Example sentences of "one can [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that one can not give a general rule . |
| 2 | In direct criticism of Wolfenden , he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality . |
| 3 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 4 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
| 5 | Most patients with effortful , poorly articulated speech will have ungrammatical speech output with good speech comprehension , but not all — any two of these symptoms can exist without the third , so one can not offer a single theory accounting for all three symptoms at once . |
| 6 | ‘ Ravvolse il volo ’ can be dated between 1630 and 1636 by a textual reference , and the famous ‘ Ferito un cavaliero ’ , a lament for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden , is almost certainly a late work composed in 1655 in anticipation of the visit to Rome of Gustavus 's daughter , Christina , a recent Catholic convert ; one can not imagine a Roman composer celebrating the Protestant hero at any earlier date . |
| 7 | One can not have a single quark on its own because it would have a color ( red , green , or blue ) . |
| 8 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |