Example sentences of "one can [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |
| 2 | At least no one can accuse Watson of being half-hearted . |
| 3 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 4 | There is no way in which one can compare properties built by the MOD for service men with the scandalous performance of a number of local authorities . |
| 5 | One can compare liability under the rule with the liability at common law for dangerous animals which was stricter . |
| 6 | As a result of acquiring writing ‘ one can compare side by side utterances that have been made at different times and places ’ ( 1977 , pp. 11 — 12 ) . |
| 7 | Therefore these will always be lower , but at least one can compare town with town , and see the differences . |
| 8 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 9 | One can not expect the Government to accept European Community rules about the ’ economically advantageous ’ projects that should be accepted when any scheme goes out to private tender but one can expect consistency . |
| 10 | One can expect cries of ‘ witchcraft ’ , ‘ blasphemy ’ , ‘ sacrilege ’ and ‘ idolatry ’ to be directed against those who seek to resacralize the female body . |
| 11 | From analysis of the game system one can draw conclusions about the stability of the various outcomes . |
| 12 | One can transmit impressions such as disapproval , disgust , anger , irritation , pleasure , love and understanding by facial gesture , indeed its effectiveness is recognised in colloquial expressions such as ‘ a look enough to kill ’ or ‘ a sour look ’ . |
| 13 | The fact that one can commit words to paper without any apparent loss of intelligibility suggests that there is , in fact , a clean division between the lexical and the non-verbal component of human communication , and that the so-called kinesic variables such as facial expression , posture , and hand movements are just optional extras . |
| 14 | For instance , one can place conditions on each node in the first layer . |
| 15 | If one can go north , one can turn around and head south ; equally , if one can go forward in imaginary time , one ought to be able to turn round and go backward . |
| 16 | This account can be illustrated by considering his analysis of how discrimination training might increase the ease with which one can distinguish burgundy from claret . |
| 17 | For example , one can examine returns to scale by taking a ray from the origin . |
| 18 | One can create order out of disorder ( for example , one can paint the house ) , but that requires expenditure of effort or energy and so decreases the amount of ordered energy available . |
| 19 | I mean , I think one , the first thing to be said is that one can assure members covering all the other C A B's was that they actually got their bids in full . |
| 20 | No one can cook bread and better pudding quite like the mother-in-law , can they ! |
| 21 | No one can love God or delight in God without having a passion for God . |
| 22 | The increased safety of biopsy under steroid cover also means that one can contemplate radiotherapy as a safe treatment on its own — producing improvement in 60% of cases — rather than as an adjunct to surgical excision of the metastasis . |
| 23 | It is easier to do this if one can switch course , yet still be working within the framework of broad objectives . |
| 24 | If one can identify regime breaks then one can discriminate between models which were previously observationally equivalent . |
| 25 | One can pull interest rates up , but one can not push the string to get them down again . |
| 26 | One can feel responsibility without feeling love , otherwise the world would be uninhabited . |
| 27 | No one can shift responsibility on to others or trade off their resources . |
| 28 | In Behbehanian proposal one can detect elements of the fantastic , almost surrealist path the Shah had been destined to try to follow throughout his life . |
| 29 | Certainly one can detect pre-echoes of both and the work is remarkable for its fluency , sensitive treatment of the words and the melodic grandeur familiar from Blest Pair of Sirens . |
| 30 | But no one can blame Rush for telling it like it is . |