Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not have bad children in my school , ’ said Mr Phillips firmly . |
| 2 | Her doctor says she can not have another operation as it would kill her . |
| 3 | This was Hassan Howa , guiding spirit for so many years of the non-racial South African Cricket Board of Control , who had first articulated the verdict on gradual reform : ‘ You can not have normal sport in an abnormal society . ’ |
| 4 | A common reply to this is that you can not have social control without crime or deviance and hence , if social control is necessary , then crime and deviance must be , too . |
| 5 | ‘ You can not have world-class targets for training , with a third-world budget , ’ says one . |
| 6 | The reflex protects the very sensitive area at the bottom of the skull and , because it works by reflex , we can not have conscious control over it . |
| 7 | No we can not have another guinea pig , who do you think has to look after all these animals when you get tired of them … |
| 8 | For clearly , they can not have non-restrictive relative counterparts.3 But what makes us so sure that it is an example of apposition ? |
| 9 | If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it . |
| 10 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 11 | It can not have half-taken place . |
| 12 | Ironically Langbaurgh council , whose residents have the highest incidence of asthma in Cleveland , has been told it can not have special funding to contribute to the project . |