Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] one can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 2 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 3 | We have discussed this point because we are about to describe various syndromes of aphasia , and it is important to realise that one can think of each syndrome in the theoretical sense or in the clinical sense . |
| 4 | I like to think that one can make provision to eat almost anywhere in the home , just as one should be able to move small tables about to different parts of the garden It is obviously nice to be able to eat in the kitchen or in the living room . |
| 5 | I also share my hon. Friend 's regret that some people still seem to think that one can teach a national curriculum sensibly without testing children 's progress in an organised fashion . |
| 6 | In general , it is fair to say that one can use a magnification of × 50 for each inch of aperture ( forgive my temporarily reverting to Imperial measure ! ) , so that a 3-inch refractor will bear a magnification of × 150 , a 6-inch will bear × 300 , and so on . |