Example sentences of "[conj] one [vb -s] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is from Luke that one learns of Paul 's conversion and mission . |
| 2 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 3 | But there clung about her something that seemed much older , ten years older , a sort of coolness — not coldness or indifference , but a limpid aloofness ; coolness in the way that one thinks of coolness on a hot summer 's day . |
| 4 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 5 | Although one means of detachment from the world is a spiritual asceticism based upon a lack of material possessions , more common has been the desire to accumulate luxuries and objects which themselves signify the lack of any need to engage directly in productive labour . |
| 6 | If one thinks of what was done one must also think of those who did it . ’ |
| 7 | If one thinks of the DNA codes for proteins as records in a jukebox , the problem is to understand why one disc , say the haemoglobin theme , is played only in red blood cells while another , the albumin theme , is played only in liver cells . |
| 8 | The farmers and shepherds in the valleys may seem to have lived an isolated existence , if one thinks of Michael , but the wool from the sheep would be carded and spun in the cottages , and ultimately sent to the towns . |
| 9 | But it no longer seems so queer if one thinks of rationality as starting not in inference from observations but in the testing of spontaneous expectations , just as in our theory of valuation it starts from choice between spontaneous inclinations . |
| 10 | If one thinks of feeling a sensation in some part of one 's body on the pattern of being aware of the position of something , then the fact that position is not a quality will seem relevant . |
| 11 | And furthermore , ‘ one will understand nouns and verbs better if one thinks of the role that they adopt in narrative ’ . |
| 12 | But for all its forced and rather infuriating serenity , the letter 's tone was partially warranted , if one thinks of all that France and de Gaulle had been through since June 1940 . |
| 13 | Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself . |
| 14 | Since the precise criteria of synonymy can not be defined , it is argued , there can be no useful work for this concept to do ; unless one thinks of synonymy merely as one of " degree " . |
| 15 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 16 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |
| 17 | Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections . |
| 18 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 19 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 20 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 21 | The total area dealt with before 1760 could hardly have exceeded 400,000 acres , a negligible amount when one thinks of England as a whole — only just over one per cent . |
| 22 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 23 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 24 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 25 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 26 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 27 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 28 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 29 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 30 | When one speaks of the intention of the parties to the contract one is speaking objectively — the parties can not themselves give direct evidence of what their intention was . |