Example sentences of "when one [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 2 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 3 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 4 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 5 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 6 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 7 | Alternatively , during a spell of prolonged cold weather when one fears for the safety of the fish , a hole can be made in the ice by placing a pan of boiling water on the surface and allowing this to melt through . |
| 8 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 9 | There are also the foreseeable difficulties that emerge when one takes as the basis for study the concepts of ‘ normal ’ and ‘ typical ’ children . |
| 10 | However , when one turns to the year-by-year figures in Table 2 , the picture , even for that period , becomes more variable . |
| 11 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 12 | When one speaks of the intention of the parties to the contract one is speaking objectively — the parties can not themselves give direct evidence of what their intention was . |
| 13 | The main problem with the ‘ object ’ dimension arises when one moves beyond the biological to the social and human . |
| 14 | Nowhere is this more impressive than on the Dean Bridge at sunset , when one looks over the deep valley of the Water of Leith and sees the glistening windows of Moray Place and Ainslie Place . |
| 15 | For the recording , we reseated the orchestra for each variation to create the acoustic that one sees and imagines when one looks at the score . |
| 16 | And when one looks at the individuals within the Royal Family , they are so magnificently unaccountably and unpardonably boring . |
| 17 | This drift towards investigation through interrogation is altogether clearer when one looks at the provisions on detention which are to be found in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act . |
| 18 | Turmoil is a word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 19 | Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system . |
| 20 | When one looks at the use of highly qualified manpower within this shifting labour market , the picture is further complicated by the phenomenon of ‘ substitution ’ ( Blaug 1983 ) . |
| 21 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ Turmoil is the word that comes to mind when one looks at the evolving British education system , ’ wrote John Davies , director of the Educational Publishers Council of the Publishers Association , in The Bookseller in January . |
| 23 | Will my hon. Friend reflect on the mirror image of those charges , when one looks at the Liberal Democrat and Labour party Front-Bench spokesmen to see how many come from Scottish constituencies and frequently and regularly speak on purely English matters ? |
| 24 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 25 | What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message . |
| 26 | It looks very substantial on the surface , but when one looks below the surface , one finds nothing of any substance . |
| 27 | That is distinctly important when one comes under the five B , because what 's ineligible in those areas . |
| 28 | However , when one comes to the duty to provide and ordain suitable trained attorneys and lawyers to equip the courts , the judges ' performance of that duty , in so far as it related to the provision of trained advocates , was executed through the relationship they developed with the Inns of Court . |
| 29 | When one kneels on the seat I see heels cracked like earth and , on some , toes that seem almost to be growing together like tubers . |