Example sentences of "one can [verb] [art] " 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 | I think the question remains or that my doubts remain that there will be a level of there will that one can assume a level of commitments which would be it would be sensible to try and draw back from or phase over a longer period of time . |
| 3 | However , with two divers in the water at the same time , one can aid the other , and there is always the standby diver on the vessel , ready for immediate response . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One can compare the composition of the suspect piece with the range of composition of genuine pieces of comparable period . |
| 6 | That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If as Mr Dalyell alleges , the EEC is about the push for lead-free petrol , one can expect a propaganda barrage more far reaching than Associated Octels recent £100 000 advertising campaign . |
| 9 | It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill . |
| 10 | And if Jesus is consubstantial with God , the Kingdom of Heaven need not be something that will be inaugurated on earth in the immediate future , but something external — another realm , another dimension , in which one can expect a welcome and a reserved place on one 's death . |
| 11 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |
| 12 | For heterosexuals up to 1991 , the peak of HIV infection had yet to be reached and so one can expect a continued rise in the annual incidence of AIDS cases for some time to come . |
| 13 | ( Wells et al , 1990 ) Two options are available — one can select the character combinations based on transitional probabilities between characters or one can specify a vocabulary list and check the character combinations within that list . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The further one can extend the grazing season in spring and autumn , without damage to soil or sward , the better . |
| 18 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Portsmouth is 15 miles to the west and here one can visit the Mary Rose , HMS Warrior and HMS Victory . |
| 21 | Thus , by the end of gastrulation , one can draw a map on the embryo showing the developmental path to which various regions are now committed . |
| 22 | At first sight it is unremarkable ; a simple Formica-clad cube , but as one draws closer it can be seen that the top face is transparent and through it one can view the tracks in the cloud chamber — the long thin lines due to cosmic rays and the short stubby ones due to alpha particles . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One can tap a person to gain attention without being charged with battery : Rawlings v Till ( 1837 ) 150 ER 1042 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In response , it was stated that , while no one can give a 100% guarantee on employment discrimination , the Fair Employment Commission would continue to take up cases where employers were discriminating and would win . |
| 27 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |
| 28 | But London 's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight . |
| 29 | Dualism assumes that one can paraphrase the SENSE of a text , and that there is a valid separation of sense from significance . |
| 30 | Block ( 1980 ) has argued that one can construct a case where one would be forced to say that a conscious individual not only contained , but consisted of , other conscious individuals . |