Example sentences of "be [det] one could " in BNC.
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1 | Many people believed that such low molecular weight products were all one could hope for from ethylene . |
2 | The Alteceans wheezed moistly at her , waving their paws at their mounds of surplus respirators and dismantled heat-exchangers as if these treasures were all one could possibly require in life . |
3 | That 's all one could say . |
4 | The truth , she mused , as others had done before her , was an elusive element , and — short of shooting them in the kneecaps , or intermittently holding their heads under water there was little one could do to persuade people to reveal it . |
5 | Now the reason that erm they , they were trying to promote the use of tampons was that one could n't get cotton to make cotton wool and so it was n't possible any , any erm er erm sanitary garments that were made of cotton were commandeered and used for people in essential war work or the armed forces . |