Example sentences of "no one can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 2 | ‘ No one can explain the feeling , apart from the fans of Third Lanark . ’ |
| 3 | The correspondence of Anselm 's last year is filled with the subject , and no one can mistake the intensity of his feeling on the matter . |
| 4 | A destructive hypersimulation , a destructive hyperconformity … that has all the appearance of a victorious challenge — no one can measure the strength of this challenge … |
| 5 | No one can control the protestant 's education or the books which he shall read . |
| 6 | No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement . |
| 7 | No one can anticipate the precise skills that workers will need to succeed on the job when information processing , knowhow , and creativity are the value added . |
| 8 | Mr Wey and his gallery have vanished and no one can locate the pictures . |
| 9 | That is a context which includes such passages found in the same judgment of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re J. [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 as the following , at p. 41 : ‘ No one can dictate the treatment to be given to the child — neither court , parents nor doctors . |
| 10 | ‘ No one can dictate the treatment to be given to the child — neither court , parents nor doctors . |
| 11 | Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ . |
| 12 | Typically , the way he describes it gives it all an edge , a challenge , like he 's looking out to make sure no one can get the drop on him . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , no one can buy the paper for hard currency , not even the mighty Ministry of Defence , because the only bank for foreign trade operations has declared itself almost bankrupt , and refuses to return hard currency to its owners . |
| 14 | No one can predict the future of boxing , either at the level of particular victories or defeats , in effect a structure of repetition , nor at the more general level of possible modifications or developments of the sport . |
| 15 | No one can predict the sales success of an ad , and it is often difficult to measure the success even afterwards . |
| 16 | In addition to this , no one can forecast the moment of death . |
| 17 | No one can escape the knowledge that we occupy that ‘ real world ’ , defined by profit and loss , the bottom line of an accounting system that is inflexible and unappealable . |
| 18 | No one can condemn the murder of a child in Warrington and be equivocal about a similar attempt on our own streets . |
| 19 | No one can teach the desert folk about kindness . |
| 20 | George Bush calls the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel ‘ outrageous ’ while exalting the prowess of those who have thrown double the explosive power of the Hiroshima Bomb on Baghdad , not to liberate Kuwait , but to control the oil , and remind all Arab peoples that no one can defy the American will to become the world 's policemen now that the Soviet Union is not to be counted for as an opponent . |
| 21 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 22 | Redhead Sonia , currently enjoying a Top 40 hit with Boogie Nights , says : ‘ One of the problems is no one can understand the foreign songs and the contest is suffering as a result . |
| 23 | It is also , simply because it is critical , a sort of potential morality — even an actual one — and no one can understand the Age of Criticism without gasping that , like the Crusades or the Reformation , its prime purpose was a far-reaching reform of the human spirit . |
| 24 | Here is De Camp 's description of the continuum as it applies to Jamaica ( 1971:350 ) : no one can deny the extreme variability of Jamaican English … in Jamaica there is no sharp cleavage between Creole and standard . |
| 25 | No one can fault the absolute loyalty that Willie gave to Ted and then Margaret . |
| 26 | No one can take the 20-minute boat trip or fly to the airstrip without police permits which are hard to obtain . |
| 27 | The house he inherited was subsumed , and no one can doubt the distinction of the new entrance front , Marot 's claims to which are clarified by Gervase Jackson-Stops . |
| 28 | No one can read the Pentateuch and conclude that justice is just concerned with private property and the rule of law . |