Example sentences of "[coord] can [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form includes a declaration to be completed according to whether a survivor of the buyers can or can not give a valid receipt for purchase monies . |
| 2 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 3 | ‘ King he is not and can not be , for King Richard was well alive when this man took the crown , and an abdication under duress is no valid abdication and can not confer a valid right . |
| 4 | Because here you have an opportunity to go launch yourself onto a self employed erm platform and can not provide a better platform for that and I would say that would n't I he 's thinking . |
| 5 | Beejay suspects that I have spotted an alternative to misbehave over and can not resist a sideways look . |
| 6 | But these statistics grossly misrepresent the reality : the poor terrain of the hills is already fully utilized and can not support a larger population . |
| 7 | It is very useful for a few enquiries but can not handle a large number , as a series of storage device movements is involved in each search . |
| 8 | Maximal stimulation overcomes these criticisms but can not show a stimulatory effect and may well swamp any inhibitory effect of smoking . |
| 9 | For example : Priority date 1st August 1988 Infringement commenced 1st July 1989 Infringement ceased 1st January 1991 Patent formally granted 1st February 1992 The patent owner will be entitled to damages based on the period of infringement ( 1st July 1989 to 1st January 1991 ) but can not bring a legal action for damages against the infringer until after 1st February 1986 . |
| 10 | but can not sustain a courtly approach with the articulacy of Wilekin : line 23 , quoted here , could easily come from a prayer to the Virgin Mary , and the clerk soon concludes by a sacrilegious plea in Marian terms : ( " For the love of the mother of heaven , change your mind and hear my plea ! " ) |