Example sentences of "one is [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say if one is n't built soon … somebody could be killed . |
| 2 | Somehow one is n't prepared for that kind of situation … |
| 3 | I mean the council in our house today , the council and he 's told the other council , one is n't working , well he 's on a good job somewhere , he said well what 's one hundred and twenty pound a week ? |
| 4 | She told me this one is n't working so I 'm using the flat one . |
| 5 | Sort of on the , on the horizon for the end of the year and er I , I er do n't know how we 're going to do but erm I think the answer probably is to take a chunk at a time on the basis that erm one is n't going to be able to charge around as violently , actively as some people will . |
| 6 | Remember that when a probate or letters of administration constitute one of the title documents it 's unlikely in any event to be handed over , so look for a covenant for its production and if one is n't abstracted , make a requisition on the point , although you should note covenants for production are not necessary in deeds giving rise to first registration . |
| 7 | One is n't gon na go past York to get to Leeds . |
| 8 | One is not comparing like with like , however , and the grammar schools had a slightly more advantaged intake , less ambiguity as to the goals of the school and had not suffered the upset of reorganisation . |
| 9 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 10 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 11 | But more important still , in making such statements one is not asserting anything that could conceivably be interpreted in terms of non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties of the objects concerned . |
| 12 | Years later the feminists were inspired by her most famous statement , ‘ One is not born a woman , one becomes one ’ , to conclude that the inferior status of ‘ the second sex ’ was not a natural phenomenon but a man-made one . |
| 13 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 14 | One is not prepared , however , for the discovery that Milner , so realist and clear-sighted about South Africa , was himself at the very same time an illusionist on a world scale . |
| 15 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 16 | It takes time and patience to get these quiet slow spoken people to talk ; they must be sure that one is not trying to make a fool of them or mocking them . |
| 17 | Donald Fry , in his study , Children talk about books : seeing themselves as readers ( 1985 ) , has shown what can be done if one is not daunted by the ‘ unscientific ’ nature of small samples , limited ‘ controls ’ , speculation , and subjectivity . |
| 18 | False negatives seem to occur by a process of ignoring what one is not alerted to notice , as well as from emotional blockage . " |
| 19 | One is not completed before another is commenced . |
| 20 | Given this situation , one must perforce hypothesise , if one is not to remain mute . |
| 21 | But , in wrestling with it , it should be noted that one is not addressing the more fundamental question as to whether in fact feminism is compatible with Christianity . |
| 22 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 23 | STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate |
| 24 | Employee theft , after all , is impossible if one is not employed . |
| 25 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 26 | One of the most important points of difference between language acquisition by human beings and the deficient parallel process in the case of the ape language experiments is , of course , that in the latter case one is not dealing with the acquisition by the young of a system employed already by conspecific elders . |
| 27 | Bryden tentatively argued that the latter correlation indicated that in terms of dichotic listening asymmetry one is not dealing with something under genetic control " . |
| 28 | The exact date of this one is not known , but they were patented by Robert Archibald in 1858 . |
| 29 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 30 | It might provide a temporary suspension of concern about school work , being bullied , or growing up ( or feeling one is not growing up ) . |