Example sentences of "one [Wh pn] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem is defined , technically , as the ‘ experience of the right kind of reader has when he peruses the verses ’ ( Richards 1926 : 10 ) ) , and the right kind of reader is the one who manages to recreate in himself more or less completely the collection of impulses which the poet expressed in the poem or , more exactly , the ‘ relevant experience of the poet when contemplating the completed composition ’ ( Richards 1967 : 178 ) . |
| 2 | This new type of farmer is one who refuses to submit to nature , who rebels against passivity and fatalism and who dares to innovate . ’ |
| 3 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
| 4 | You 're not the one who 's got to . |
| 5 | He is the one who has reacted to success by becoming obsessive about peace and quiet , about making time to read books and see friends . |
| 6 | This from one who has majored in sneaking out of bad acting in theatres all over the world . |
| 7 | I write as one who has cycled for over 40 years and who rides between 8,000 and 9,000 miles per year ( I am an occasional motorist too ) . |
| 8 | A woman who offers hospitality to guests is more honourable than one who has to take in lodgers for a fee . |
| 9 | As Demetrius said , ‘ There is no man unhappy as one who has met with no adversity . ’ |
| 10 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 11 | He replied , ‘ Like one who has risen in the morning and does not know whether he will be dead in the evening . ’ |
| 12 | No one who has gone through medical school would deny the influence of role models , and no one who has pursued a career in medicine , particularly hospital medicine , would discount the part played by patronage . |
| 13 | Through the preparation of his body for burial , the deceased had undergone s'akhu or glorification and was described as " one who has gone to his Akh " . |
| 14 | Frodsham hotelier George Harrison , who runs the Queens Head , is one who has complained to Vale Royal Council about rats on the railway behind his business . |
| 15 | Frodsham hotelier George Harrison , who runs the Queens Head , is one who has complained to Vale Royal council about rats on the railway behind his business . |
| 16 | An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming . |
| 17 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 18 | As one who has listened to nothing as often as BM 's solo albums these last two years ( OK , you 've established your credentials , now come to the point — IM ) I can not speak highly enough of the man ( try a step-ladder — IM ) . |
| 19 | No one who has listened to this debate so far , let alone anyone who listens to it between now and 10 o'clock , will believe that assertion for a moment . |
| 20 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’ |
| 22 | The curious , at times seemingly perverse , ambiguity in which the terms of the contract are from time to time expressed is an added reason why no one who has to wrestle with the problems which abound in this area should fail to arm himself with this book . |
| 23 | On the contrary Corinth was very rich in agricultural land , as no one who has climbed to the top of the Akrokorinth can doubt . |
| 24 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 25 | No one who has worked through this book should come out writing typically vague literary essays where " language flows " or the text is " effective " . |