Example sentences of "[subord] one [vb -s] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If one thinks of what was done one must also think of those who did it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And furthermore , ‘ one will understand nouns and verbs better if one thinks of the role that they adopt in narrative ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 … . |
| 16 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 19 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , these shareholders are not the persons generally meant when one speaks of membership of the clearing house . |