Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a theory of normal language processing were proposed in which there were a single processing system responsible for dealing with spoken language — a system used both for perceiving and for producing speech — then one ought never to see patients with intact speech perception and impaired speech production , nor patients with the opposite disorder . |
| 2 | One may well blame politicians for much Middle East misery , as Mr. Cleaver maintains , but without forgetting that Palestine has been partitioned a number of times . |
| 3 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 4 | The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’ |
| 5 | Being Christian , Ruth should understand that in order to enjoy life one must often help others and obliterate situations that make people unhappy . |
| 6 | One must therefore develop strategies taking into account the way in which they , and rival responses to them , may change the industry structure and its related profitability . |
| 7 | ‘ One must never think things like that without proof . ’ |
| 8 | The bungalow huddles , one might even say broods , above an outcrop of ground high above the main road beside which it was built . |
| 9 | For the moment , just imagine holding variables constant ; to control for the size of the fire , for example , one might only consider cases where an isolated car had caught fire . |
| 10 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 11 | Hence , Marshall pointed out that one could simply use years from 1 upwards in the ascending part of the life-cycle as an index of a falling growth rate . |
| 12 | One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood . |
| 13 | But one would still need regulations or policies ‘ to prevent monopolistic concentration ’ and a ‘ common carrier ’ obligation imposed upon owners of transmission equipment . |
| 14 | No one would ever cut pieces off her while she slept . |
| 15 | As the depôt was near the ‘ Robin Hood ’ , in the mornings , one would often see drivers ' small children waiting with a blue enamelled jug of steaming tea and sandwiches in a red handkerchief , for their father 's breakfast . |
| 16 | One would literally get letters from eight to eighty , with a tremendous number of university students , all asking questions about the motivation of the series , how long it was going to carry on , questions I was n't even qualified to answer sometimes . |
| 17 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 18 | The argument that in English one can theoretically address others without revealing status , on which some of Lyons ' claims for the ‘ objectivity ’ of the language rest , is not in fact readily subscribed to by linguists . |
| 19 | Table tennis is on offer , and one can also hire bicycles . |
| 20 | This case illustrates how by changing behaviour one can also affect attitudes . |
| 21 | One can also imagine clubs for the ‘ healthy ’ that will demand proof of ‘ genetic fitness ’ . |
| 22 | One can already see trends in this direction . |
| 23 | One can thus see gains and losses in the two broad approaches to the study of literature described by Welch ( 1987 ) . |
| 24 | One can hardly expect newspapers not to change over four decades ! |
| 25 | Yet even on the most charitable view of facts , one can hardly treat propositions like " Ruritania does not exist " as being on the same logical footing as any other synthetic true singular propositions without throwing into confusion the whole concept of existence . |
| 26 | In the current absence of information about problematic matters from the teachers ' point of view , one can only make assumptions based on impressions about the kind of issue that is uppermost in their minds . |
| 27 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 28 | That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now . |
| 29 | It is in Africa and India that one can still find patients ravaged by the late complications of syphilis , gonorrhoea , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and any hopes of eventually controlling levels of infection will almost certainly depend on paramedical or ‘ barefoot ’ doctors ’ playing a larger role . |
| 30 | One can certainly envisage situations in which the sub-optimal response of agents to the dynamics of a particular dynamic market game might lead to a market equilibrium away from that which would be reached under optimal behaviour . |