Example sentences of "can not [verb] [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 2 | ‘ Since you ask me sir I ca n't think of a single reason — oh except … my voice is trained . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Offhand , I ca n't think of a single good reason why I should tell you anything that passed between us , Mr Barnett . ’ |
| 4 | For this reason , although Iveco runs a fully integrated European operation , the group can not trade as a single company with a single board of directors . |
| 5 | Among grasses , I can not think of a single one that is not lovely . |
| 6 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 7 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |