Example sentences of "one can never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let no one ever be sincere with me — it is a failure of respect , and respect is a thing one can never get enough of . |
| 2 | One can never be defeated if one stands on a matter of morality . ’ |
| 3 | The great constructive developments of this period were missionary ( and one can never draw a hard distinction between internal and external missionizing ) , liturgical , monastic , and political . |
| 4 | But whereas one can at least look underneath the books for evidence of something underneath them , one can never look ‘ outside ’ reality . |
| 5 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 6 | One can never be sure . ’ |
| 7 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 8 | And anyway , I 'm only there for a very small part of the year ; I spend most of my time at school , where there 's twelve beds to a room … dorm … and one can never be alone , it 's not allowed . ’ |
| 9 | This is an excellent method of understanding the contexts of situations and its meaning for those involved , even though one can never truly be a participant observer . |
| 10 | This is a problem which again requires the utmost tact and diplomacy , for one can never be sure of the reaction of a guest on hearing sad news . |
| 11 | Thus I might argue that to know you must be certain , but that one can never be really certain and hence one can never really know . |
| 12 | Thus I might argue that to know you must be certain , but that one can never be really certain and hence one can never really know . |
| 13 | Within the Lakatos account , then , one can never make the unqualified claim that one research programme is ‘ better ’ than a rival . |
| 14 | Included in it is what is called the uncertainty principle , which states that one can never precisely measure the position and the velocity of a particle at the same time ; the more accurately you can measure one , the less accurately you can measure the other . |
| 15 | One can never quite believe what one sees . |
| 16 | ‘ One can never be entirely sure of anything in this world , can we , Theo ? ’ |
| 17 | One can never be sure , but I do n't think so . |
| 18 | It is not felt that the danger is a real one because one can never control the discretion of trustees . |
| 19 | Light , in combination with landscape , is Braham 's main metaphor , and he has commented : ‘ Traditional metaphors are so ingrained in all of us that one can never quite escape the suggestion that light represents good , darkness represents bad . |