Example sentences of "[conj] one [vb -s] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is when one comes to look at the application of the directive , and , in particular , at the small print of some other member states ' legislation , that one sees it is not so simple . |
| 2 | Normally then , in cooperative circumstances , when one asserts something one implicates that one believes it , when one asks a question one implicates that one sincerely desires an answer and , by extension , when one promises to do x , one implicates that one sincerely intends to do x , and so on . |
| 3 | It is when there are two diners present , even when one of them is one 's own employer , that one finds it most difficult to achieve that balance between attentiveness and the illusion of absence that is essential to good waiting ; it is in this situation that one is rarely free of the suspicion that one 's presence is inhibiting the conversation . |
| 4 | Clearly , the answer was ‘ No ’ , and one suspects it would have been the same answer whatever the political flavour of the government in office at the time . |
| 5 | And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour . |
| 6 | Generally , and one says it graciously , sectorisation has worked , the eighties seeing it flowering and bringing both improvements and cost savings . |
| 7 | If the day hospital is to stay , and one hopes it is , then a return to previous staffing levels are essential . |
| 8 | Ben can do it because … well , he 's a man , and one expects it from a man . |
| 9 | Then it stops , and one throws it away . |
| 10 | One is not really aware of the pain as being in a certain place ; one is aware of the pain , and one connects it with a certain place , rather as one connects different sorts of sensations with different sorts of malady — rheumatism , indigestion , and so on . |
| 11 | Taken as a whole , it appears relatively standardized , particularly if one compares it with that in the USA . |
| 12 | ( A sentimental view if one contrasts it with Nina Hamnett 's , who said that most people found him an awful nuisance . ) |
| 13 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 14 | The disease does not go away if one ignores it : progressive decline is inexorable . |
| 15 | But sometimes it is frightening , thinking of the struggle life is if one takes it seriously . |
| 16 | Er , I du n no what you think but I mean it does state there , it 's quite interesting if one reads it out |
| 17 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 18 | A particle of spin 2 is like a double-headed arrow ( Fig. 5.1-iii ) : it looks the same if one turns it round half a revolution ( 180 degrees ) . |
| 19 | One speaks with linguistic propriety and sincerity when saying ‘ it will rain this afternoon ’ if and only if one believes it will ; the truth of the matter has nothing to do with it . |
| 20 | If one believes it to be true that Christ is the Son of God one sees why one should be Christian . |
| 21 | Anti-Americanism has old roots in Germany , at least if one sees it as a continuation of the anti-liberal , anti-mercantilist sentiments of ‘ Englandhass ’ ( dislike of England ) . |
| 22 | That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now . |
| 23 | So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction , provided one views it on a scale large compared to the distance between galaxies , and ignores the differences on small scales . |
| 24 | There 's not much to choose between them really ; they both cut meat up but one eats it and the other pickles it . |
| 25 | The fact that his form has been positively Bradmanesque may have something to do with this , but one suspects it has more to do with the ‘ Get Out of Jail Free ’ card he appears to be clutching . |
| 26 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |
| 27 | The ‘ oral ’ approach , whether one calls it a ‘ natural ’ or ‘ modern ’ approach , has been in operation since the time educators stopped learning BSL . |
| 28 | and whether one calls it fair and objective argument |
| 29 | By contrast , scientific knowledge is bound up with rationalism and , whether one wishes it or not , rationalism is allied to science , and demands scientific goals . |
| 30 | ( Sometimes the discussion of rebirth sounds like Shirley Maclean 's writings on ‘ channelling ’ , though one suspects it is not meant to . ) |