Example sentences of "[noun] can not [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all . |
| 2 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 3 | First commissions could be obtained through political interest , and this would appear to have been the situation of Philip Hay , whom Admiral Lord Keith managed to place in the 11th Foot as an ensign on the strength of imaginary past service , though his patron remarked that ‘ if his father can not get at old General Grant or Lady Sutherland he may not be confirmed . |
| 4 | Prices can not remain at this level for long , but potential buyers can be assured that their money will be safer in one of these than in almost any other car . |
| 5 | Currently , individual LIFESPAN processes can not communicate at all . |
| 6 | There are numbers of rooms that an individual can not enter at all , or only at certain times , for reasons of status , sex , or even age . |
| 7 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 8 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 9 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |