Example sentences of "[subord] one can [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night .
2 Most patients with effortful , poorly articulated speech will have ungrammatical speech output with good speech comprehension , but not all — any two of these symptoms can exist without the third , so one can not offer a single theory accounting for all three symptoms at once .
3 One can then say that the mean velocity gradient depends only on u τ and y , although one can not say the same for U because it is separated from its origin by a region in which v is important .
4 On the other hand , if one can not predict the behavior , one could take that as an operational definition that the organism has free will .
5 She herself thinks , of biblical texts , that if one can not accept the ‘ religious , political , and personal ethos ’ of a text ‘ one can not accept its authority as revealed and as Holy Scripture ’ .
6 If one can not hear the loudness of one 's own voice , there is difficulty in modulating voice volume according to background noise .
7 It is not felt that the danger is a real one because one can never control the discretion of trustees .
8 One can not judge which of these views is preferable , because one can only infer the motives of the landowners from their actions ; we do not know if they were genuinely frightened by the memory of the revolt , or for how long any such fear persisted .
9 So it is not possible to test Goody 's hypothesis since one can not find an isolated society on which to test the cognitive and other consequences of ‘ purely ’ oral communication .
10 Notches on tallies were an early way of scoring in cricket matches , and people are still said to ‘ notch up ’ a good score , just as one can still hear a commentator say that a free-scoring batsman is ‘ in good nick ’ .
11 It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed .
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