Example sentences of "that one could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that one could help to break that circle by integrating the school system ( Fraser 1974 ; Heskin 1980 ) . |
| 2 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 3 | Once we had got them down , we found that one could scarcely stand up . |
| 4 | ‘ What I liked in the books was the free open-air life , the spice of illegality and daring , roguish characters — the opportunities so far exceeding my own , the gun , the great pond , the country home , the apparently endless leisure — the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher — and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln , and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent . ’ |
| 5 | We have already seen that Hobbes and Gassendi diverged from Bacon 's belief that the scrutiny of natural histories would enable one to reach certainty about the causes of things , and thought that one could produce conjectures and hypotheses at best . |
| 6 | He wanted to show that one could be an educated and intelligent believer without abandoning the apostolic rule of faith and life . |
| 7 | After Hitler had again suggested in a speech in mid-March 1941 that Britain would be conquered and the war ended finally in Germany 's favour within the next year , people were heard to remark that ‘ the Führer had never held out a prospect of something which had not happened ’ , and that one could therefore unquestionably rely upon the imminent defeat of Britain and end of the war . |
| 8 | Inanna was the most beautiful , friendly , and uncooperative horse that one could ever have the misfortune to own ; because from her looks she promised so much , but from her heart she gave so little ! |
| 9 | Shamanism , he explained patiently for the three idiot Brits , was a primitive practice of self-denial so that one could travel in the land of the dead and return unscathed . |
| 10 | The scene was sufficiently oriental that one could easily imagine some Hokusai image of a dragon rising into the skies above the Drachenfels . |
| 11 | Since then it had been discovered that one could be a parachutist and live . |
| 12 | He further intimated that one could never be certain what sort of action a feeble government might take in an attempt to solve its problems . |
| 13 | Although he did not succeed in imposing his strict standards of reliability on later Greek historians , he effectively discouraged the idea that one could do genuine historical research about the Past . |
| 14 | There is no way , for example , that one could work out that the lens came originally from an overlying sheet of cells without following its development . |
| 15 | The Fen country around Coton was very flat , with water-filled dykes instead of hedges , and few trees , so that one could see long distances without the view being obstructed — ‘ right to the horizon , ’ Cheryl reported excitedly to her mummy in one of her letters home . |
| 16 | I argued that one could never trust the Russian leaders . |
| 17 | They also pointed out that there ‘ are many variants of the Enthoven plan that one could invent ’ . |
| 18 | At the beginning of this century it was believed that one could find a basic element of learning that was common to all these activities ; and that once this was established it would be possible to construct a single theory that would explain all learning and would provide a once-and-for-all guide to teaching . |
| 19 | We could n't have anticipated that one could we ? |
| 20 | English mathematics had been in a contemptible state for so long that one could hardly have expected a solution to such an important problem to come from that quarter . |
| 21 | He had the kind of hutzpah and powerful personality combined with a musical and intelligence that one could either resent strongly or admire and take on board . ’ |
| 22 | Dalton Baldwin 's linchpin accompaniments are all that one could hope for in terms of grace and humour . |
| 23 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 24 | Poor old man , she thought , having by now recovered from the shock of his appearance ; he was so ill that one could n't mind what he said or did . |
| 25 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 26 | Of course there is a wide variety of sayings that one could choose , as well as such traditional styles as alphabets , or one 's name and the date on which the sampler was completed . |
| 27 | One can understand a steam locomotive appearing wreathed in smoke and surplus steam to fascinate the unsuspecting person and seemingly so solid that one could reach out and touch it , but a Deltic ? |
| 28 | * I suppose that one could consider that the crack has been blunted . |
| 29 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 30 | He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation . |