Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debut screenwriter Adam Brooks may one day direct for British producers Enigma , while Gary Oldman waits patiently to play cleverly-worded ‘ hero ’ John Self . |
| 2 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 3 | If we had known that our ceaseless lionisation of El Kylo would one day result in a pop band saying they preferred the raging sexy raunch of her latest single to the droning early-'70s lard-rock of The Cure ! |
| 4 | Executives told them to " fuck off " and got on with dreaming how DPR might one day set up " Down Under " , where various bucket shops operated . |
| 5 | I worry that Strach might one day be the candidate for Scotland mgr . |
| 6 | Ireland may one day be a united nation , but it can not be done and should not be done from London . |
| 7 | If Scotland should one day become independent , with its own monarch , then union with Ulster might seem more acceptable to all . |
| 8 | Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War . |
| 9 | Although it enshrined the idea that Spain would one day be ruled by a prince of the blood , the key concept was " one day " , for no date was specified for this event . |
| 10 | He wanted to be gone , even though Deuce made reassuring promises and Doug could one day turn out to be a friend . |
| 11 | At the very least , he will make it plain that Israel must one day let go of most of the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 12 | Her family remained supportive , despite the emotional load : they remained hopeful that Rose would one day regain the motivation to try to help herself , and therefore the people around her . |
| 13 | " Was not Schwarzenberg himself [ the Austrian first minister who died in 1852 ] alleged to have declared that Austria would one day astound the world by the greatness of her ingratitude ? " |
| 14 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 15 | If things continue at this rate of terror , the white population of South Africa will one day divide into those cowering behind tall walls and those driving mobile-response vehicles . |
| 16 | She told Belgian-born Count de Beaumont that Mellor could one day be Prime Minister and that she ‘ liked him very much . ’ |
| 17 | She 's somebody who is quite obsessed with power and powerful men and she loved the idea that Mellor would one day be Premier . |
| 18 | ‘ Even if I never said it clearly , it was always written that Barphone would one day or another throw itself in with a powerful group ’ he declared . |
| 19 | In the long term , it 's hoped that Swindon will one day have a shelter specifically for homeless women . |
| 20 | Luring Gatting down the track at Ilford and shivering timber constituted something of a coup , as does Graham Gooch 's belief that Shahid will one day succeed ‘ Charlie ’ Childs as the second Chelmsford twirler . |
| 21 | While she knows that Prince William will one day become king she is firm in her belief that she will never become queen . |
| 22 | The Foulkes live in hope Andrew may one day come home cured to them . |
| 23 | PAUL INCE will one day inspire Manchester United — just like his hero Bryan Robson has done . |
| 24 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 25 | That the Hall was sometimes used as a refuge for recusants and fugitive priests was the subject of frequent speculation among the fishermen who gathered in Mother Russell 's alehouse , but if some knew more than others , they were n't saying : no one could ever be sure , after all , whether Elizabeth might one day be toppled by Queen Mary of Scotland , and England taken back into the arms of Rome all over again . |
| 26 | Most fell in line with the view that The Smiths would one day produce the perfect artifact and that ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ was most definitely a step in the right direction . |
| 27 | That same year , Schoenberg completed his Variations for Orchestra , Op. 31 , which Karajan would one day remove from the concert-hall to the recording studio to make one of the artistically most successful and technologically most radical of all twentieth-century gramophone recordings . |
| 28 | Otherwise the London Boroughs are now multipurpose authorities , reviving hopes amongst some observers that the large towns of England and Wales might one day regain their ‘ county borough ’ status , leaving the county councils free to pursue their former traditional , more rural , role in collaboration with the small parish , town and community councils . |
| 29 | The products will initially be manufactured in the US , though the possibility that Olivetti could one day manufacture them in Europe , for Europe , has not been ruled out in the longer term . |
| 30 | Lord Russell will one day answer to God for his own choice , and our place is not to prejudge the issue . |