Example sentences of "[adv] can not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , market researcher Andy Ryman says : ‘ The name of any new development obviously can not clash with any other competitor developments in the area . |
| 2 | Cantril died in 1969 and so can not comment on this phenomenon . |
| 3 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 4 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 5 | Clearly it can not be the case that and that if 4 is non-zero , and so condition ( iii ) above can not hold in both environments . |
| 6 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 7 | My officers just can not deal with these late proofs in days . |
| 8 | I just can not work with this man . ’ |
| 9 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 10 | I honestly can not think of one good thing which Labour proposes to do . |
| 11 | These also can not occur in postnominal attributive position ; we have cited the unacceptability of postnominal sheer in ( 34 ) , and of course ( 39 ) is equally unsatisfactory : ( 39 ) a team-manager former was brought out of retirement We can also observe that , for the same reason , qualifying nouns , which do not instantiate a property of the head noun , are excluded as a class from postnominal position except , again , for phrases borrowed from French , such as Tournedos Rossini . |
| 12 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 13 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 14 | He really can not act at all . |
| 15 | Whatever form it takes , however , such conspicuous consumption — ; and hence the allocation of status — depends upon income and farm workers , on low wages , simply can not compete in this league . |
| 16 | ‘ Secondly , timing is crucial and is something that you simply can not work on alone . |
| 17 | Development costs must be reduced — we simply can not proceed with marginal projects , and must select the projects which offer the greatest return . |
| 18 | ‘ You surely can not hope for better ? ’ |