Example sentences of "no one can [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can be tired all the time . |
| 2 | No one can be in more than one place at any time , and in the life of a single or an album , a record company needs people working in more than five places all at once . |
| 3 | No one can be forced into an ujamaa village , and no official — at any level — can go and tell the members of an ujamaa village what they should do together , and what they should continue to do as individual farmers . |
| 4 | No one can be entirely certain . |
| 5 | The scale of the problem is thought to have allowed huge thefts but no one can be prosecuted because no records of the plants exist . |
| 6 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 7 | The ethics of restoring material in this way can be endlessly debated ; the matter is complicated in the case of Don Carlos because Verdi sanctioned four versions , and no one can be sure he would have disapproved of the restoration of his Paris excisions . |
| 8 | In my own case no one can be expected to remember every fine detail of matters they have undertaken . |
| 9 | No one can be more intimate in his relationship with our spirit than God 's Spirit . |
| 10 | Not because of his trees , you understand , but because no one can be expected to put up with someone singing Kumbaya . |
| 11 | The past has gone and no one can be sure of what is to come in the future . |
| 12 | No one can be healed if at one level ( often on an unconscious level ) they do not wish to be healed , or if they can not trust , or let go of any fears that may be blocking the flow of healing energies . |
| 13 | Possibly for ceremonies marking the annual seasons but no one can be sure . |
| 14 | No one can be forced to listen . |
| 15 | Here we do not have to ask by what standards the agent estimates benefit , since no one can be benefited if he does not survive . |
| 16 | No one can be in any doubt now that she was pulling the strings behind the royal side show that has preoccupied Britain for the past six months . |
| 17 | No one can be like that all the time . ’ |
| 18 | But this again is running against a crucial point in The Lord of the Rings , namely that no one can be trusted , not even ‘ the Keepers of the Three ’ . |
| 19 | No one can be quite sure of the actual numbers , though it was certainly not less than this estimate . |
| 20 | No one can be quite sure , of course , what has caused the two species to evolve in slightly different ways . |
| 21 | No one can be sure how many are left , but it is probably far fewer than 10,000 . |
| 22 | No one can be sure that wiser decisions on these points would have prevented disaster , or what would have happened if the world had adopted any of the recent proposals for the use of force . |
| 23 | The few oral statements reported in the text are clearly marked as such so that no one can be in doubt as to their hypothetical nature . |
| 24 | A person 's social development is thus crucially linked to the physical fact of ageing : no one can be fixed in a low position , but must eventually succeed to the highest status , simply by staying alive . |
| 25 | ( Example : Julian Symons 's widely anthologised short story as if By Magic , about a murder on the pier in which the killer is bound to have horribly bloodied his jacket but where no one can be seen in such a state . |
| 26 | Even though your settlement may not be in a known danger area , no one can be sure . |
| 27 | No one can be trusted . |
| 28 | ‘ No one can be trusted , ’ Julie said , echoing the words on the paper . |
| 29 | ‘ No one can be trusted . ’ |
| 30 | No one can be trusted . |