Example sentences of "one can not help " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not thus , one can not help feeling , that the serious artist addresses a fellow practitioner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 4 | One can not help but wonder whether these taboos originally had another meaning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | One can not help but feel apprehensive that every step forward will have to be reversed on the return journey when energy is flagging . |
| 10 | One can not help wondering what practices condoned by our contemporary society will fall foul of tomorrow 's humane conscience . |
| 11 | One can not help wondering what future generations will think of our freaks and follies . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 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 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 16 | One can not help imagining , however , what Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio would have made of the roles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One can not help but reflect on how much all of this emerging artistry stems back to the exhibitions of Tom Van Sant 's work in the USA and UK during 1976 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | If one reads even more attentively , one can not help noting a curious stylistic feature not entirely dissociated from Treebeard . |
| 22 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 23 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 24 | Give the lack of resources and expertise in state organisations , one can not help thinking the same thing about this new initiative . |
| 25 | After reading this , one can not help but be puzzled that your politics and current-affairs coverage seems to start from the opposite premise and , unsurprisingly , reaches the opposite conclusions . |
| 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 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Speculation is always interesting ( if somewhat fruitless ) , and one can not help but wonder what 1991 will being forth in the field of arms , armour and militaria . |