Example sentences of "one can not do " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 2 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 3 | One can not do that in any sense of fairness or justice to those who have , without any political considerations , given their working lives to the Scottish Bus Group and its subsidiaries . |
| 4 | The idea that one can not do anything about unemployment is the real gospel of despair . |
| 5 | But in politics one can not do such clever mathematical sums and hope that events will conform . |