Example sentences of "one [is] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one is selected as a separate selfish gene , but it flourishes only in the presence of the right set of other genes . |
| 2 | In conventional crime one is charged with the results of one 's actions . |
| 3 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 4 | The local families were patrons and indeed reading the diaries one is struck by the continuity of families into this decade . |
| 5 | As at Matching and Monk 's Topping , one is struck by the personal nature of the virtue expressed by the house . |
| 6 | In addition , one is struck by the importance of such factors as : vocal quality — this is Billie Holiday and could not be anyone else ; phrasing — that is , the way she places accents , alters the rhythm , often by stretching out notes so that they sound behind the beat instead of on it , and joins notes together , for example smoothly or with attacked consonants ; and pitch inflection — the way she sometimes slides up to or away from notes , hits them slightly ‘ off-pitch ’ , and so on . |
| 7 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 8 | Delving in the archives one is struck by the frequent references to shortage of funds , a situation which , unfortunately , still applies today . |
| 9 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 10 | The church is entered through its original door complete with ancient iron hinges and immediately one is plunged into an anachronic atmosphere . |
| 11 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 12 | And the first one is based at a project called and it 's for unemployed people in . |
| 13 | The one is based at the level of the firm . |
| 14 | This one is based on a design for a Sioux war-shirt . |
| 15 | Dell Computer Corp responded to Compaq Computer Corp 's multimedia machine ( see front ) with two new multimedia personal computers of its own , the Valuestation 386 and 486 , priced at $1,500 and $2,000 : the smaller one is based on the Dell System 333s/L , while the Valuestation 486 is based on the Dell snap-together personal computer ; they a factory installed Sound Blaster Pro or Sound Blaster 16 audio board , a CD-ROM drive , speakers , a microphone , applications installed on the hard drive , and CD-based software applications . |
| 16 | The last one is based on the popular song O du lieber Augustin and its exaggerations ( knowing ‘ how far to go too far ’ in Cocteau 's famous phrase ) bring it close to the kind of waltz parody found in the Valses bourgeoises by Lord Berners ( Unicorn-Kanchana , 1/79 — sadly now deleted ) . |
| 17 | Another one is advertised as a ’ sabretooth survival saw ’ and it again is said to be able to pass unnoticed through metal detectors . |
| 18 | The longer one debates a trivial matter such as whether it is right to put up with the notorious rudeness of the only fishmonger in town or to fight back , the deeper one is enmeshed in an ever-expanding web of implication . |
| 19 | This is just as well , because the fastest way to convert a large fortune into a small one is to invest in an English vineyard . |
| 20 | Erm next one is thinking on the left |
| 21 | Only by a careful understanding of the market place can one be sure that one is thinking in the appropriate dimension and take full advantage of scale economies . |
| 22 | She has four arms , making her an inescapable foe — one hand holds a sword , one a human head , one is raised in a gesture of peace to trick the unwary , and the other forms a claw , ready to pinion its next victim . |
| 23 | Please ensure one is displayed in every Institute and as many other public places as possible ( but make sure you have permission to use the space ) . |
| 24 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 25 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 26 | STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate |
| 27 | The activity is represented by a rectangle and each one is followed by a question box in the form of a lozenge . |
| 28 | The activity is represented by a rectangle and each one is followed by a question box in the form of a lozenge . |
| 29 | One is to shop around the electricity companies and the other is to generate it yourself . |
| 30 | These three vices are universally regarded as so detrimental to a horse , and so incurable , that if one is detected in a horse soon after it has been sold at a reputable horse auction , it is grounds for its sale to be cancelled . |