Example sentences of "that one can [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 An interest in ‘ the relationships that the media affect ’ means , in effect , that one can legitimately explore an enormous field of activity ; no field is precluded since the media are omnipresent .
2 This does not however mean that one can clearly distinguish a concept of ‘ rule of law ’ in the legal system from ‘ rule of law ’ as part of the ideological system .
3 Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective .
4 Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood .
5 It is thus from the 1920s that one can realistically chart a conflict in the Conservative party between a libertarian-individualist tendency and a paternalist-collectivist tendency .
6 The reason for this must be that one can hardly cause an explosion without realizing that one is about to do so , and that explosions usually create danger and must be known to do so , unless they are carefully controlled in an area away from members of the public .
7 Thus the bits will fit together after fracture so that one can often glue a broken vase together quite plausibly .
8 In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ .
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