Example sentences of "one can [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One ca n't believe that players such as Colin Stephens , Aled Williams or Adrian Davies would not do a better job in the No10 jersey and it seems a far cry from the days when the Welsh stand off factory was in full production . |
| 2 | One can reasonably say that Balboa 's triumph ultimately gave us San Diego and Los Angeles , Santa Barbara and Yerba Buena , San Ysidro and San Onofre , San Clemente and San Francisco . |
| 3 | One can also add that St Paul , who plumbs the depths of desolation but also knows the heights of consolation and joy , provided Montini with a practical spirituality that kept him going throughout his long ‘ hidden life ’ in the Secretariat of State ( 1925–54 ) , his pastoral ministry in Milan ( 1955–63 ) and finally , his Petrine ministry . |
| 4 | So one can well imagine that Grimes blew into Sadler 's Wells like an Aldeburgh gale , changing the coastline , breaking down bridges , and generally modifying the landscape by its sheer force and energy . |
| 5 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 6 | The old-fashioned objected that it was dangerous to eyesight , and that those who read by candlelight did not need spectacles , but one can not imagine that Jane Austen was among them . |
| 7 | One can only assume that Clinton means well . |
| 8 | One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title . |
| 9 | One can only hope that Charles Titford had chosen a wife for her lasting qualities , and was not ‘ seduced and betrayed ’ by a daub of lipstick and a set of false teeth ; his marriage lasted — as , in a sense , marriages had to — and it bore fruit . |
| 10 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 11 | The sociologist would also suggest that these patterned regularities in social life mean that social behaviour is predictable , i.e. that one can safely say that individuals in similar social situations will behave similarly . |