Example sentences of "ca n't [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He still ca n't draw any correlation between this project and the BIPS-1 work being done out at DEC 's Western Research Lab ( UX No 394 ) .
2 You ca n't explain that sort of thing to people , though .
3 You ca n't measure any response without something against which to measure it .
4 Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed .
5 ‘ I ca n't hold this door for ever .
6 ‘ To say you ca n't earn any money in the WBO division is rubbish just look at Eubank .
7 I mean , this is why Hollywood you know can make a lot of money out of some pretty horrifying movie , the th the kind of thing I could n't go to see er cos I get the willies , I ca n't bear that kind of thing , but some people enjoy being frightened do n't they ?
8 I ca n't bear that feeling of rats gnawing at my stomach .
9 Sorry , we ca n't extend this offer to readers in the Irish Republic .
10 ‘ Shut yer racket , Jason , or yer ca n't watch that man with the big fat belly on Sumo . ’
11 What makes you think women ca n't do that kind of work ? ’
12 ‘ Surely we ca n't do that distance in a day ? ’
13 ‘ I ca n't do that thing on Saturday ‘ ’ he said apologetically to Tim Reagan , who , having sacrificed one of his staff in the arrangement , was mildly suggesting a reciprocal deal .
14 ‘ I dare say it has , old man , but you ca n't do that sort of thing without asking the others , can you ? ’
15 ‘ You ca n't do that sort of thing and expect the ref not to take strong action . ’
16 Whereas you ca n't do that sort of thing with erm most computer systems .
17 I mean , you ca n't do that sort of thing , surely !
18 because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ?
19 ‘ But you ca n't do any thing about that , can you ?
20 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
21 ‘ Now I am just glad he has been locked up , so he ca n't do this type of thing to anyone again .
22 You ca n't do this sort of thing … ’
23 ’ My leftie grandchildren think I 'm to the right of Genghis Khan , but I really believe that you have to show people you ca n't do this sort of thing and get away with it , ’ she says .
24 You ca n't do this job without a car .
25 The hit sitcom returns today and fans will be stunned by his confession — because the pair ca n't stand each other in the show .
26 She ca n't stand that bit of pressure !
27 I ca n't stand that parody of a happy life in that parody of a place . ’
28 I ca n't stand those kind of places .
29 ‘ I ca n't stand any mower of 'er .
30 But after two or three hours and nil results , you have to accept that the trail is cold and you ca n't justify that level of manpower .
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