Example sentences of "one could [vb infin] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the relationships were all in fives , one could tell if a particular category was missing from our present knowledge and predict roughly what kind of new organism would eventually be discovered to fill the gap . |
| 2 | That is to say , one could detect that the person in blue somewhere to one 's left was almost certainly one 's wife . |
| 3 | Both men 's pride was assuaged and one could sense that a corner had been turned , that the two last races of the season would be run with strict fairness and impartiality . |
| 4 | The educational and cultural gap between the élite évolués and the rest of the African population was noted by Almond and Coleman as a ‘ marked discontinuity in communication ’ between the two ; at the same time , between this African élite and European Frenchmen , ‘ one could argue that a unified communications process tended to develop ’ . |
| 5 | With openness , one could argue that the Institute would be seen to be discharging its obligations under statutory regulation and its charter . |
| 6 | One could argue that the poisonous atmosphere in rugby is a rather sad reflection of the vitriolic exchanges between politicians . |
| 7 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 8 | One could argue that the similarity is coincidental ; alternatively , one could claim that similar conditions have evoked a similar response to two events separated by half a century . |
| 9 | Similarly , one could argue that the saturation of nineteenth-century bourgeois homes with printed music resulted , in some respects , not in a mass of passive reproducers but in an intensely active music culture , with a high regard for the immediacy of performance and the ‘ spiritual ’ value of musical communication . |
| 10 | Similarly , one could argue that the attenuation theory does not apply to languages such as Arabic which have a definite article but no explicit marker of indefiniteness . |
| 11 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 12 | Now , no one could claim that a television set saves time . |
| 13 | In an earlier definition , where pragmatics was restricted to encoded aspects of context , one could claim that the relevant aspects of context should not be specified in advance but rather discovered by a survey of the world 's languages . |
| 14 | One could say that a bank manager living alone will receive the same discount as a dustman . |
| 15 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 16 | One could say that the pressing question is how it is possible to live , rather than what teleology to adopt ; or at least that the latter does not sort the former out . |
| 17 | The creation of a powerful State thus preceded the creation of a popular nationalism for these countries ( in contrast to most later cases ) , and , indeed , one could say that the manufacture of a popular patriotism was an instrument for the consolidation of State power here . |
| 18 | One could say that the duck goes ‘ quack ’ because his vocal organs will only say ‘ quack ’ , and that these vocal organs are genetically patterned . |
| 19 | One could say that the sentence ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ puts the state of affairs of its having been the knave of hearts who stole the tarts upon the mat for discussion . |
| 20 | To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income . |
| 21 | On the publishing side , which as usual outnumbered the booksellers by a good measure , there was a rash of thrusting marketing types along with the usual grey suits and sales people , so one could say that the publishers had got it more or less right . |
| 22 | If one takes degrees of latitude on the surface of time to be the analogue of time , one could say that the surface of the earth begins at the North Pole . |
| 23 | Indeed , one could say that the latter without the former is more use to the game of Trivial Pursuit than it is to science . |
| 24 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 25 | Generally speaking , one could say that the ‘ sun shone on the righteous ’ as virtually all of the outings enjoyed good weather . |
| 26 | More fundamentally , one could ask whether the problem should be seen in terms of an interaction between nations at all , for in what sense can a nation be a ‘ player ’ ? |
| 27 | Alternatively , one could ask whether the working class suffer social closure inasmuch as its members find upward mobility into the ranks of the middle class exceptionally difficult . |
| 28 | * I suppose that one could consider that the crack has been blunted . |
| 29 | Strangely enough one could believe that the slightest glimmer of light on the dark horizon could be the lights of Geneva , and the glimmer became a glow and the glow became more positive and one could distinguish the lights which were real lights and those which were the reflections on the lake . |
| 30 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |