Example sentences of "one can not help [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 2 | One can not help imagining , however , what Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio would have made of the roles . |
| 3 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 4 | One can not help reflecting what would happen nowadays in a problem of similar magnitude . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 6 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 7 | Life as seen from the platform at Paddington is most varied and one can not help thinking that an official who spends most of his time there must gain a vast knowledge of human nature … |
| 8 | This strange happening in her own family must , one can not help thinking , have influenced her future plot construction quite as much as her reading of Wilkie Collins . |
| 9 | Give the lack of resources and expertise in state organisations , one can not help thinking the same thing about this new initiative . |
| 10 | If one reads even more attentively , one can not help noting a curious stylistic feature not entirely dissociated from Treebeard . |
| 11 | It is not thus , one can not help feeling , that the serious artist addresses a fellow practitioner . |
| 12 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 13 | It would have been small consolation to him to know that later , on 22 August , she wrote : ‘ Odiously impertinent , insulting and boastful as the French have always been , one can not help feeling for them . ’ |
| 14 | But one can not help feeling that the description by the author of the Gesta Francorum , himself a knight , of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 , is a more characteristic specimen of the ‘ religion ’ of twelfth-century knights . |
| 15 | Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved . |
| 16 | However , it is not completely satisfactory ; one can not help feeling that there is some deeper explanation . |
| 17 | Yet , one can not help feeling that a book of this type , whatever its particular merits , has been overtaken by events and by other writings . |
| 18 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 19 | Because of the better opportunities in the States emigration from the West Indies was common at this time , and one can not help wondering how many more outstanding players might have graced their cricket had their parents not left . |
| 20 | One can not help wondering what practices condoned by our contemporary society will fall foul of tomorrow 's humane conscience . |
| 21 | One can not help wondering what future generations will think of our freaks and follies . |
| 22 | While the successive pages do indicate his point clearly , one can not help wondering whether 40 consecutive pages from the North American Telidon system , and 27 pages Listing topics available on Britain 's Prestel service , information providers and applications are not partly a convenient way of filling space ! |
| 23 | But if it was intended that Jesus survive the Cross , or never perhaps be crucified at all , one can not help wondering whether Judas was privy to the plan . |
| 24 | One can not help wondering : how many such series will the market bear ? |
| 25 | When one turns to Katsaris 's Mendelssohn piano concertos some of the same problems of self-conscious technical prowess remain , but one can not help responding to the sheer verve and impetus of the playing . |
| 26 | Fortunately the man with this powerful patron was popular with the parishioners , but one can not help suspecting , from Montrose 's comments , that this was really a secondary consideration : |
| 27 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 28 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 29 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |