Example sentences of "[noun sg] can not [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummy ca n't do chain stitch . ’ |
| 2 | Er , the present situation is that there 's complex erm , arrangements for the exercise of votes , basically unanimity is required and in those circumstances we as a shareholder can not exercise material influence which is a necessary pre-condition for equity accounting . |
| 3 | Experts explain that exercise can not cause heart disease or a tendency to accumulate cholesterol , both of which are genetically determined characteristics and can not be ‘ brought on ’ by external factors . |
| 4 | To borrow the economic analogy , competition is meaningless , or at any rate can not create consumer sovereignty , unless there is some product differentiation . |
| 5 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 6 | And your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper for her pussy , so when she slides down the banister and says like blurgh , la blah la blah loo ! |
| 7 | The cost of any scheme would be very large and I should make clear now that the Government can not contemplate funding expenditure on this scale from public funds . |
| 8 | The model can not explain N/R asymmetry nor the dominance of one half of the great circle over the other . |
| 9 | The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ . |
| 10 | A dissenting member can not claim material breach of the constitutive treaty by the organisation , since the organisation is not a party to the treaty , although it can make such a claim against other member States . |
| 11 | The Ombudsman can not rescind planning permission but can insist that the council gives an apology , and possibly a small amount of compensation . |
| 12 | The Euro Parliament can not make community law , it can only recommend . |