Example sentences of "one [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in conclusion , one may also see community mental handicap teams embarking ( albeit hesitantly ) on a new phase of development . |
| 2 | One should therefore have regard to as far as possible , the eventual size . |
| 3 | I think that without these basic reactions art could not exist , but one can not explain art wholly in terms of these reactions ; one must also take account of our self-denials . |
| 4 | Much though I understand the worries expressed by residents of the district to be served by the hospital , one must also take account of the basis of their concern , and the misinformation which has caused their alarm . |
| 5 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 6 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 7 | The central thesis is that " coding creates reality rather than simply reporting it " ; but to suggest that " simple reporting " is how one might normally see coding functioning in relation to reality is to presuppose a very naive view . |
| 8 | He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age ; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well , one might suddenly achieve equilibrium , certainty , serenity . |
| 9 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 10 | One could instead increase mutation rates artificially : if doubling mutation rates doubled senescence , or if a slight increase in the mutation rate produced catastrophic senescence ( Box 2 ) , then this would suggest a substantial effect of mutation in the original population . |
| 11 | This may be a difficult question to answer , and indeed these techniques may not be comparable , unless one could simultaneously measure function and visualise the squamous columnar junction , which is very difficult . |
| 12 | No one could ever accuse Glass of a lack of ambition . |
| 13 | No one could possibly take exception to this Mathis infant . |
| 14 | One could then regard law conceptually as a wholly empty series of ought statements to which content is added not by any logical deductions from some fundamental principles or from any material content lurking within the ‘ ought ’ itself but from the acts and decisions of the lawmakers in a society . |
| 15 | If the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system were sometimes or always lower than the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system , one could then explain subception ( gaining access to the meaning of a word without being able to report the word ) and also semantic errors which occur in the condition known as deep dyslexia in which single printed words are often incorrectly read as semantically related words , e.g. reading storm as thunder . |
| 16 | Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor . |
| 17 | But one need not believe that God revealed God 's self at a particular point in history , so that one need necessarily make reference to that point in history in one 's religion . |
| 18 | In fact , he had no great enthusiasm for the approaching conflict : he believed , as others did , that a short war would leave the essential problems unchanged while a long one would simply provoke unrest in the civilian population . |
| 19 | First , there is direct inconsistency in the sense that compliance with one would necessarily constitute breach of the other . |
| 20 | Logarithmic ways would have meant there would be , there would have been no limit in fact , one could have always gone to , to , one would essentially have minus infinity as , as the lowest . |
| 21 | There are times when one would almost relish amnesia . |
| 22 | In this tightly knit situation there can be no escape and what upsets one will eventually cause chaos among all . |
| 23 | Examination of long stretches of numerical data , together with other methods of analysis , have shown that it is indeed varying chaotically ; that is to say , no matter how long the fluctuations continue , one will never find repetition of the detailed pattern . |
| 24 | A new mole around an existing one can also mean trouble . |
| 25 | There are two main methods of measuring costs : one can either include only public expenditure costs , or one can also include opportunity costs . |
| 26 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 27 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 28 | No one can really do business on 40 quid a week . |
| 29 | After all , one can only make peace with one 's enemies . |
| 30 | He told him committee last week that staff at Coed Glas were in a difficult situation and ‘ one can only have sympathy with them ’ . |