Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can not equate it with ‘ ought ’ since , according to him , to speak of what one ought to do is simply to speak of what will have the best consequences . |
| 2 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |
| 3 | One reason why endothermy is not as common in the animal kingdom as one might expect is that the energy costs of endothermy are high . |
| 4 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 5 | They begin with the essentially sound premiss that no physical property that one might have is a logically sufficient condition of one having a particular experience . |
| 6 | Possibly the greatest fear one might have is that , because the lesson is relatively unstructured , it could grind to a halt . |
| 7 | All one could do is predict the probabilities of different outcomes . |
| 8 | There is the European Parliament , which no one could deny is power-hungry . |
| 9 | All one need say is that this is how things often are . |
| 10 | All one would hope is that they and other British players will build on this new spirit of confidence and the opportunity it provided , by lifting their individual world rankings to a level whereby , in world tennis , they also clearly belong with the best . |
| 11 | The best conclusion that one can draw is that the objectives model provides a useful tool for certain purposes , especially the basic levels of knowledge and skill acquisition , but that is should not be used exclusively nor without judgement . |
| 12 | The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend . |
| 13 | Sometimes all one can do is remember ‘ when in Rome … ’ and bear in mind some dos and don'ts . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 15 | As none of us can ever get outside logocentrism ( its power over our habits of thought and over our language is so pervasive ) , the most that one can do is work against them from within in this sort of way . |
| 16 | The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers . |
| 17 | The best comparison one can make is with either a largely exactly contemporary set of recordings on a Vogue Savoy collection , ‘ Original Bird — The Best of Bird on Savoy ’ ( Vogue , full price ) or a similarly anthological album highlighting his slightly later ( 1946–47 ) efforts for the Comet and Dial labels , namely ‘ Bird Symbols ’ ( Rhapsody , full price ) . |
| 18 | in a setting of suburban , industrial , residential development , and some of those viewpoints on the ring road all one can see is the suburban , industrial , and residential development . |
| 19 | Or rather , the most that one can predict is that the 1990s will be a period of yet more bumps and twists , swerves and U-turns , and unexpected developments . |
| 20 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 21 | Well I I think one of the greatest deterrents that one can have is the copper on the beat . |
| 22 | All one can say is that the story being told ( or hinted at ) is also one of gloom , death and parting , like that between Eärendil and Elwing , the mariner and the weeping women of Middle-earth . |
| 23 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 24 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 25 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 26 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 27 | It is extremely difficult to construct a cost-of-living index for governmental expenditure and the most one can say is that , very roughly , the ordinary revenue of the Crown probably kept pace with inflation , but did not increase in real terms to meet the larger calls being made upon government . |
| 28 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 29 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 30 | All that one can say is that he was better than the current Labour party leader . |