Example sentences of "one can [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not stop it if I wished , ; no one can stop it . |
| 2 | then you 're not gon na stop it , I mean if there 's class struggle no one can stop it . |
| 3 | First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias . |
| 4 | Again , after that first superficial cut , I do n't think one can rule it out . |
| 5 | In later years , offered the objection that celibacy is not always possible , Lewis the radio evangelist was to be quite unambiguous : ‘ faced with an optional question in an examination paper , one considers whether one can do it or not ; faced with a compulsory question , one must do the best one can … |
| 6 | ( 1b ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state one can make it pass through all three physical states . |
| 7 | and no one can break it now , just get the hell |
| 8 | After all , since our last meeting , if one can call it a meeting , at the entrance to the sweet little National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh , all those years ago , you have cut yourself off from your friends and well-wishers . |
| 9 | There was a house , if one can call it that , on the left of the close . |
| 10 | The north-east of England and the lowlands of Scotland are also ethnically similar , if one can put it that way . |
| 11 | I think the fact that erm only twelve per cent of perceived sexual harassment cases come from tutors is n't to make that a minor problem , because the impact that sexual harassment , coming from tutors , institutional actors as it were , can have on students is phenomenal and you know one ca n't get too tied up in terms of the amount or the quantity of sexual harassment , I think one has to consider the quality of sexual harassment as well if one can put it that way , and it 's by no means a minor problem . |
| 12 | I 've got it rigged so no one can find it but me , as I do n't want people being able to walk in here after dark and turn the lights on . |
| 13 | One can find it difficult to discuss a patient 's complaint when society 's puritanical view of the anorectal and urogenital region is so strong . |
| 14 | Now 20 , Brooklyn-born Lisa B — she would use ‘ Barbuscia ’ , but says no one can pronounce it — has three successful years of modelling behind her and is venturing into the world of music . |
| 15 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |
| 16 | One can see it by the numbers of new business start-ups ; also by the number of failures which does show there is some healthy risk-taking . |
| 17 | If the Citizen 's Charter Unit really is the Ministry of Majorism , one can see it fading away gently . |
| 18 | Although this principle of comparative costs is applied mainly in connection with international trade , one can see it in operation in all forms of production . |
| 19 | Every , yeah , well one can have it every two year , er |
| 20 | One can share it and yet recognise that there is justification for contemporary views that work in mines and manufacture had a yet greater effect on health and longevity . |
| 21 | If constitutional independence is what sovereignty is , I do not know how one can reduce it by pooling it . |
| 22 | If one can learn it . ’ |
| 23 | Interpretation of the passage is thereby facilitated and one can use it selectively to pick up additional information to extend the schema — that the reaction referred to is known as saponification , for example . |
| 24 | A jeer in her voice , she said , ‘ No one can deny it has a ring to it . ’ |
| 25 | But no one can read it . |
| 26 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 27 | But no one can prove it . ’ |
| 28 | No-one can prove it works and no one can prove it ca n't . |
| 29 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 30 | ‘ So far as one can understand it , ’ says Freddie . |