Example sentences of "one [verb] that the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether one thinks that the differences between the programmes are big or small , or too big or too small , depends on value judgements and political perspectives . |
| 2 | A conservative could adduce , in support of this contention , the fact that in scripture God is overwhelmingly conceptualized by using male metaphors ; that God came in Christ , a male human person ; and that he chose men alone to head the church ( if one thinks that the calling of the twelve bears a relation to the constitution of the church ) . |
| 3 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 4 | No long experience of membership of a constituency party is necessary to enable one to guess that the selection of Irish candidates does not always proceed smoothly . |
| 5 | If instead one accepts that the goal of a pragmatic theory is to predict the meaning , in the broad Gricean sense , of an utterance in a specified context , then none of these difficulties arises . |
| 6 | If one accepts that the area of the event horizon is analogous to entropy , then it would seem that the surface gravity is analogous to temperature . |
| 7 | But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed . |
| 8 | How does one ensure that the history of their generation — who received them and when , and how they relate to other items of information — is fully documented ( Zweig 1992 ) ? |
| 9 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 10 | One commented that the use of economic information ‘ can often be an excuse for inaction ’ ! |
| 11 | The finding of Butler and Glass ( 1974 ) that the magnitude of the CNV was greater over the left hemisphere prior to a verbal task and greater over the right hemisphere prior to a facial discrimination task might lead one to expect that the direction of CNV asymmetry can be predicted on the basis of selective hemispheric involvement in particular tasks . |
| 12 | No one pretends that the calculation of the multiplier is a scientific operation and no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down for calculating it . |
| 13 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 14 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |
| 15 | Yet over and over again , one finds that the application to problems in old age has to be made , that prevailing attitudes have discouraged appropriate and sensitive appraisal of the intergenerational or marital dynamics , and of the emotional reactions of carers , which can lead to abuse . |
| 16 | ‘ It took a few years before one saw that the contact with , and knowledge of , industry , the dialogue , needed to be restored . ’ |
| 17 | One suspects that the language of this definition would alarm and antagonize many teachers in the average British school staffroom ; no doubt this is unnecessary , but one welcomes the admirable simplicity of Derek Rowntree : |
| 18 | At l'Estaque , Braque was working from nature but one feels that the forms in his painting have not been suggested by those of particular landscapes but rather that he has imposed on the natural scene his own austere , angular , almost geometrical form of vision . |
| 19 | Even if one thought that the pursuit of such predictions was useful , a great deal more information would be required , including a knowledge of the extent to which the rules were broken . |
| 20 | The most credible explanation offered by those who support the existence of the monster is one assuming that the passages to the open sea have remained open . |
| 21 | This is a worrying trend particularly when one considers that the experts at DDRC can not as yet offer an explanation . |
| 22 | When one considers that the rents for the poorest housing were often as high , per square foot , as those of the wealthy middle class , his argument may seem less unconvincing ; but of course , the area per person regarded as model involved a greater number of square feet . |
| 23 | Under the no boundary proposal one learns that the chance of the universe being found to be following most of the possible histories is negligible , but there is a particular family of histories that are much more probable than the others . |
| 24 | ‘ It was not logic that carried might one say that the quicksilver in the barometer changes the weather . |
| 25 | The argument that high taxes reduce the flow of private savings for investment in industry is only important if one believes that the ownership of industry should be in private hands . |
| 26 | Only if one believes that the prospect of privatization is the only way to improve management performance in nationalized industries can one attribute the benefit to privatization itself . |
| 27 | One suggests that the change in the intragastric environment after vagotomy leads to an increased concentration of potentially carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds within the stomach . |
| 28 | For example there is very good correlation between the arrival of swallows and summer , but no one suggests that the presence of swallows causes summer . |