Example sentences of "[noun pl] can not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , available prolonged oesophageal manometric recordings can not differentiate between deglutitive and non-deglutitive motor activity and they are unable to distinguish multiple pressure peaks induced by a single deglutition from a pressure complex induced by repetitive swallowing , or to separate dry swallows from wet or solid swallows . |
| 2 | This means that well over 50% of at risk subjects can not benefit from this technology at present . |
| 3 | Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations , many of them lethal , as a result of which the flies can not survive at all . |
| 4 | Many water plants can not survive in acidified pools or streams , and dippers and otters are less likely to be found there . |
| 5 | That is a good cheap way to sell PCs , but many dealers can not cope with bigger , more complex machines . |
| 6 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 9 | Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount . |
| 10 | It follows that fictional things can not function as genuine subjects of predication , and in the strict sense can not be 'talked about' at all . |
| 11 | Atrophied muscles can not cope with artificial legs , so patients first have to strengthen them with ‘ stump wrestling ’ competitions . |
| 12 | As they drive around the countryside the newcomers can not distinguish between those fields which have been ploughed with a supreme exhibition of the farm worker 's skills and those which have not ; nor are they able to appreciate the beauty of a faultlessly drilled seed-bed , healthy stock or clean weed-free fields . |
| 13 | Users can not switch to other suppliers while a contract is in place , even if the service turns out to be too expensive or otherwise unsatisfactory . |
| 14 | Prices can not remain at this level for long , but potential buyers can be assured that their money will be safer in one of these than in almost any other car . |
| 15 | Boys and girls can not consent to indecent assault , no matter how willing they are : McCormack [ 1969 ] 2 QB 442 . |
| 16 | Similarly , UK recyclers can not compete against subsidized imports of waste German paper and board , the government alleges . |
| 17 | Currently , individual LIFESPAN processes can not communicate at all . |
| 18 | Many sales were admittedly quite modest and overall results can not compare with those of the glory days of 1989 , but nobody was complaining . |
| 19 | Ministers can not disagree with each other and , therefore , they never do so . |
| 20 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 21 | Bell said : ‘ Clubs can not cope with these increases . |
| 22 | Independents can not figure on any list . |
| 23 | New weapons programmes can not proceed without Congressional authorization . |
| 24 | Likewise , the presidents of at least some of the successor republics can not rely on firm support from their assemblies on all issues . |