Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that one can not give a general rule . |
| 2 | ‘ One can not hide the exact value of a book token , and therefore in recession we are somewhat disadvantaged . ’ |
| 3 | In direct criticism of Wolfenden , he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality . |
| 4 | But one can not guess the political colour of the speaker . |
| 5 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 6 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
| 7 | In any case , it is permissable to observe that one can not regard the same problem as occuring here . |
| 8 | Most patients with effortful , poorly articulated speech will have ungrammatical speech output with good speech comprehension , but not all — any two of these symptoms can exist without the third , so one can not offer a single theory accounting for all three symptoms at once . |
| 9 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 10 | ( This , in passing , shows that one can not reduce the potential meaning of to the notions " future " , " potential " , " unrealized " or " hypothetical " . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Ravvolse il volo ’ can be dated between 1630 and 1636 by a textual reference , and the famous ‘ Ferito un cavaliero ’ , a lament for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden , is almost certainly a late work composed in 1655 in anticipation of the visit to Rome of Gustavus 's daughter , Christina , a recent Catholic convert ; one can not imagine a Roman composer celebrating the Protestant hero at any earlier date . |
| 12 | One can not say the same for those films which make specific connections between earlier events in British history and now . |
| 13 | One can then say that the mean velocity gradient depends only on u τ and y , although one can not say the same for U because it is separated from its origin by a region in which v is important . |
| 14 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani on the same day dismissed the reports as " mendacious propaganda and blackmail " , saying : " We must make America understand that today one can not use the deceitful weapon of disarmament to threaten other countries and to interfere in their affairs . " |
| 15 | One can not use the fundamental laws to deduce human behavior , for the reasons I have explained . |
| 16 | So it is not possible to test Goody 's hypothesis since one can not find an isolated society on which to test the cognitive and other consequences of ‘ purely ’ oral communication . |
| 17 | One can not have a single quark on its own because it would have a color ( red , green , or blue ) . |
| 18 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 19 | Obviously , one can not add the two figures of 0.67 per cent and 0.58 per cent to arrive at the total contribution of education , since there is an overlap between the two , i.e. advances in knowledge must have affected advances in the education of the labour force and vice versa . |
| 20 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 21 | From the Durbin-Watson statistic which Barro reports one can not reject the null hypothesis ( although , strictly speaking , the Durbin-Watson test is not applicable because of the presence of the lagged dependent variable ) . |