Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Young people ca n't fail to realise that house prices are cheaper in real terms than at any time since 1970 and interest rates are ridiculously low . |
| 2 | You ca n't help thinking that Emo Philips has been a bit unlucky . |
| 3 | Maybe so , but one ca n't help feeling that Celtic will rarely get a better chance to end Rangers ' unbeaten run of 44 matches . |
| 4 | But I ca n't help feeling that sugar does n't do their teeth any good , and so I would n't recommend feeding them too much of it . |
| 5 | ‘ If you love someone , you care about their safety , and I ca n't help feeling that safety is a foreign word to you … ! ’ |
| 6 | If you cast a shrewd eye around the countryside in March , you can not fail to notice that spring is heralded not only by splashes of yellow celandines and pale primroses in the hedge-banks , but also by gleaming yellow diggers , hastily working their way up the watercourses to use up their allocated budget before the financial year ends on 1 April . |
| 7 | ‘ Art is a rum business ’ , thought Turner , and the attentive reader of a book about artists called Born under Saturn can not avoid thinking that artists are unpredictable while reading through its sections on misers , criminals , celibates , debauchees , suicides , melancholics and eccentrics . |
| 8 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 9 | Leeds , who could not beat Wigan 's 12 men on Saturday , can not have dreamed that Hanley would figure in their pre-match planning . |
| 10 | Humankind can not afford to believe that adjustments to our market-orientated economy will meet and solve the problems . |