Example sentences of "one can [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 2 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 3 | One can compare liability under the rule with the liability at common law for dangerous animals which was stricter . |
| 4 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 5 | Therefore these will always be lower , but at least one can compare town with town , and see the differences . |
| 6 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 7 | One can not expect the Government to accept European Community rules about the ’ economically advantageous ’ projects that should be accepted when any scheme goes out to private tender but one can expect consistency . |
| 8 | If one can go north , one can turn around and head south ; equally , if one can go forward in imaginary time , one ought to be able to turn round and go backward . |
| 9 | This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret . |
| 10 | One can create order out of disorder ( for example , one can paint the house ) , but that requires expenditure of effort or energy and so decreases the amount of ordered energy available . |
| 11 | No one can cook bread and better pudding quite like the mother-in-law , can they ! |
| 12 | The increased safety of biopsy under steroid cover also means that one can contemplate radiotherapy as a safe treatment on its own — producing improvement in 60% of cases — rather than as an adjunct to surgical excision of the metastasis . |
| 13 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 14 | If one can identify regime breaks then one can discriminate between models which were previously observationally equivalent . |
| 15 | One can pull interest rates up , but one can not push the string to get them down again . |
| 16 | One can feel responsibility without feeling love , otherwise the world would be uninhabited . |
| 17 | No one can shift responsibility on to others or trade off their resources . |
| 18 | I like to think that one can make provision to eat almost anywhere in the home , just as one should be able to move small tables about to different parts of the garden It is obviously nice to be able to eat in the kitchen or in the living room . |
| 19 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 20 | We do not have 21-cm observations of this region with a sufficiently high resolution to look for evidence of a concentric outer neutral gas shell , but one can make use of an assumed uniform dust-gas ratio and examine the IRAS 100μm sky plate covering this region . |
| 21 | My personal feeling is that singularities are probably still present , though one can continue time past them in a certain mathematical sense . |
| 22 | But if everything is political , as is often proclaimed , then nothing is ; one can invoke Saussure in the assertion that meaning is a matter of differentiation . |
| 23 | At the same time the play leaves a key question tantalisingly unresolved : whether , in a repressive state , one can seek freedom for oneself without seeking it for others . |
| 24 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 25 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 26 | One can claim compensation for the dismaying experience of a spoilt holiday : it is strange that the same principle does not apply to the breaking of obligations under employment contracts . |
| 27 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 28 | Sometimes , though , there is substantial support for the view that the media are important in forming public perceptions ; one can find evidence for this in studies of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , ‘ race and the mass media ’ , ‘ reporting the welfare state ’ , as well as studies of ‘ moral panics ’ . |
| 29 | In the second phase , one can find evidence of the press 's gradual ‘ emancipation from the political controls , diverse and sometimes imperceptible , that replaced [ state control ] ’ . |
| 30 | In Marxist and elite theory , where perceived interests differ from objective interests , one can find evidence of the power of the dominant class to shape the values of those over whom power is exercised . |