Example sentences of "one can [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 2 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 3 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 4 | Now it might be argued as was done by Kant , for example — that the idea of a non-arbitrary , objective , order is built into the very concept of an external object ; that one can not significantly refer to external objects qua external without acknowledging by implication the existence of such an order ; and in a sense this is of course true . |
| 5 | In the first place , such measures have victims whom one can not always compensate at later times . |
| 6 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 7 | The persuasive approach of the alternative initiatives may take longer ( and time is a luxury one can not always afford in politics ) but it should be more influential . |
| 8 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
| 9 | This sort of experiment shows however that with materials of this character one can not really distinguish between practical strength and brittleness so that the introduction of weak internal surfaces can be regarded as raising the strength . |
| 10 | However , one can not really argue with a mathematical theorem . |
| 11 | The reaction of the urban proletariat was natural ; one can not safely deduce from it any decisive change in attitude towards death and survival . |
| 12 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 13 | One must emphasize , however , that this chain of evidence is forged from a number of very uncertain links and that one can not lightly dismiss in its favour , for example , Babinger 's precise and circumstantial dating of Fahreddin Acemi 's death . |
| 14 | If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce . |
| 15 | Once upon a time you used to have a five year planning period , and that has now disappeared , so we live hand to mouth , and the Finance Officer manages marvellously in juggling things round , but one can no longer plan as one used to , and therefore it 's rather sad really , because people no longer have the chance to develop things as they would wish to . |
| 16 | The interior of the villa one can only lamely describe as southern art nouveau ; there is a great deal of panelling , made out of exotic and in some cases aromatic woods , a great deal of marble , of gilt , and of inlaid flooring . |
| 17 | It is through this mastery that one achieves ideal manhood and womanhood in Piaroaland , and through it one can then creatively participate in the building of community . |