Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk .
2 Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion .
3 Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere .
4 For example , the simplest desk-top computer functions through ‘ perceiving ’ shifting patterns of electrons , something which we can not do because we are not aware of electrons in everyday life .
5 The resurrection , for people who believe it to have taken place , is presumably an objective fact of history ; one which they can not circumvent even if they would .
6 In a sermon of August 1710 , Dr South accused the separatists and Dissenters of being " the Pope 's journeymen " who " carry on his work " and " do that for him which he can not do for himself …
7 One of the important jobs of a Leader of the House is to report to the Cabinet and tell it what it can not do .
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