Example sentences of "can [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the real estate of the deceased , it is settled by the end of the thirteenth century that he can make no will , except where there is a local custom to that effect . |
| 2 | I can make no better compliment to Karajan , the Vienna State Opera Orchestra , and the singers than to say that all these intrinsic qualities of the work , not generally understood , were brought home . |
| 3 | The first category is made up of those who can make no sense whatever of any God-talk . |
| 4 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 5 | In summary , we can make no general statement on the relation of tissue damage to pain in conscious , sensible adult humans . |
| 6 | Without the will for self-examination and the desire to change ourselves , we can make no progress ; we remain stuck in our types , experiencing only what that type allows and learning nothing new about ourselves or life . |
| 7 | ‘ I should , of course , be most interested in reading the finished script , though — ’ he gave a little wry smile — ‘ I can make no promises . ’ |
| 8 | As a framework it can make no claim to be exhaustive or final . |
| 9 | The denial of naturalism carries with it the recognition of the possibility of an epistemology which is prior to all of the special sciences , and which can make no use of general or particular facts about nature . |
| 10 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
| 11 | Philosophy can make no relevant criticism of these modes ; philosophy is , for example , an escape from practical living , a refuge from life . |
| 12 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 13 | In the first place , he can make no common assumptions about motivation , previous knowledge and IQ : his students will be very various , even in a selective school . |
| 14 | One might attempt to reject that entire discussion on the grounds that whether we have free will or not can make no difference to the way we live our lives . |
| 15 | Voters turn out in large numbers in safe seats where their individual support or opposition to the sitting candidate can make no difference whatsoever to the result . |
| 16 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 17 | I can make no waves ) , I would remain faithful to Irene . |
| 18 | Who has no milk can make no cheese — |
| 19 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 20 | We can make no general claim for ‘ superiority ’ of either type of tax with regard to work incentives . |
| 21 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | But it also follows from that that the panel here can make no assumption other then the greenbelt is as in the deposited plan . |
| 23 | We now know the outcome of the second quarter ignoring today and tomorrow which can bring , can make no major change in the scale of what we face . |
| 24 | ‘ BAII has no knowledge of the circumstances leading to his arrest , and accordingly can make no comments , other than to state that nothing in the course of his employment has given rise to any question . ’ |
| 25 | We certainly can make no statements about economic welfare unless we first convert national income into real national income per capita . |
| 26 | We can build no premise without it . |
| 27 | Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more . |
| 28 | At about 25 per cent moisture content however these hydroxyls become saturated and the cell walls can absorb no more water ; this is known as the ‘ fibre saturation point ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I can promise no applause . ’ |
| 30 | A year ago , it was the miners who went on strike , today it 's the farmers who can wait no more . |