Example sentences of "one to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want this one to be one of the times when it 's not . ’ |
| 2 | She was not the only one to be impressed . |
| 3 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |
| 4 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 5 | Gloucester 's petition embodies the only surviving details of his side of the agreement , which are , however , too vague for one to be sure how hard a bargain he had driven . |
| 6 | Some lawyers are typified as ‘ clever ’ , others as ‘ stupid ’ ; the former require one to be cautious , while the latter give greater opportunity for having the wool pulled over their eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's as true as I 'm sitting here telling you , ’ insisted Dodger Gillespie , never one to be subject to fancies or unsought hallucinations . |
| 8 | Surely being the country which gave rugby to the world , our all-white strip is part of the game and one to be proud of . |
| 9 | It is one to be proud of . |
| 10 | In short , feminist was an exciting identity and one to be proud of . |
| 11 | The explosion of the term ‘ regionalism ’ in this way should lead one to be suspicious of usages of it which slide from one focus of attention to another , eliding explanations in the meanwhile . |
| 12 | ‘ Traditionally games against Meath are always close , and I would n't expect this one to be any different . ’ |
| 13 | Again , most of the children were shouted at by their parents when they escaped , and yet Audrey is the only one to be distressed to the point of tears by this . |
| 14 | To understand how this could be involves some understanding of the representation problem , and to decide that any given pattern of behaviour has this character of being , as one might put it , ‘ biologically discouraged ’ requires one to be able to read the historical record . |
| 15 | Eyeshadows are a tricky one to be able to do in store — there must be 100 different browns alone , they 'd need to be mixed as a loose powder and sold pressed … ’ |
| 16 | You do n't have to have had one to be able to comment on this . |
| 17 | It was agreed that until the doctor had decided when they should go , Eric would be hidden in a hole in the ground which would be covered with planks and earth sufficiently far from the farm for no one to be able to accuse the farmer of having hidden him . |
| 18 | However , this model is simple enough for one to be able to make numerous predictions from it , and hence it has been easy to submit the model to experimental tests . |
| 19 | If they 're negatively correlated , then you would expect the Z score for one to be positive and the other to be negative , or negative and positive . |
| 20 | It could reinforce that conventional distinction between astronomy and natural philosophy , which allowed one to be skeptical concerning any claims for physical representation that the mathematical astronomer might make . |