Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. R. R. Tolkien was born in South Africa , to be sure , Iris Murdoch in Dublin and Tom Stoppard in Czechoslovakia , but they settled into their lifelong home in childhood , and no one doubts they are British authors . |
| 2 | OH NO , LOOK AT THAT TOO Just when one thinks one 's getting on top of it one finds a bit of a tum . |
| 3 | At that age one thinks one is going to live for ever ! ’ |
| 4 | Outer observation is inherently fallible : one may not actually be perceiving what one thinks one is perceiving . |
| 5 | So no one thinks it 's on . |
| 6 | No , that one goes it was that erm Cosi Fan Tutti |
| 7 | One wonders what were Hardy 's thoughts as he and Emma made that visit with George burt to Durlston . |
| 8 | One wonders what was in it . |
| 9 | one wonders which was real and which only a reflection . |
| 10 | The Town Boys in a way are an enigma , and how one joins them is by no means easy to discover . |
| 11 | THE pace of political change has been rapid here , but for no one has it been faster than for Mr Jan Carnogursky , who will be a deputy prime minister . |
| 12 | However , one encounters what is known as the closure problem , a consequence of the non-linearity of the equation . |
| 13 | Therefore one assumes they 're very hugger-mugger all the time . |
| 14 | Only 3% rate themselves as a little worse than most and virtually no one says they 're a lot worse than most . |
| 15 | Others say that the resemblance one notices is between sensations , and that what one means when one says something is white is that a sensation one has on looking at it resembles a sensation one has had before and to which one gave the name ‘ sensation of white ’ . |
| 16 | TVL 's got problems , but no one says it 's going to pop its clogs . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , cos this one says it 's immediate . |
| 18 | In both , defendants say they were tortured in detention ; one says he was kidnapped from neighbouring Uganda . |
| 19 | Racing toward it , the excitement grows as one sees it is not a shadow , not a glacial cobble , but a meteorite — a piece of rock from another planet ! |
| 20 | It is when one comes to look at the application of the directive , and , in particular , at the small print of some other member states ' legislation , that one sees it is not so simple . |
| 21 | When these hit other atoms they in turn create more pairs of electrons and positrons , so one gets what is called an electron shower . |
| 22 | If a woman fucks a lot of men , each one fears he 's up for a rating . ’ |
| 23 | The answer to the question whether motivation arousal patterns derive from one 's past or from the situation in which one finds oneself is that they derive from both . |
| 24 | Du Caurroy 's Fantasies a III , IV , V et VI parties ( 1610 ) are so old-fashioned — instrumental motets , sometimes with long-note cantus firmus , on plainsong or Huguenot melodies — and so lacking in rhythmic vitality that one suspects they were composed long before their posthumous publication . |
| 25 | He inspires extraordinary loyalty among his staff ; in return , one suspects he is unlikely to suffer fools or dissidents gladly . |
| 26 | ( Sometimes the discussion of rebirth sounds like Shirley Maclean 's writings on ‘ channelling ’ , though one suspects it is not meant to . ) |
| 27 | but one suspects there were times last summer when he was suffering some torment . |
| 28 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 29 | Certainly , some movement ( in the UK ) takes place between publicly owned and public liability companies , and one imagines there is some movement between , say , mutual ( i. e. nonprofit ) insurance companies and public liability insurance companies . |
| 30 | No one feels they are a team member , much less a partner , if decisions are continually made without their consultation . |