Example sentences of "one can [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 32 | A broken one can be replaced at a more convenient time . |
| 33 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 34 | One can be dealt with quickly . |
| 35 | one can be moved in discrete steps relative to the other . |
| 36 | One can be attributed incomer status in any local community because one does not have close kin in the area , because one was not born there or , simply , because one has not become known in them one can not claim membership in terms of any of these attributes . |
| 37 | There is no need to go self-consciously looking for intuitions , for then one can be deceived and become the victim of imagination , but such faculties are automatically rediscovered as we learn the art of meditation , of stillness , and true mind control . |
| 38 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 39 | Possibly for ceremonies marking the annual seasons but no one can be sure . |
| 40 | A dial gives you the running total of the amount of gallons the cartridge has deal with , so a new one can be ordered in good time . |
| 41 | Should you not wish to cut the original saddle , a new one can be ordered from any Martin dealer . |
| 42 | Technically , this one can be played using either pick or fingerstyle , although I think that Joe used a pick on the record . |
| 43 | No one can be forced to listen . |
| 44 | As we saw in a previous chapter , all the planes or levels of the human being interact with one another , and defects arising in one can be experienced by the others and can cause upsets in them . |
| 45 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 46 | Which one can be decided arbitrarily ( as in the preceding chapter ) or using penalties ( as in this chapter ) . |
| 47 | Here we do not have to ask by what standards the agent estimates benefit , since no one can be benefited if he does not survive . |
| 48 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 49 | No one can be like that all the time . ’ |
| 50 | One can be friends with men without that sort of gossip . |
| 51 | What one can be absolutely sure about is that giving up does the other side 's work for them , and ruins all your own possible futures and other people 's as well . |
| 52 | But this again is running against a crucial point in The Lord of the Rings , namely that no one can be trusted , not even ‘ the Keepers of the Three ’ . |
| 53 | You could use this idea for any season of the year , either copying a poem you know or making up your own : a poem written by a friend or loved one can be a much treasured gift . |
| 54 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 55 | Yet according to Armstrong one can be aware of the heat of some material things , the parts of one 's body , without feeling the heat with anything . |
| 56 | No one can be quite sure of the actual numbers , though it was certainly not less than this estimate . |
| 57 | No one can be quite sure , of course , what has caused the two species to evolve in slightly different ways . |
| 58 | No one can be sure how many are left , but it is probably far fewer than 10,000 . |
| 59 | Waugh was a good writer ruined , Orwell concluded , by superstition : ‘ about as good a novelist as one can be … while holding untenable opinions ’ , and the death of Lord Marchmain at the end of Brideshead predictably repelled him , when an apparently unregenerate peer silently makes the sign of the cross and the two lovers , though divorced , realise in a religious ecstasy that they can never marry . |
| 60 | He aptly compares him to Edmund Wilson , as a stylist , and one feels Orwell 's formula could easily have been returned : about as good a writer as one can be while holding untenable opinions . |