Example sentences of "one can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 2 | However , with two divers in the water at the same time , one can aid the other , and there is always the standby diver on the vessel , ready for immediate response . |
| 3 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 4 | One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period . |
| 5 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 6 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 7 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |
| 8 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The further one can extend the grazing season in spring and autumn , without damage to soil or sward , the better . |
| 11 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 12 | One can visit the town of Kartuzy , the centre of Kashubian folklore , and the picturesque Wdydze Kiszewskie with its fascinating open air museum established at the beginning of the century . |
| 13 | Portsmouth is 15 miles to the west and here one can visit the Mary Rose , HMS Warrior and HMS Victory . |
| 14 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 15 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 16 | One can represent the subject " Surgery of the stomach " by combining these symbols , and Ranganathan 's scheme provides , a " preferred order " by which such combinations are to be made ( its explanation would take up many pages and the reader is therefore referred to basic textbooks on library classification , including Needham 's already cited , if he is intrigued to know ) ; the result is L24:4:7 . |
| 17 | Dualism assumes that one can paraphrase the SENSE of a text , and that there is a valid separation of sense from significance . |
| 18 | Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ . |
| 19 | During an eclipse , however , when most of the sun 's light is blocked off by the moon , one can observe the light from those stars . |
| 20 | One can abandon the view that we have any infallible beliefs and find other ways of supposing that some beliefs are non-inferentially justified . |
| 21 | No one can anticipate the precise skills that workers will need to succeed on the job when information processing , knowhow , and creativity are the value added . |
| 22 | The axon transmits information by means of electrical impulses , and it is beeause these cause current to flow in the media around the cell that one can monitor the impulses , and hence the information flow , by means of a micro-electrode placed close to it . |
| 23 | But within the arts , and indeed within any one discipline or medium , one can distinguish the ‘ scholarly ’ emphasis on textual and historical accuracy from the more interpretative and responsive ‘ readings ’ , which in turn differ from the active , creative mode of ‘ doing ’ the arts . |
| 24 | There are places in which one can sense the numinous , the presence of spiritual forces more easily than others . |
| 25 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 26 | The correspondence of Anselm 's last year is filled with the subject , and no one can mistake the intensity of his feeling on the matter . |
| 27 | No one can underestimate the difficulties implicit in achieving a negotiated settlement . |
| 28 | Labour Members like the idea that one can formulate the blueprint in Brussels and hand it down to be followed in every corner of the Community . |
| 29 | One can vary the time between the pecking and the food being presented . |
| 30 | One can relate the Young 's modulus , E , for a material in bulk to the fine-scale stiffness of its chemical bonds with considerable accuracy . |