Example sentences of "one 's [noun sg] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The love of God and of one 's neighbour is more valuable than sacrifice . |
| 2 | Even if one 's occupation is freely chosen , it usually carries with it a set of rules about what should be done , when , how and to what standards . |
| 3 | This apparent rejection of one 's race is often accompanied by a desire not to stand out , not to cause trouble , to tip-toe about hoping nobody will notice you . |
| 4 | One 's behaviour is strongly determined by what one believes of oneself , as well as what one is . |
| 5 | One 's voice is very important . |
| 6 | One 's experience is certainly in some sense not of two things . |
| 7 | In such an organization one 's boss is forever seeking to cover himself and to avoid taking responsibility . |
| 8 | But the situation is complicated by the knowledge that in one 's all too brief absence the space left by one 's departure is already in process of closing over — new topics are in hand and one might create offence to the members of the reconstituted group by seeming to re-insert oneself . |
| 9 | I choose first names , which at first sight seem to be completely uninteresting , except insofar as one anxiously awaits the frequency counts published in The Times each year to see whether one 's name is still ‘ in ’ . |
| 10 | " One 's name is never in the book . " |
| 11 | A disastrous war in which one 's country is so unprepared it 's a push-over for the other side . |
| 12 | Wearing a Dupatta over one 's head is also a sign of respect for elders ( and for God : a Sikh woman entering a Gurdwara ( Sikh temple ) always covers her head with a Dupatta ) . |
| 13 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 14 | If he does not , he has in effect accepted at one time the proposition ( the matter put upon the mat ) ‘ Telling even a minor lie to advance one 's career is always wrong , even though it harms no one ’ and at another time ‘ Telling a minor lie , which harms no one , in order to advance one 's career is not always wrong ’ . |
| 15 | Opening one 's studio is always a disruption to work . |
| 16 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 17 | But the routine is never quite routine , so the vacuum in one 's mind is never vacuous enough to be filled . |
| 18 | The temptation to follow a fantail flitting in front of one 's face is often hard to resist . |
| 19 | First , because identification with one 's community is morally worthwhile , and acceptance of the authority of the state an appropriate way ( though not the only way ) to express it , one may jump to the conclusion that one has an obligation to accept the authority of the state , or even that it has authority independently of such acceptance . |
| 20 | When one is selling , one 's duty is basically to obtain the money agreed , and to relieve one 's client of any obligations relating to the property sold , and the mortgage redeemed . |
| 21 | This ability to manipulate economic analysis to suit one 's argument is undoubtedly a weakness . |
| 22 | The standards of the best are set by the competition and one 's aim is always to exceed them . |
| 23 | At King 's Lynn one 's curiosity is immediately aroused by two great market places with a splendid church beside each : the Saturday market shadowed by St Margaret 's church , the Tuesday market by St Nicholas . |