Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise |
| 2 | In so doing , tragedy teaches us to contemplate with equanimity , indeed with serene detachment , that which we can not change and should therefore speedily abandon . |
| 3 | It could be that we are fatally drawn to the mysterious : the water is that which we can not fathom , the unfathomable . |
| 4 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
| 5 | In essence the business of this unit is to provide what it sensibly can and to purchase that which it can not provide . |
| 6 | Flexibility is still possible in that there are in any one year at least as many shorter term visitors available which we can not feature on the Grid system . |
| 7 | The mayor asks them to tell him what has been written because there are several which he can not read . |
| 8 | Judges confess in private that there are counsel now practising whom they can not understand . |