Example sentences of "[adv] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally one examines them — some are good , others , perhaps in the Ninth Symphony , involve mistakes . |
| 2 | I have come across many people who have bought their binoculars from railway lost-property offices , though naturally one has to be doubly careful . |
| 3 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 4 | Naturally one had wished to invite Mr Adolphus Moon who had just purchased a delightful house with extensive grounds near the village of Far Flatley , where Amabel herself would dearly love to build . |
| 5 | Naturally one can not leave business premises unattended . |
| 6 | Perhaps one should note the care with which the present leader of the party , John Hume , chooses his words over the future of the North . |
| 7 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 8 | There is a magical quality of invention about the Red House , and perhaps one 's excitement is heightened by imagining Morris 's friends arriving at Abbey Wood Station and driving the three miles into the country to come and stay here . |
| 9 | Perhaps one can produce figures for the amount knocked off property prices by aircraft noise and excessive pollution ( as Blueprint suggests , with the backing of figures from American cities ) , but even here there is room for doubt . |
| 10 | Perhaps one should ‘ allow that a certain knowledge derived from our experience of the appearances of things should be termed genuine knowledge ’ . |
| 11 | Perhaps one is being a little punctilious , but some clarification of these , and other , matters would have been helpful to the novice . |
| 12 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 13 | Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge . |
| 14 | Perhaps one can assume , therefore , that it is a subject few people know anything about . |
| 15 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 16 | At this juncture I have an experience to relate , perhaps one which ought to be recorded in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 17 | Again the family may be introduced through an improvised story , perhaps one which involves attention to comparison in some way . |
| 18 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 19 | So perhaps one should n't weep too much for Sugar . |
| 20 | Perhaps one is safer being a turf accountant than a chartered accountant in this day and age . |
| 21 | ’ Perhaps one would have an even greater fondness for the folio 1594 Biblia Graeca Septuaginta with which Doctor Johnson knocked down his temporary employer , the bookseller Osborne , when he accused his illustrious employee of negligence . |
| 22 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 23 | The second view is that Judas told the chief priests that Jesus had claimed to be some sort of Messiah ; perhaps one who would lead a rebellion against the Romans . |
| 24 | Perhaps one should have an artificial menopause and be done with them altogether . |
| 25 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 26 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
| 27 | Now these kinds of accounts ( or perhaps one might say failures to give an adequate account ? ) of women 's lives are implicitly divisive and threatening . |
| 28 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 29 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 30 | Humanists too may have a vision , perhaps one which draws from Jesus Christ . |