Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 As an unknown you ca n't rely on the first , and very likely have no hip London friends or business connections to facilitate the second .
2 ‘ We ca n't agree on the first line .
3 I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me .
4 Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one .
5 I ca n't wait for the next revelations .
6 We ca n't wait until the next election . ’
7 Still , ca n't wait till the next game .
8 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 .
9 A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century .
10 Normally , the Maternity Pay Period ( MPP ) can not start before the eleventh week before the expected week of confinement ( EWC ) .
11 FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election .
12 I am saying this in a letter because I am sorry to say I can not get to the next liaison meeting .
13 This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable .
14 The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting .
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