Example sentences of "one should not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One should not comment on how far the views which conservatives hold are a rationalization of a misogynist stance . |
2 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
3 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
4 | It must be stressed that one should not rely on the proposition that the grounds of fault contained within third party correspondence are exhaustive . |
5 | ‘ One should not play on words , ’ he said , ‘ We hold positions of too much responsibility . ’ |
6 | They do not on the whole deny a male bias in conventional English , but they pretend to object to change on purely linguistic grounds — for instance that one should not tamper with grammar , that nonsexist forms are unaesthetic or even , as a last resort , that willed changes in language destroy freedom of thought and usher in totalitarianism . |