . ) |
| 17 | Of the several planning techniques described , PERT is the one most discussed , though not necessarily most used , in industry . |
| 18 | Of the several planning techniques described , PERT is the one most discussed , though not necessarily most used , in industry . |
| 19 | There are three variants of lotion to enable the stylist to choose one most suited to the client 's hair condition and needs . |
| 20 | The things ‘ one most misses in the Nonconformist church-building of today are character , self-reliance , individuality ’ . |
| 21 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 22 | In an open society , the law must do neither too much nor too little , which is why the shifting sands of community standards have their place in the field of indecency , but not obscenity , the latter being a far more serious offence and one properly grounded in the fundamental values without which no civilised society can survive . |
| 23 | I do n't think we did this one properly did we ? you only use your right hand cos you push on that foot |
| 24 | Just when one had decided to go no farther , one caught a glimpse of something ahead , challenging , enigmatic , and one wearily set off again . |
| 25 | A motion calling for the signing of an overseas professional was rejected unanimously ; only three votes were recorded in favour , one presumably Boycott 's , of signing players born outside the county . |
| 26 | This last privilege is one presumably allowed the artist but not the model . |
| 27 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 28 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 29 | When one speaks under duress — you should know this — one rarely speaks the truth . ’ |
| 30 | But one rarely thinks that clearly about things one has no experience of . |