Example sentences of "one [vb -s] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one doubts that the move will have significant lasting effects on the world of Unix and its relations . |
| 2 | Whether one thinks that the differences between the programmes are big or small , or too big or too small , depends on value judgements and political perspectives . |
| 3 | A conservative could adduce , in support of this contention , the fact that in scripture God is overwhelmingly conceptualized by using male metaphors ; that God came in Christ , a male human person ; and that he chose men alone to head the church ( if one thinks that the calling of the twelve bears a relation to the constitution of the church ) . |
| 4 | No one thinks that the party , with its umbilical connections to business , will fail to outspend Labour several-fold in the campaign ; but Lord Beaverbrook and his fellow treasurers , John Cope and Lord Laing , have their work cut out . |
| 5 | This is equally frustrating when one notices that the coffins appearing on a series of five resurrection monuments executed by John and Mathias Christmas between 1628 and 1640 are also of this type . |
| 6 | One holds that the writer does most of the work beforehand , laying a plan that is rather like an egg — and the story hatches , almost of its own accord . |
| 7 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 8 | Even if one accepts that the thesis accounts for why blacks are overrepresented in reactive activities such as boxing and soccer , and underrepresented in self-paced sports such as golf and swimming , it does not explain why blacks do not excel in such reactive sports as motor racing , tennis , fencing , squash or even skiing ! |
| 9 | If instead one accepts that the goal of a pragmatic theory is to predict the meaning , in the broad Gricean sense , of an utterance in a specified context , then none of these difficulties arises . |
| 10 | If one accepts that the area of the event horizon is analogous to entropy , then it would seem that the surface gravity is analogous to temperature . |
| 11 | But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed . |
| 12 | When successive instabilities have reduced the level of predictability so much that it is appropriate to describe a flow statistically , rather than in every detail , then one says that the flow is turbulent . |
| 13 | Hence , if the learning phenomenon appropriate to a particular firm indicates that average costs ( over cumulative volume to date , not average cost in the year ) will fall by 20 per cent each time cumulative output doubles , one says that the learning rate is 80 per cent on 0.8 |
| 14 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike . |
| 16 | One sees that the fluctuations are now occurring throughout but with a trend towards less regularity . |
| 17 | If one looks at the majority of market experiments in which convergence to the market equilibrium is rapid , one sees that the decision-problem solved by the subjects in such experiments is relatively simple ; recently , however , there have been a number of more complicated market experiments in which the subjects face more complicated decision-problems . |
| 18 | This makes excellent sense when one recognises that the UN 's operations are actually helping to save further defence costs by preventing escalation into wider wars and by providing a form of collective burden sharing for peace-keeping purposes . |
| 19 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |
| 20 | No one pretends that the calculation of the multiplier is a scientific operation and no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down for calculating it . |
| 21 | Causality is here contrasted with indeterminacy : either one pretends that the origin of psychological peculiarities is known and that it has the force of explanation , as in classical psychoanalysis , or one chooses to relinquish this concept and to see identity as a matter of discontinuity and flux . |
| 22 | Although many are taking the decade seriously ( Africa is doubling its spending ) no one pretends that the world will reach its target . |
| 23 | When one considers the whole spectrum of economic indicators one finds that the north looks surprisingly healthy . |
| 24 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 25 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |
| 26 | As soon as one investigates which people actually marry each other one finds that the lightning shaft of Cupid seems to be guided rather strongly within very definite channels of class , income , education , racial and religious background . |
| 27 | If , however , one observes the motion for a longer time , one finds that the size , ellipticity and orientation of the orbit are continuously changing . |
| 28 | Yet over and over again , one finds that the application to problems in old age has to be made , that prevailing attitudes have discouraged appropriate and sensitive appraisal of the intergenerational or marital dynamics , and of the emotional reactions of carers , which can lead to abuse . |
| 29 | The idea of vortex stretching ( Section 6.6 ) is central to these processes , and one notes that the vortex tubes in Fig. 21.11 are aligned so that they are being stretched by the mean shear — cf. |
| 30 | One suspects that the position has been more complex where middle-class parents are concerned ; such parents may well be more assertive , and keen to support discipline but perhaps more divided about how it should be achieved . |