Example sentences of "one [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one constitutes a separate ethnic unit , has a self-sufficient economy , a flag , a Supreme Soviet , a council of ministers and , most important , is placed between the area we call Russia and the world outside . |
| 2 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 3 | One insists that science has at least something in common with map-making . |
| 4 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 5 | Probably not , if one insists absolutely on the principle of non-repetition . |
| 6 | It is unrealistic , if as a teacher , one insists on two t's in the best time . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , I know it 's a dodgy topic , ’ some one remarks in Amis 's Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , ‘ but you are lower class , are n't you , darling ? ’ ; to which the admirably candid reply is : |
| 8 | If one integrates this thinking with the concepts underlying the SBU portfolio grids in strategic analysis , and especially if a successful cost-leadership and limit-pricing policy such as described earlier in this chapter is being pursued , one might expect to see a product ( SBU ) shift from ‘ Fine tuning ’ , through ‘ Pursue ’ , ‘ Awaken ’ , ‘ Scramble ’ and ‘ Salvage ’ , over the product life-cycle . |
| 9 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ . |
| 11 | They are just the means by which one refers to clusters . |
| 12 | In fact , of one refers to the practices of Muhammad , which are the main Muslim Texts , one sees that they deal as much with politics , government , the struggle against tyrants , as with prayers . " |
| 13 | When one refers to something already mentioned : The year had been one of great political unrest . |
| 14 | ‘ The second one refers to the serpent entering Eden . ’ |
| 15 | This one refers to an article by Mr Sydney Breeze on operating practices in the Severn Tunnel in steam days . |
| 16 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that in cases of blackmail one refers to Mr. X. Surely in a similar case such as this one , it would be fairer to the individual involved to refer to him or her as Mr. , Mrs. , Miss or Ms. X. |
| 17 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 18 | Note that it is also quite possible for the gestural usage to combine with the non-deictic anaphoric usage too : ( 41 ) I cut a finger : this one Here this one refers to whatever a finger refers to , but simultaneously must be accompanied by a presentation of the relevant finger . |
| 19 | I think this , this one refers to Blind does n't it . |
| 20 | Early steps explain the common words used and how one builds programs using these words . |
| 21 | John Wildsen 's The Power of One fits the bill perfectly . |
| 22 | Two sockets are provided after the twist , one fits 3.5″ drives , the other 5.25″ drives . |
| 23 | No that one fits perfectly |
| 24 | it come from , Ah three fours are twelve X to the three minus the power right oh and this one fits too very nicely . |
| 25 | This represented a most enlightened step , which is perhaps even more remarkable when one appreciates that no educational institution was involved . |
| 26 | One appreciates , but according to a felt meaning . |
| 27 | It is when one recognizes the variations in peasant advancement among even individuals in a single community , as well as from one village or one region to another , that one appreciates the need for caution in calling the fifteenth century the golden age of the English labourer . |
| 28 | This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life in unavoidable , is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away , but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships , one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious . |
| 29 | It is clear that one supplies labour and the other demands it , but do education and business have only this one thing in common ? |
| 30 | At first blush the analysis outlined above possesses considerable intuitive appeal , but the further one delves into the arguments that lie at its core , the more profoundly disturbing are its conclusions . |