Example sentences of "one [modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 2 | In any case , what kind of general principles would be of help in judging between ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ ? |
| 3 | A sense of inadequacy and frustration because one may not understand what one is observing nor know what on Earth one can do about it . |
| 4 | This seems particularly objectionable when pleasures and pains prevented come into account , for one may well think it worse in an action to produce pain than merely to hinder a corresponding amount of pleasure occurring . |
| 5 | One may also consider what happens when one leaves the ordered window on the other side . |
| 6 | While one may reasonably ask what someone shouted , it hardly makes sense to ask what it was they screamed . |
| 7 | If our society were pure and well regulated , yes , they would be seducers ; but now , in my opinion , one may often consider them sisters of charity . ’ |
| 8 | He also confounds his own dualistic zeal by recalling the wise words ( as one may truly think them ) of the dualistic mage Paracelsus : ‘ Be not another , if thou canst be thyself . ’ |
| 9 | The school of Tolkien , if one may so describe it , was an attempt to throw on the brakes : to rediscover a national and personal selfhood by discovering the roots of faith . |
| 10 | Concentrating on systems-constraints , one may then ask what necessary and jointly sufficient conditions must be met in order for that highly co-ordinated kind of inter-dependent behaviour that we call interaction to " come off " . |
| 11 | Owen took over from cartographers the convention that where outlines are unknown one should just dot them in ; so his pictures of fossil bones show conjectural restoration of broken or lost pieces . |
| 12 | One should not expect her to resort to military force ‘ whenever she can get away with it ’ : if nothing else , she needs to keep the world 's ‘ useful idiots ’ in business . |
| 13 | One should not expect it to have operated in a unified or uniform manner . |
| 14 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 15 | It is against this background of restricted choice that one should initially view what was really a middle-class pressure group for women 's rights : the campaign to open up the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 16 | Story , narrative , is what best keeps a crime novel squarely in the entertainment field and one should never forget it . |
| 17 | That is the impression that is given and Labour likes to think that one should never say anything good about our region . |
| 18 | This means that one should never put one 's Japanese counterpart in a position that will force him to accept blame for a project going wrong , being delayed , etc . |
| 19 | Field Marshal Lord Wavell was strong in his support for the S.A.S. He had commented that one should never allow oneself to be ‘ trammelled by the bonds of orthodoxy ’ . |
| 20 | The Crabb incident is a salutary reminder that one should never believe anything a government says about an incident involving intelligence . |
| 21 | This does not make them invalid : one should merely put them in their appropriate context . |
| 22 | As was suggested at the outset , if one really wants to know what a particular field is concerned with at any particular time , one must simply observe what practitioners do . |
| 23 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 24 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 25 | In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition . |
| 26 | When a new and relevantly similar action occurs , one must either call it good or take back one 's judgement that the first one was good . |
| 27 | It is almost impossible to form a coalition of interests to get something changed in a statutory instrument or an order , so if there is broad agreement that an instrument is a good idea , one must either take it all or have nothing to do with it . |
| 28 | I am coming later to the ‘ none-atall ’ which is one of the more emphatic observations that I have to make , namely that one must not assume there is necessarily a rational purpose , or even a felonious purpose , in the breach of law and order and the commission of crime . |
| 29 | ‘ In the ideal I have of Art , I think that one must not show one 's own , and that the artist must no more appear in his work than God does in nature . |
| 30 | No one must ever see it again . |