Example sentences of "ca [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The police only enforce the law , they ca n't make the law work , the people who make the law work are the judiciary . |
| 32 | I ca n't make the East Mainland very well . |
| 33 | The Trooper 's wishbone and torsion-bar front suspension , and live rear axle on cart springs , ca n't match the coil spring combinations of the rivals but , that said , it 's still a good compromise . |
| 34 | But , if they ca n't break the star system , if it is impossible for a band of this stature to remain an ‘ ordinary existence ’ ( although it must be stated that New Order deliberately unglamourise their existence , wisely slowing down their schedules and viciously guarding their faceless media presence . |
| 35 | But she ca n't bless the communion wine and wafers because only a priest can do that and at present women ca n't be ordained as priests . |
| 36 | She knows I ca n't refuse a spirit wife , and on balance she prefers that I fuck Avavnuk rather than have affairs with ordinary women . |
| 37 | You ca n't turn the plane to any degree , you ca n't chase an enemy Afterburner -style , and there are n't even token attempts at flight simulation — you ca n't even crash the damned thing , however hard you try ! |
| 38 | You ca n't , you ca n't put a waste pipe that . |
| 39 | I know that we 're meeting with the company next week , but whether or not anything 's come forward on that and also erm in reference to the pensions section , erm , just correct your deliberate mistake and part timers ca n't enter the Securicor Pension Scheme . |
| 40 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 41 | I ca n't stick a tape machine on my desk and leave it running . |
| 42 | ‘ Barry , I ca n't see a goshdarn thing . ’ |
| 43 | I ca n't see the education committee with their lack of money paying for transport for children from here |
| 44 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |
| 45 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 46 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 47 | Like you said you ca n't see the body language and fobbed off . |
| 48 | One or two people who 'll be sleeping rough if they ca n't beg the room rate . |
| 49 | Graham said : ‘ I ca n't pick the England team , but Ian would always be in my side . ’ |
| 50 | " I ca n't remember the telephone number here yet ; Slater 's got it . |
| 51 | He sat by the door , and I knitted , knitted , knitted — I ca n't remember the letter word for word , but it was something like this : Dear Fred ( that 's the name she calls me by , he said , she does n't like Ferdinand — red with embarrassment ) . |
| 52 | I ca n't remember the telly programme he was in something like Budgie it was n't Budgie though . |
| 53 | Taylor acknowledged : ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having such an impact on a team . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said . |
| 55 | It ca n't become a pop show , it has to stay the way it is . |
| 56 | In view of the fact that we ca n't proceed with the move of Plant Records room until this work is carried out , and more importantly , Jim Mayes ca n't access the stock control package within SunAccounts , could you please look into the financial aspects . |
| 57 | If you want to grow tomatoes but ca n't keep a greenhouse standing , you find something equally useful . |
| 58 | But even London Transport ca n't keep every train north of the river for ever — eventually they have to let one across . |
| 59 | plays music , I ca n't hear an alarm clock . |
| 60 | And you ca n't develop a prototype system because the users have n't got a clue what they want . |