Example sentences of "one can be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The more a government squawks about ‘ individual freedoms ’ , ‘ non-intervention by the state ’ , ‘ private enterprise ’ , and the other great rallying calls of capital , the more certain one can be of the total control by that state of its citizens . |
| 3 | Well this one can be for Reggie . |
| 4 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 5 | It was at moments like this that I would reflect on concepts like the ‘ community ’ of work and how lost one can be without it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No one can be like that all the time . ’ |