Example sentences of "[pron] can not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 2 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 3 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 4 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 5 | You can not not react to Dorothy Heathcote . |
| 6 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’ |
| 8 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 9 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 10 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 11 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 12 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 13 | Now it might be argued as was done by Kant , for example — that the idea of a non-arbitrary , objective , order is built into the very concept of an external object ; that one can not significantly refer to external objects qua external without acknowledging by implication the existence of such an order ; and in a sense this is of course true . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 15 | The likes of us we 've got a man behind us , but the likes of them I feel sorry for , they can not actually afford to be sick and that 's it . |
| 16 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |
| 17 | It can not then go to the carer no matter how long the care has lasted . |
| 18 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 19 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 20 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 21 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |