Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be quite legitimate in cases where it is possible to use one module with any one or more modules , all of which may be referred to in loose coupling relations but only one may need to be called up from within the package . |
| 2 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 3 | One might learn to be glad |
| 4 | I would argue , however , that there is a difference between what one might consider to be reasonable use by passenger traffic during the day , and the disturbances that might arise from that , and the use of the line at night by heavy goods traffic . |
| 5 | ( iv ) In many sections , Nietzsche 's points are not presented in what one might take to be their natural order . |
| 6 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 7 | Most meditatively — remember Drury Lane , he murmured , and , his favourite whip and spur , ‘ Attack , boy , attack ! ’ — so meditatively that no one could fail to be impressed by the inner preoccupation of the handsome gentleman in Hessian boots who ruminated across the turf , he paced a slow , measured entrance to the very central point of the circle without once raising his gaze from the earth or his head from the cusp of a hand which supported its pensive load . |
| 8 | They are the last people on earth one could imagine to be dancers . |
| 9 | No one would pretend to be Jamie again , no one would get hurt . |
| 10 | Otherwise there is a danger that the phrase will be used merely symbolically , to create the illusion of change , to deflect criticism , or to discredit opposition ( because no one would want to be seen to oppose ‘ the child 's best interests ’ ) . |
| 11 | The heads of the metatarsals were fused , which one would expect to be accomplished by nineteen years , but fusion had not taken place in the secondary pelvic centres . |
| 12 | For another thing , areas that one would expect to be homologous on the basis of their connections appear totally different in other ways . |
| 13 | Churchmen , whom one would expect to be most militant about the matter , responded with anything from sceptical but unsurprised indifference to outright endorsement . |
| 14 | The most noteworthy cases are those which one would expect to be pleonastic , but are not . |
| 15 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 16 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 17 | It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins . |
| 18 | ‘ One would hope to be reassured by the hospital that this kind of tactic has not been employed here . |
| 19 | Ideally , one would like to be able to specify the particular solution corresponding to an arbitrary set of initial conditions . |
| 20 | Ideally one would like to be able to give a general characterisation of suitable sentence types ; unfortunately this is not at present possible . |
| 21 | erm Although one would hate to be , I do n't want to be accused of being elitist and saying that E H O's must do a particular job , but what I would like to say it that we need people who are trained to a sufficient level to be able to do the ultra high risk catering area , as distinct from other high-risk areas . |
| 22 | This seems a fair point to make against some of Stevenson 's and Ayer 's contentions , but the attitudinist , as I have characterised him , in this chapter , would acknowledge Bambrough 's points , yet still think it important to insist on the fundamental difference between trying to decide what is the case and trying to decide what one would wish to be ( and will try to make ) the case and on associating ethical claims with the latter . |
| 23 | One is no longer at home anywhere , so in the end one longs to be back where one can somehow be at home because it is the only place where one would wish to be at home : and that is the world of Greece ! " |
| 24 | In the event of the insolvency of either party , one would wish to be able to prove beyond doubt to a trustee in bankruptcy the interests of the parties in the property . |
| 25 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 26 | So when you got to see the Designer 's scale model of the studio sets you knew that if you wanted to put an actor in one spot , in mid-shot , camera one would have to be precisely in such-and-such position with one lens , camera two would have to be precisely in another position with another lens , and so on . |
| 27 | Anyone familiar with the clear , highly distinctive aroma of geranium would know that one would need to be totally anosmic to confuse it with the soft , deep notes of sandalwood . |
| 28 | In order to be persuaded by this justification one would need to be satisfied that the price is worth paying , that is , that alternative arrangements in which power was more widely diffused would not be preferable , even though this might mean that the system produced less wealth overall . |
| 29 | If the roof blows off such a lavatory , of course one will expect to be annoyed . |
| 30 | ‘ Then no one will have to be put out by my looks . ’ |