Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 2 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |
| 3 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 4 | FINANCIAL advisers converging on the Wembley Conference Centre today will be wondering who will take the job which no one wants and step into the shoes of Lord Elton at the head of Britain 's most important investor protection body . |
| 5 | What of sensations , perhaps the warmth one feels while sitting in a sunny window ? |
| 6 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 7 | More pressingly , it depends on how much one knows or cares about the detail of Irish nationalist politics or about the practicalities of occultism . |