Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] one [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem plausible enough , especially where one can identify an explicit methodological element in the discipline — experimental method in science , survey methods in sociology , design in technology , diagnosis in medicine . |
| 2 | So although one would seek to eradicate any sense of prejudice against employing mentally handicapped people , there is no justification for positive prejudice on behalf of the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 4 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 5 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 6 | You have no idea of how much coal is needed to keep a small grate going so that one might cook . ’ |
| 7 | Also field independence increases with age , so that one would tend to predict better learning with grammatical approaches with older people . |
| 8 | So that one would come out then at erm just over a hundred pounds . |
| 9 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 10 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 11 | The Fen country around Coton was very flat , with water-filled dykes instead of hedges , and few trees , so that one could see long distances without the view being obstructed — ‘ right to the horizon , ’ Cheryl reported excitedly to her mummy in one of her letters home . |
| 12 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 13 | Erm and er it was er it was a ramp basically , er up here , so that one could run straight off that ramp , onto this flat truck . |
| 14 | For that matter , a computer catalogue could relate different demands together , so that one could find out what was in the collection in tape-slide format on the emigration of Cornish tin-miners to southern Wisconsin in the nineteenth century , suitable for advanced students in the sixth form ( ages 17–18 ) . |
| 15 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 16 | It should be both a dialogue with experience and a dialogue with living religions so that one can interpret and reinforce the other " ( p. 43 ) . |
| 17 | What you need to do is to be able to provide a private sector a certain level of certainty , that the concession will be er granted long enough so that one can recover both your costs an=and certainly be able to make a profit and so er to the extent that the franchises that are being considered are short natured , seven years , er that becomes rather disadvantageous and unattractive er concessions of twenty and thirty and forty years , and and really thirty thirty to forty year period er do make it in fact make it very attractive for private sector involvement . |
| 18 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 19 | It is important , therefore , to be clear about the differences as well as the similarities so that one can know what to query as well as what to accept in the concepts . |
| 20 | 2 oranges ( one to eat , one for when children say : ‘ What happened in an orangery ? ’ so that one can say ; ‘ They grew oranges — oh , look here 's one ! , taking it from a Greek statue 's ear ) |
| 21 | A small extract from the hierarchy is shown here so that one can see the path from the root of the hierarchy to each of the words in Figure 6 |
| 22 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 23 | Testing machines now exist which have vice-like grips , called ‘ friction grips ’ , so that one can take an ordinary bar of metal , cut off a short length , and break it in tension . |
| 24 | Having no engine , gliders are delightfully silent , except for a slight noise from the wind so that one can hear the structure very well . |
| 25 | Finding the right anaesthetic , so that one can keep the chick functionally alive for the hours required for the recording , proved surprisingly tricky . |
| 26 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 27 | In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties . |
| 28 | Here the customer can browse through picture boards devoted to each artist , selecting a style and price to suit , much as one might choose an haute couture outfit . |
| 29 | The first is that while most of the fast movements are much as one might have surmised ( although the vite sections of the last movement of the Te Deum are notably faster than often performed ) , some of the slow movements are considerably slower than one usually hears them , suggesting a rather wider range of tempos in use in the early 18th century in France than that to which we are accustomed today . |
| 30 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |