Example sentences of "[det] if one " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 2 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 3 | Luckily , one only notices this if one stays sober oneself , so the solution is as pleasant ( at the time , at least ) as it is obvious . |
| 4 | I might vary this if one was arguing that it was easier for a chap in some circumstances to become a bomber pilot than it would be to become a fighter pilot , and I would concede that argument . |
| 5 | ‘ So he does n't mind too much if one goes missing ? ’ |
| 6 | This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life in unavoidable , is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away , but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships , one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious . |
| 7 | One can do that if one can identify excessive profits , wage levels which depend on restricting access to labour markets and gross inefficiency in the running of government enterprises . |
| 8 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 9 | The last factor is important in that if one is prepared to lose the whole storage , there is no ‘ need ’ for a fire protection system at all . |
| 10 | Equally obviously this constitutes no reason at all if one does not hold this particular feature in high regard . |
| 11 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 12 | In many ways it was a vicious circle — everything cost so much more if one could n't produce in bulk , but to produce in bulk one needed capital — and plenty of outlets . |
| 13 | But it was , in real terms , very much less if one allows for rising prices . |
| 14 | A particle of spin 2 is like a double-headed arrow ( Fig. 5.1-iii ) : it looks the same if one turns it round half a revolution ( 180 degrees ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 16 | All this seems fairly straightforward , but the remarkable fact is that there are particles that do not look the same if one turns them through just one revolution : you have to turn them through two complete revolutions ! |
| 17 | In other words , the universe would have to behave the same if one replaced particles by antiparticles , took the mirror image , and also reversed the direction of time . |