Example sentences of "one can [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 2 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 3 | One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period . |
| 4 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 5 | A limitation is placed upon the accuracy with which one can specify the amount of energy transferred together with a knowledge of the time at which the transfer took place . |
| 6 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 7 | One can create order out of disorder ( for example , one can paint the house ) , but that requires expenditure of effort or energy and so decreases the amount of ordered energy available . |
| 8 | One can visit the town of Kartuzy , the centre of Kashubian folklore , and the picturesque Wdydze Kiszewskie with its fascinating open air museum established at the beginning of the century . |
| 9 | Gohlke has written thoughtfully about the way in which photographs can appear to embrace features of the past , the present and the future : " Projecting oneself into the future so that one can view the present with more apparent dispassion , and projecting an image of the past onto the future in order to take the measure of the present are different strategies . |
| 10 | One can represent the subject " Surgery of the stomach " by combining these symbols , and Ranganathan 's scheme provides , a " preferred order " by which such combinations are to be made ( its explanation would take up many pages and the reader is therefore referred to basic textbooks on library classification , including Needham 's already cited , if he is intrigued to know ) ; the result is L24:4:7 . |
| 11 | Dualism assumes that one can paraphrase the SENSE of a text , and that there is a valid separation of sense from significance . |
| 12 | Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ . |
| 13 | During an eclipse , however , when most of the sun 's light is blocked off by the moon , one can observe the light from those stars . |
| 14 | One can abandon the view that we have any infallible beliefs and find other ways of supposing that some beliefs are non-inferentially justified . |
| 15 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 16 | The correspondence of Anselm 's last year is filled with the subject , and no one can mistake the intensity of his feeling on the matter . |
| 17 | Labour Members like the idea that one can formulate the blueprint in Brussels and hand it down to be followed in every corner of the Community . |
| 18 | One can vary the time between the pecking and the food being presented . |
| 19 | Gone up to their their room to pick up some their toys I would n't know how to , but the older one can open the gate ! |
| 20 | Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ One can change the shape of the face by wearing cheek pads in the mouth and all that sort of thing , but I do n't think it 's necessary for you . |
| 22 | One can identify the bulk , calculate the total loss and make the buyer bear a proportion according to his share of the bulk . |
| 23 | Against this , it is arguable that one can feel the sense of waiting and subsequent satisfaction only when there is some expected framework , and the framework for language has no obvious parallels with non-linguistic ones ; so we do have one autonomous characteristic of language , even if all the others — equation of two elements , instantiation of one element by another , and so on — are part of the much more general perceptual and conceptual apparatus of human beings . |
| 24 | One can feel the painter , at first with gestures that are almost childish , and later like a strong , fully grown man , emptying his body of energy and liquids so as to leave traces to prove that he had physically existed . |
| 25 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 26 | The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time ; one can detect the rhythm of a heart-beat , of a flashing light or of a piece of music . |
| 27 | ‘ No one can explain the feeling , apart from the fans of Third Lanark . ’ |
| 28 | One of you , one of you can lick the spoon and one can lick the bowl , plate |
| 29 | A destructive hypersimulation , a destructive hyperconformity … that has all the appearance of a victorious challenge — no one can measure the strength of this challenge … |
| 30 | No one can control the protestant 's education or the books which he shall read . |