Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when one reads the dedication of The Problem of Pain — 'to the Inklings ' — one understands some of its short-cuts , as well as some of its more peculiar turns of phrase ( e.g. of the Incarnation — ‘ It has the master touch — the rough , male taste of reality . |
| 2 | It is in peasant society that one sees some of the main gainers from the surplus of land . |
| 3 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 4 | Then the head is distorted in a sweeping spiral movement so that the spectator is obliged to move completely around it and thus gathers a very complete idea about it ; and , owing to the element of distortion , from several positions one sees more of the head than would be possible in ordinary vision . |
| 5 | ‘ One grows weary of parties , ’ Miss Beard replied languidly . |
| 6 | Finally , the expansion of the social services may have contributed slightly to the unprofitability of capital but the roots of the decline in profitability lie elsewhere whether one adopts one of the various Keynesian or Marxist perspectives . |
| 7 | In Ashar 's attitude one senses one of the many paradoxes of the Iranian revolution . |
| 8 | One judges better of others than that , but can only hope better of oneself . |
| 9 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 10 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 11 | Reading Native Races and their Rulers , one becomes aware of the extent to which Indirect Rule , as it came to be practised by Temple and presumably his fellow Residents , implied a special and refined kind of experience of power . |
| 12 | Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on . |
| 13 | When one considers that of the 782 endowed schools investigated by the Commission , only about forty were described as flourishing and efficient " , it is clear that the School was indeed prospering . |
| 14 | If one rotates one of them a little , everything falls into line . |
| 15 | However , the value of a field and its rate of change with time are like the position and velocity of a particle : the uncertainty principle implies that the more accurately one knows one of these quantities , the less accurately one can know the other . |