Example sentences of "one [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's hard to tip the buggy up when I 've got the heaviest it 's , one in the front , it 's easier with the lightest one let's have your reigns on |
| 2 | And when it 's such a fine day , for once , one ought to let them kick . |
| 3 | The pre-emption thesis shows how its existence makes a difference to the reasons why one ought to do what one ought to do . |
| 4 | But it was not clear how one ought to extend it to more complicated atoms . |
| 5 | In such cases while talking of a person as being an authority one refrains from talking of him as in authority over oneself , and avoids regarding his advice or instructions as binding , even when , given one 's goals , one ought to treat it in exactly the same way as one treats a binding authoritative directive . |
| 6 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 7 | At other times , he would sit back in a thoughtful , philosophical mood and ask Bob whether he felt one ought to have one 's name printed at the head of one 's private writing-paper . |
| 8 | Yes this , this one , this new one ought to get it retyped . |
| 9 | One may classify my action as ‘ showing off ’ . |
| 10 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 11 | And one may do something before one cracks up . |
| 12 | One may think there to be very little point in simply reciting that ‘ the church has never ordained women ’ without enquiring into why this should have been . |
| 13 | Scepticism and an attitude of indifference to the prospect of final extinction have proved , as a matter of practical experience , no adequate substitute for the doctrine of immortality , however illusory one may hold it to be . |
| 14 | Self-promotion of that sort may be a matter for amused comment , but it is widely accepted that one may choose one 's Place in the pecking order , or try to , and that in Britain parentage does not irreversibly define class . |
| 15 | Taking Southern English as standard one may call everything before 1300 Early Middle English , everything after 1300 Late Middle English . |
| 16 | For a regiment which has its headquarters at Edinburgh Castle and which recruits its officers largely from the city , the appointment of Rifkind , the member for Edinburgh Pentlands , will do the Royal Scots ' ( motto : No one may touch me with impunity ) case no harm at all . |
| 17 | Nor can it be a matter of the effects he intends to cause in hearers , for one may say something with a definite meaning , with all sorts of different such intentions , and , in any case , the causal theory as advanced by Stevenson is concerned with the actual causal potency of language , not with what is intended . |
| 18 | From what subsequently came about in history , one may say what was his intention . |
| 19 | One may believe they are wrong or mad , but if war is to be avoided , they can not be ignored . |
| 20 | Some of the larger groups of Munros demand personal route planning , since the permutations of how one may bag them are endless . |
| 21 | Like two men in a maze , one may know his way and would make very few wrong turns in reaching his goal , by picking up familiar clues along the way . |
| 22 | So we pray for those who are battered and bruised because of such differences , and we ask that each one may know your touch of peace . |
| 23 | In tight-formed jostling company , if one holds one 's beer mug with straight arm downwards , one may get it rapped round one 's balls , or the contents out of control down one 's trousers . |
| 24 | In many cases , one may trace them back to a very ancient past , though often the present-day festivals — surviving in the face of what is euphemistically called ‘ progress ’ — retain only a vestige of their former meaning and complexity . |
| 25 | So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day . |
| 26 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 27 | The plain fact is that one may learn something about features of recovery by looking at large numbers of individuals but the converse does not wholly follow . |
| 28 | If an honest attempt is made in one 's own little world to make this strive a living force without being crushed under foot by one 's contemporaries , then one may consider oneself and the community to which one belongs lucky . |
| 29 | On the other hand , one may keep his or her flat like a tornado just ran through while the other is a ‘ neatnick ’ . |
| 30 | If one 's position is that one is a literary critic , there can be no reason to wrestle with the text that one may appropriate it . |