Example sentences of "one have [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 's rather old , so one has to be frightfully careful , but I know you will be .
2 Each one has to be carefully designed .
3 When the Congregational Union officially urged this new course on the colleges in 1902 there was still a long way to go : A. M. Fairbairn warned Sir Alfred Dale , then Principal of University College , Liverpool , ‘ I think one has to be very careful as to giving the theological colleges power over the regulation of degrees .
4 ‘ I 'm sure it is , too , ’ said their Guider , ‘ but one has to be very careful about offering money to proud and independent old folk like Miss Miggs . ’
5 ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived .
6 One has to be very clear-headed to do what I am doing .
7 The optimistic consensus is that they do n't but that one has to be very careful about making them , and the level of detail one can achieve may not be as great as one may like .
8 Of course , one has to be very cautious about making such predictions .
9 What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another .
10 I think one has to be very careful here .
11 So it 's not necessarily that one has to be too critical of all the individual items in the way that some people have .
12 One has to be so careful .
13 I have come across many people who have bought their binoculars from railway lost-property offices , though naturally one has to be doubly careful .
14 Finally , inevitably in a review of this kind covering such a complex and multi-faceted area , one has to be highly selective in the sources one draws upon .
15 One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic .
16 With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying .
17 I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that .
18 To deal with a pundit one had to be either a sister , senior staff nurse , or a rare fourth-year on nights .
19 In war one had to be utterly ruthless .
20 I 'd have thought one had to be very bright indeed even to get in ? ’
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