Example sentences of "[adj] [that] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recent historical work on the rural economy has involved studies in depth of particular regions or even individual manors , and despite the patchiness of the surviving evidence it is clear that one can not draw hard and fast lines of distinction between regions of arable farming and those of stock-rearing . |
| 2 | It is clear that one can not give a general rule . |
| 3 | It is clear that one can not own confidential information in the sense that one can own a car . |
| 4 | Given that Britain ( like many other countries ) is now recognisably a multi-faith society , it should be clear that we can not conduct this enquiry from within the terms of Christianity alone . |
| 5 | Try as he might it is clear that he can not make the economic figures add up , creative accounting or not , in a way which will make the parliamentary Tory Party arithmetic secure . |
| 6 | It is clear that he can not object solely on the ground of the freedom of the individual or because that particular doctor usually examines for insurance companies . |
| 7 | We are not given access to her private emotional struggles , but we are clear that she can not reject social values . |
| 8 | J said : " The cases are quite clear that you can not make a valuer an arbitrator by calling him so or vice versa " . |
| 9 | The water in which river dolphins live is so muddy that they can not see anything . |
| 10 | So high that I can not hear them speak . |
| 11 | In response to R C Sneddon 's letter today , I am afraid that I can not offer any foolproof plan for economic recovery . |
| 12 | I am afraid that I can not agree with you that all rivers should simply be recognized as public rights of way , attractive though that might appear . |
| 13 | I am afraid that I can not accept the reasoning which has led subsequent Divisional Courts to limit the ambit of that decision : Benson 's case , the Divisional Court in the present case , and Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Walsh , The Times , 18 December 1991 . |
| 14 | ‘ I am afraid that I can not venture an opinion as to the length of the weapon , until my examination , ’ he said , withdrawing the probe and wiping it on his apron . |
| 15 | I shall certainly convey the sentiments , but I am afraid that I can not promise my hon. Friend an early debate . |
| 16 | But not too old that I can not make sure that you never forget . |
| 17 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 18 | She argues that the nature of the Tests is now so different that we can not object on the same grounds as each objection has been met . |
| 19 | In order to read the story they must find it interesting or useful , and it must not be so detailed and technical that they can not understand it . |
| 20 | And he is not yet so low that he can not bring down many a better man . |
| 21 | It is all right to tell a whopper on an answering machine ( ‘ We 're sorry that we can not answer your call right now ’ is either a lie or a statement of the obvious ) , but no one will forgive you for not ‘ getting back ’ to him later . |
| 22 | We are sorry that we can not prove a cause and effect conclusively , but suspect that the hemiparesis could be a reaction related to sumatriptan and suggest that intra-cerebral binding sites of sumatriptan should perhaps be studied more closely . |
| 23 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 24 | I can imagine him so very clearly , from his photographs , his words , but I do not remember him myself — I should have , I was two years old — it 's strange that I can not remember seeing him bending over my cot , as they say he did , glass of brandy-and-soda in hand . |
| 25 | ‘ She may be articulate but feel upset that she can not do justice to herself . |
| 26 | Are we so insular that we can not learn from others ? |
| 27 | He therefore sees no point in trying to enforce statutory instructions that are so unclear that any reliance on them would be speculative , so vague that they can not aid coordination in any case . |
| 28 | Lieutenant John Tenwolde , who is leading the investigation in the US , said : ‘ The allegations surrounding the Spiros are so serious that we can not discount them . |
| 29 | When we are young , the thought of death , whether our own or someone else 's , is so appalling that we can not face it . |
| 30 | Since the construction of these tests is on scientific principles , then everyone will accept , as some law of nature , that large numbers of children and adults are failed and excluded , and thus convinced that they can not learn anything valued by the education system . |