Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 2 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 3 | However , one has to beware of jumping too rapidly to conclusions on the basis of a single surface analysis without considering all the possibilities . |
| 4 | In any garden one has to think of the practical as well as the more decorative elements and so a shed and compost area were included . |
| 5 | In order to spell , one has to combine both kinds of sequence , one has to think of the syllables in the word in the correct order and remember them and remember how far you got , and also remember the sequence of visual symbols , i.e. letters on paper . |
| 6 | Even in a school one has to think of a very large number of different pupils with their own different characteristics and strengths and weaknesses , and one has to operate in a classroom and to a timetable and with given resources , and so on and so forth , and the combination of all these pressures and the ways that one has got used to handling them , on the whole , is what makes a person teach the way they do . |
| 7 | We know from the housing benefit system that there is a backlog of cases , I think hundred and a , quite a considerable number of people of where people are having problems producing wage receipts and evidence of income now and one dreads to think of the burden that will be putting on the letting section by erm inventing yet another system o of this kind erm I think people we know that people are wary already of applying for benefits because of means testing and I think that there 's that it would simply discourage people who really are in need from coming forward . |
| 8 | For most of their life , they are dormant , and one tends to think of them as graceful upsweeping cones , delicately capped with snow , dreaming serenely over the cherry-blossom-draped landscapes of calendars and travel posters . |
| 9 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 10 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 11 | If one wishes to speak of specifically ‘ political ’ roles , the divide is between the individual ruwatu and their wives ( ruwahutu ) , on the one hand , and everyone else , on the other ( Overing 1985 ) . |
| 12 | His proposed solution to this problem is that before one claims to speak of his inner voice , or the voice of conscience , he should recognize his limitations , and discipline himself to cultivate truthfulness , humility , purity and non-violence and embrace the twin ideals of poverty and non-possession . |