Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |
| 2 | You ca n't answer for the other officers but you can answer for yourself . |
| 3 | get away from here , I ca n't see for the flaming |
| 4 | If you ca n't wait for a new model , the Black & Decker Woodworker is ideal for the beginner , or for those wanting a second router for lots of small repetitive tasks . |
| 5 | An absolute winner — I ca n't wait for the new items in the series . |
| 6 | Somebody Who Ca n't Wait For The New Morrissey Record , Milan |
| 7 | I ca n't wait for the mini series . |
| 8 | I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me . |
| 9 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
| 10 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
| 11 | They must learn what every child knows that you ca n't ask for a present back . |
| 12 | You ca n't ask for a specific taxi company or |
| 13 | And although it is much better now than it was on Thursday morning , I know I ca n't train for the next three days . |
| 14 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 15 | Now Rebecca 's family can only hope for a suitable kidney from an accident victim . |
| 16 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 17 | ‘ I can not speak for the other 33 countries who are not here , but as for me , I would say if this happened in 1990 it would be good , ’ he added . |
| 18 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 19 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 21 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 22 | The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses . |
| 23 | We can not wait for a Labour Government . |
| 24 | Like the golfer who hits his one decent shot on the eighteenth hole and can not wait for the following weekend 's game , I felt light of heart with the warm promise of another evening in the company of the delightful Sally Drayton . |
| 25 | He can not wait for the proposed exchange of animals . |
| 26 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 27 | Yet this alone can not account for the negative results , for the weight of evidence is such that the general conclusion can hardly be challenged . |
| 28 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |
| 29 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 30 | Moreover , his proposal can not account for the close relationship between pairs of sentences such as : |