Example sentences of "one can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 2 | ‘ But one can not see greatly far down . |
| 3 | One can not write of ‘ the real world ’ till such a question has been answered . |
| 4 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 5 | Certainly , I have known some undergraduates who would rise brilliantly to such a challenge ; but they are an exception , and one can not base a course on what would suit the exceptional student , much as one would like to . |
| 6 | It is not thus , one can not help feeling , that the serious artist addresses a fellow practitioner . |
| 7 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
| 8 | In the GDR , by contrast , one can not talk of ‘ economic crisis ’ in the sense that one can use that term for Poland , the Soviet Union , and even for Hungary . |
| 9 | Since both hands are needed for the descent , as much as for the climb , one can not keep hold of any eggs that one finds . |
| 10 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 11 | But Honderich is too busy allocating guilt to be discriminating in his investigations , with the usual result that one can not be sure if the right people have been convicted . |
| 12 | One can not say the same for those films which make specific connections between earlier events in British history and now . |
| 13 | ‘ One can not speak too highly of Dorset social services . |
| 14 | And third , if — and admittedly , this is a huge if — the next decade sees a retreat from the brash consumerism of the mid-1980s , one can not resist the thought that it is small , local businesses which will better cope with , pander to and profit from the change in mood . |
| 15 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 16 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 17 | After all , one can not seriously expect the status of the GDR to change radically while the status of the FRG remains the same . |
| 18 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 19 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Clad head-to-toe in black , she could be a mourner at a wake , but from her body language one can not quite make out her precise attitude towards the dear departed . |
| 22 | Clearly one can not hope to give a comprehensive survey of the history of metals and metalworking in a single chapter . |
| 23 | Clearly , however , one can not remove such a large sample from a fine ceramic artefact on offer to a museum . |
| 24 | The reaction of the urban proletariat was natural ; one can not safely deduce from it any decisive change in attitude towards death and survival . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 26 | Of course , one can not be adamant about whether they merit the label ‘ murder ’ , because that is a question of drawing the line between murder and manslaughter , which is not susceptible of any precise resolution . |
| 27 | This test is ambiguous as to whether or not D must have thought about whether the woman is consenting , but there are those who argue that one can not be said ‘ not to care less ’ about something unless one has considered it . |
| 28 | One can not help but wonder whether these taboos originally had another meaning . |
| 29 | Philosophers could argue against them , playwrights could mock them , but their following remained strong among the many who felt that one can not be too careful not to offend the cosmic powers . |
| 30 | These categories are fixed : one can not readily induce an ectodermal cell to turn into muscle or bone . |