Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are not doing it in training they ca n't expect to come into the side . |
| 2 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 3 | Hours of hard work on a dyno have produced extra horsepower , which Ian says he ca n't wait to unleash on the British Clubmans ' Championship . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't wait to bake in the sun . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Daddy ca n't wait to get over the Atlas . |
| 6 | ‘ The rest of the local people ca n't wait to get into the new houses . ’ |
| 7 | " Some of those guys in America ca n't wait to get into the Senior 's Tour where the money is terrific " says giant 17 stone Barnes heading for the magic 50 himself . |
| 8 | Most of them ca n't wait to get into the boats and onto the water . |
| 9 | Gazza ca n't wait to get in the action . |
| 10 | The desperation of people who ca n't afford to live on the pay that they are earning and who look forward to any means of change in that with hope and with optimism because things could n't get worse . |
| 11 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 12 | An award winning scientist paralysed by a wasting disease may be forced to give up his research … because he ca n't afford to pay for the round-the-clock nursing he needs . |
| 13 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 14 | Even if the employee is successful in the job , if the spouse can not adapt to live in the English culture and speak the language , the assignment may well fail . |
| 15 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 16 | I do hope you wo n't mind fearfully , but I 've said I can not continue to serve under the G any longer . |
| 17 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 18 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 19 | To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock . |
| 20 | The Pacific region can not fail to benefit from the current recovery in the US economy , Baillie Gifford believes . |
| 21 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 22 | We can not guarantee to deliver to the person . |
| 23 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 24 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 25 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 26 | He will also be aware that the planning system can now be used to require a developer to make provision for a percentage of homes specifically for young people who can not afford to buy on the open market . |
| 27 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 28 | We can not afford to concentrate on the mote in the eye of the Sudanese military , or in those of the inadequate political leaders in Harare , until we have removed the beam from our own eye . |
| 29 | The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , we can not afford to look beyond the return game with the Belgians and start thinking about Marseille . |