Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that one " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The Community proposals mean that one out of ten farmers set aside land in the rest of Europe compared to six out of ten in the UK .
2 The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’
3 If priming effects are to be attributed to residual activation of logogens , the absence of cross-modal priming effects means that one must abandon the view that a single logogen system is used for visual and auditory word recognition , picture naming , and responding to definitions .
4 But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer .
5 Some writers suggest that one can easily overestimate the significance and influence of the embryonic pre-independence African press .
6 This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel .
7 The latest unemployment figures show that one in ten people are now without a job .
8 ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher .
9 The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections .
10 Unfortunately , it is uncertain whether he was writing during Emma 's marriage to Cnut or that to Æthelred , but these tales hint that one or both suggested to Richard II that a claim to England was worth recording , and that he wanted to keep his options open .
11 New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise .
12 Accordingly , the differences of disciplinary interests mean that one needs to be very careful about the kinds of problems that are being addressed .
13 In past epidemics , the doctors reckoned that one in ten of those infected would die .
14 Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery .
15 That is the impression that is given and Labour likes to think that one should never say anything good about our region .
16 What humbug it is for some Opposition Members to say that one should buy British and then travel around in foreign cars .
17 Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation .
18 Police say that one well known UFF figure is regularly driving through nationalist parts of North and West Belfast despite the real risk to his own life .
19 Some such philosophers say that one notices that something is white through noticing its resemblance to other things .
20 Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way .
21 Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative .
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