Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 2 | One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined . |
| 3 | If one thinks of what was done one must also think of those who did it . ’ |
| 4 | Yet one must also beware of the sort of patronising attitude nicely expressed in the film of The Go-Between , when the silly sprig of the Big House observes , after an exchange with the lusty Alan Bates , ‘ I think I put him at his ease , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | As the discipline develops , the amalgamation of groups of practitioners having particular issues as central becomes clearer , so that one might even talk of specific ‘ schools ’ within the discipline . |
| 6 | The health of an eight year old diabetic child must , for example , be judged by reference to the standard one might reasonably expect of a child of that age with diabetes and not a healthy eight year old . |
| 7 | One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society . |
| 8 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 9 | Emily would be suitable ; and the fact of her aristocratic blood weighed with Paul ; one could always boast of it discreetly to colleagues , in the event . |
| 10 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 11 | One could only say of an electron encircling the hydrogen nucleus that it had a certain probability of being found here and a certain probability of being found there . |
| 12 | Gorbachev , at the two leaders ' concluding press conference , described the summit as an ‘ event of enormous importance for our bilateral relations ’ and added that one could now speak of a ‘ new phase of cooperation ’ between the two countries . |
| 13 | Gorbachev said that it had been an " event of enormous importance for our bilateral relations and in the context of world politics " and that one could now speak of a " new phase of co-operation " between the USA and the Soviet Union , describing Bush as " the kind of person to do business with " . |
| 14 | One need only think of water , gas , electricity and telephone charges , which fall disproportionately on single person households . |
| 15 | But one can also think of style as manner irrespective of such external connections , by identifying distinctive patterns of language use in a text simply as a means of differentiating it from other texts , on the general assumption that such distinctive patterns must be a part of the text 's overall effect . |