Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 2 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 3 | I can not devote a whole book to the subject , so my descriptions of the numerous cheeses available will be rather brief . |
| 4 | I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available . |
| 5 | I can not give a precise date , but that is the intention . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not wave a magic wand and change the season around . |
| 7 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 8 | I can not see a decent replacement . |
| 9 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 10 | I can not remember a single one where the risks which gave rise to the accident could not have been measured and prevented with effective safety training , management commitment and — above all - sufficient funds . |
| 11 | I can not imagine a worse , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I can not imagine a worse torture than not knowing how long your pension will be paid , ’ Mr Trench told a London news conference before they marched to Parliament to lobby their MPs . |
| 13 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 14 | I can not imagine a happier place from which to be taken unto Him . ’ |
| 15 | Because I can not find a fucking man . |
| 16 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
| 17 | But I can not recall a single act which could be so easily determined . |
| 18 | I can not recall a single one making any objection — except , of course , that great , noble figure , the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) , and even he did not object to the poll tax in Scotland . |
| 19 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 20 | Psyche , so lovely that she can not find a mortal husband , is condemned to be the bride of Death . |
| 21 | Her memory is extremely poor and she can not sustain a normal conversation . |
| 22 | They have repeatedly cut benefits for the disabled by abolishing industrial injury benefit , by abolishing disablement benefit for seven out of eight disabled people and by abolishing the reduced earnings allowance for disabled people who can not earn a full wage . |
| 23 | An innkeeper is not bound to supply with reasonable refreshment or to accommodate , any person who can not pay a reasonable sum for these services . |
| 24 | Some films have to be shot on location : you can not create a moving ‘ face ’ out of several thousand people for a British Airways commercial in any other way . |
| 25 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 26 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 27 | If you can not reach a consensual agreement concerning the status of rights of both the majority and the minority population , then you must reckon with a strong possibility or war . |
| 28 | It may help to remember that you can not build a towering future on inadequate foundations and that the deeper you sink into experience , the higher you can soar . |
| 29 | You can not build a fair system on that stinking swamp of menace and malice and neglect . |
| 30 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |