Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I feel I 'd like to pack a bag and just go … sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 3 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 4 | That was a great holiday — and I ca n't wait for next year to come |
| 5 | If you ca n't wait for next month then you could get hold of a copy of my book ‘ QBasic:The Language of MS-DOS ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Poor Dora , she ca n't wait for this week to be over , ’ Melissa remarked . |
| 7 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 8 | said , if I ca n't come for that typewriter then I 've sold it , he said I , I told her if she wanted it she 'd got to come and collect it and he said and nobody asked for it , I said well I know |
| 9 | Unfortunately , household expenses do n't go away just because you 're in hospital or ca n't work for any length of time . |
| 10 | I ca n't believe for one minute that Perry would really give it up to be a video director . |
| 11 | I ca n't imagine for one minute what it must have been like to raise children here . |
| 12 | Before the Prime Minister answers , let me repeat that a Member must ask questions about matters for which the Prime Minister is responsible ; he can not answer for Labour party policies . |
| 13 | But you can not legislate for bad luck like that . |
| 14 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 15 | If the Oxford can not fly for one reason or another , she will still be the only ‘ live ’ Airspeed aircraft in the world . |
| 16 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 17 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 18 | Yet the primal mother is no longer with us , least of all in modern industrial societies where regimes of child-rearing , although perhaps permissive , can not provide for total maternal-dependency throughout life . |