Example sentences of "can [not/n't] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , trust presupposes a conscious and reasoned decision by the patient which , in fact , may be beyond many patients who , through pain , the effect of drugs , or unconsciousness , can not make such decisions . |
| 2 | I can not make such a promise . |
| 3 | Why , even the executives — clever men , ambitious men , men with briefcases full of management accounts and demographics — can not make such a promise . |
| 4 | As we approach the year 2000 , with an increasingly complex system of higher education , with more students , more kinds of institutions and more kinds of courses , we can not make such assumptions . |
| 5 | A local authority can not apply for a residence or contact order and the court can not make such an order in its favour ( s9(2) ) . |
| 6 | He can not make such a commitment . |
| 7 | If we can not make any sensible estimates as to the existence of intelligence on other worlds , at least we can look at non-human intelligences back here on Earth . |
| 8 | R. F. V. Heuston has argued that it should , saying that it can not make any difference whether the rules which identify the procedure come from common law , statute or a combination of both . |
| 9 | I can not make any such commitment at this stage . |
| 10 | Holders have no voting rights and can not make any contribution to the management of the corporation except in extremis when they can force liquidation if their contractual income has not been paid . |
| 11 | That we can not make those leaps of vision so because we are bound to a cultural view which denies their possibility . ’ |
| 12 | Time and financial constraints , as well as a recent rapid increase in student numbers ( 90 in 1991 , 125 in 1992 ) , mean that we can not make this as wide-ranging as we would like . |
| 13 | If you can not make this , do n't worry , as it will be repeated all over the country on a weekly basis . |