Example sentences of "[verb] that one can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers suggest that one can easily overestimate the significance and influence of the embryonic pre-independence African press . |
| 2 | Obviously the modern sophisticated reader will know that one can use the highest points in each square of a fine grid or take the heights of points picked at random to provide data . |
| 3 | Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class . |
| 4 | It is important , however , that they realise that one can not treat labels . |
| 5 | This is an important change and I am glad that we have got away from the odious and patronising attitude of so many local education authorities — particularly Labour local education authorities — that say that one can not trust parents with objective information about how their children 's schools are doing . |
| 6 | In any case , it is permissable to observe that one can not regard the same problem as occuring here . |
| 7 | The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa . |
| 8 | I do think that one can put one 's ideas over rather more forcefully and precisely when one 's present in the flesh , with all one 's conversational resources to hand . ’ |
| 9 | I do not think that one can be sufficiently environmentally friendly from one year to another . |
| 10 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 11 | Bukharin was suggesting that one can not construct a theory of transition a priori but must pragmatically steer towards a given objective , only then will the theory of transition emerge upon the basis of practical and concrete experience . |
| 12 | She brings home everything except potatoes and anyone who says that one ca n't get fresh vegetables in London must do her shopping by telephone , she is convinced . |
| 13 | However , if that application process takes a long time , it is felt that one can not upset that person 's lifestyle — he may be married — and he is allowed to stay . |
| 14 | Dualism assumes that one can paraphrase the SENSE of a text , and that there is a valid separation of sense from significance . |
| 15 | The first assumes that one can distinguish between process and content in a discipline , between methods or procedures on the one hand , and content or information on the other . |
| 16 | If the burden becomes too much and the responsibilities too great , one must always feel that one can turn to somebody who is more knowledgeable , or has broader shoulders and who will share the burden . |
| 17 | However , once granted that one can not infer what to do from fact alone , there seems to be no flaw in the argument . |
| 18 | We also learnt that one can integrate the interests of motorists by using bypasses to take through traffic away , and go in for traffic-calming measures which work . |
| 19 | In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ . |
| 20 | It is said that one can not go anywhere — I know that this was true in west Africa — without meeting someone from Upton who will give good and wise advice . |
| 21 | Block ( 1980 ) has argued that one can construct a case where one would be forced to say that a conscious individual not only contained , but consisted of , other conscious individuals . |
| 22 | We have argued that one can not counterpose the class and racism models of ethnic disadvantage . |
| 23 | Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone ? |
| 24 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 25 | But it does not follow that one can predict with complete accuracy the sentence that a judge will pass in a given case . |
| 26 | This study further shows that one can distinguish clearly between the kind of ‘ very close relationship ’ which will provide emotional support in times of crisis , and closeness in other senses . |
| 27 | ( This , in passing , shows that one can not reduce the potential meaning of to the notions " future " , " potential " , " unrealized " or " hypothetical " . ) |
| 28 | I accept that one can make some criticisms about Labour local authorities , but what I dislike about the Secretary of State 's usual contribution is that it is so cliche d , simplistic and grotesque . |
| 29 | We were told that one can not reconstruct something that is not there . |
| 30 | Included in it is what is called the uncertainty principle , which states that one can never precisely measure the position and the velocity of a particle at the same time ; the more accurately you can measure one , the less accurately you can measure the other . |