Example sentences of "one can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose one can not end without mentioning the church ghost . |
| 2 | Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class . |
| 3 | ‘ But one can not rule one 's whole life by what one 's father thinks , ’ supplied Felicity with considerable feeling . |
| 4 | However , one can not rule out the possibility that certain other new parties may appear . |
| 5 | One can not repeat too often that good scoring is the result of intelligent listening , and the student is strongly advised to cultivate his orchestral ear by following with the score . |
| 6 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 7 | One can not negotiate where an agency has clear rules , for example about the necessity for undertaking a financial assessment for an old person being admitted to local authority residential care . |
| 8 | But gradually , as I noted in Chapter One , he came to think that one can not universalise judgements coherently , without this amounting to the development of a universal sympathy with the desires of all affected by one 's action . |
| 9 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 10 | It is clear that one can not give a general rule . |
| 11 | I think that without these basic reactions art could not exist , but one can not explain art wholly in terms of these reactions ; one must also take account of our self-denials . |
| 12 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 13 | In the second case , a syndrome is a set of symptoms which frequently ( but not necessarily invariably ) co-occur ; if there are occasional instances ( no matter how rare ) where some of the symptoms are present and others absent , then one can not explain the syndrome as due to a single underlying defect generating all the symptoms . |
| 14 | It is clear that in reading a novel one can not influence its development ( that can be the pleasure or pain of reading ) , but it is almost equally hard for a criminal to influence the direction of a trial , or for a primary school pupil to prevent the lesson progressing as the teacher intends . |
| 15 | Experimentally one can not set up just this configuration because of the difficulty in imposing constant concentration boundary conditions ( Section 14.3 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ One can not hide the exact value of a book token , and therefore in recession we are somewhat disadvantaged . ’ |
| 17 | As I said earlier , one can not switch off the tap and ban tobacco . |
| 18 | However , in the case of particles emitted from a black hole , the fact that one can not observe what is going on inside the black hole means that one can definitely predict neither the positions nor the velocities of the emitted particles . |
| 19 | If one can not feel accurately what the scope and limits of one 's own responsibility are , there is an increased chance of behaving either fatalistically or recklessly . |
| 20 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 21 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 22 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 23 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 24 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 25 | Clearly one can not hope to give a comprehensive survey of the history of metals and metalworking in a single chapter . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 27 | On June 20 Yegor Ligachev , the most prominent conservative in the most senior CPSU ranks , accused Gorbachev of making crucial political and economic decisions without consulting the party , and hinted that Gorbachev should resign , commenting : " One can not head the party , this leading force , without dedicating one 's time to it . " |
| 28 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 29 | What one can not demand but from oneself . |
| 30 | However , one can not conclude that the committees have a sufficiently important role either : |