Example sentences of "one can [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can be tired all the time . |
| 2 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 3 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 4 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 5 | No one can be in more than one place at any time , and in the life of a single or an album , a record company needs people working in more than five places all at once . |
| 6 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 7 | No one can be forced into an ujamaa village , and no official — at any level — can go and tell the members of an ujamaa village what they should do together , and what they should continue to do as individual farmers . |
| 8 | Today , when facing the outside world , the strategy of senior civil servants is also frequently one of hedging ; programmes are often put up to three donors simultaneously , so that the influence of one can be offset against the influence of another . |
| 9 | No one can be entirely certain . |
| 10 | The scale of the problem is thought to have allowed huge thefts but no one can be prosecuted because no records of the plants exist . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , this one can be enjoyed for what it does in its own right . |
| 12 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 13 | But one can be too political about mission , or the work of preaching , as contemporary churchmen would have called it . |
| 14 | Why , he thought — if one can be said to think in dreams — did I ever take this on ? |
| 15 | The ethics of restoring material in this way can be endlessly debated ; the matter is complicated in the case of Don Carlos because Verdi sanctioned four versions , and no one can be sure he would have disapproved of the restoration of his Paris excisions . |
| 16 | In my own case no one can be expected to remember every fine detail of matters they have undertaken . |
| 17 | To identify them it is usually essential to clean off most of the enclosing rock , otherwise one can be misled by superficial resemblance . |
| 18 | No one can be more intimate in his relationship with our spirit than God 's Spirit . |
| 19 | It sounds fantastic to say that one can be enamoured of a season , but that is something like what happened : and , as before , the experience was one of intense desire . |
| 20 | Of each pair of alleles , only one can be the lucky one that enters any given sperm or egg . |
| 21 | Not because of his trees , you understand , but because no one can be expected to put up with someone singing Kumbaya . |
| 22 | Whenever a limb abnormality involves truncation , one can be pretty sure that this is due to damage to the ridge and so loss of the progress zone . |
| 23 | Wherever one finds pillow lavas in sequences of old rocks , one can be sure that they formed under water in the same way as their modern counterparts , and this , amongst other things , helps to establish the sites of ancient oceanic volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges . |
| 24 | The past has gone and no one can be sure of what is to come in the future . |
| 25 | No one can be healed if at one level ( often on an unconscious level ) they do not wish to be healed , or if they can not trust , or let go of any fears that may be blocking the flow of healing energies . |
| 26 | It is unusual for a person to lose the sight in both eyes at the same time , but loss of sight in one can be followed later by loss of sight in the second eye . |
| 27 | Suggestions have included the proportion of adults who can read , or the proportion of females attending primary school ; one can be sure that the higher either of these indicators go , the more the basic educational needs of all members of a given society are being met . |
| 28 | There were so many versions of Jesus , but only one can be true if you allow history to pronounce the verdict . |
| 29 | It means that one can be very positive about the same system coping with LMS decision-making . |
| 30 | My personal view is that one can be more perceptive in a project where one finds the whole field fascinating , but it is vitally important to try to find a neutral position . |