Example sentences of "one can not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Car hire is expensive in Madeira considering that one can not travel many miles in a day , but it is not excessive if the car is shared between four people . |
| 3 | They are of value in guiding the clinician 's testing of aphasic patients , but are not of direct value in relation to theorising about the language-processing system and how it can go wrong after brain damage , because one can not answer such question as ‘ In Broca 's aphasia , how is the language-processing system malfunctioning ? ’ |
| 4 | The reason is that the organizational changes discussed by Williamson influence the distribution of power both within and between firms , and one can not presume that power is used to produce efficient outcomes . |
| 5 | Without creativity , problems reduce to exercises , though this is a gradual transition and one can not draw any firm line between problems and exercises . |
| 6 | Based on the data we have now , one can not draw any conclusions about long-XXXX term trends because of the natural fluctuations " , he said . |
| 7 | One can not press this argument too far . |
| 8 | But in politics one can not do such clever mathematical sums and hope that events will conform . |
| 9 | One can not do that in any sense of fairness or justice to those who have , without any political considerations , given their working lives to the Scottish Bus Group and its subsidiaries . |
| 10 | One can not accredit those problems to immigration . |
| 11 | Clearly , however , one can not remove such a large sample from a fine ceramic artefact on offer to a museum . |
| 12 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 13 | By this date there must have been a very fine library at Islay House collected over the two hundred years since it was built ; one can not imagine that Eallabus which produced Dr. John Crawford who wrote " A History of the Indian Archipelago " and " A Grammar & Dictionary of the Malay Language , " and the distinguished surgeon Professor Cheine , was without a library . |
| 14 | The faces are meek and accepting , the tears trembling gently on the cheeks ; one can not imagine these model women roaring with laughter or howling with rage . |
| 15 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 16 | One can not discriminate more or less . |
| 17 | The major powers have behaved in a reasonably responsible way , but one can not have such confidence in minor powers like Libya or Iraq , Pakistan , or even Azerbaijan . |
| 18 | Logically , one can not have that both ways . |
| 19 | Further , it is a debate which displays all the symptoms of degeneration in argument that sociology is too often heir to , namely thinking about issues in dualistic terms ; that , in this case , the choice is between two sides , the quantitative and the qualitative and that one can not have both . |
| 20 | One can not keep that sort of information to oneself . ’ |
| 21 | Even making the most lavish allowance for the greater purchasing power of money in the sixteenth century , one can not consider these sums very generous for officials of such standing . |
| 22 | ‘ One can not hurry these things , ’ said the old alchemist peevishly . |