Example sentences of "one can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 2 | Let no one ever be sincere with me — it is a failure of respect , and respect is a thing one can never get enough of . |
| 3 | One can therefore conclude that there is a sense of unity throughout the catholic — nationalist population as a whole , though one in which certain groups , namely farming interests and the church , at both clerical and popular levels , have strategically dominated , at least until recently . |
| 4 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 5 | No one can control the protestant 's education or the books which he shall read . |
| 6 | One can recognize here , with Lévi-Strauss ( 1968 ) , the importance of ambiguous mediators in relating the opposites within one 's cultural universe and one can add the Apprentice Boys to Lévi-Strauss 's shortlist of tricksters and twins in this role . |
| 7 | One can recognize here , with Lévi-Strauss ( 1968 ) , the importance of ambiguous mediators in relating the opposites within one 's cultural universe and one can add the Apprentice Boys to Lévi-Strauss 's shortlist of tricksters and twins in this role . |
| 8 | One can now see how the preliminary data dealt with in Chapter 1 on good and bad religiosity among Roman catholics is indicative of a long-standing historical contradiction . |
| 9 | In reaction to this , one can say that the very way in which the church leaders view the subject is itself revealing of significant mediations between religion , state , and national ideology in the institutions of schooling . |
| 10 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 11 | It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After all , since our last meeting , if one can call it a meeting , at the entrance to the sweet little National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh , all those years ago , you have cut yourself off from your friends and well-wishers . |
| 14 | A crystal ball in which one can call up the past ? |
| 15 | ‘ But one can not see greatly far down . |
| 16 | No one can look back at you like that unless … |
| 17 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 18 | One can not write of ‘ the real world ’ till such a question has been answered . |
| 19 | No one can be tired all the time . |
| 20 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 21 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 22 | In fact , the striking dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients show us instead that skills which seem so simple and automatic in the course of everyday life are in fact comprised of a large number of functional sub-components , any of which may be impaired by brain injury . |
| 23 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 24 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 25 | No one can deny that professional tennis is going through one of those periods when a sure thing in the betting sense is a short cut to bankruptcy . |
| 26 | Nothing wrong with that , of course , but let's not pretend that one can really make a decent living just by turning wood . |
| 27 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 28 | Repainting schemes in particular have been more imaginative , and for example one can proudly take overseas visitors interested in railways around our great cathedrals of the steam age now doing record business in a whole variety of ways … more trains and passengers , more refreshment facilities , many more shopping complexes . |
| 29 | Subsidies are out ; if no one can operate their on-train catering profitably , then no catering there will be . |
| 30 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |