Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't talk at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 4 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 5 | If you ca n't look at the rushes , you come in every day wondering . |
| 6 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |
| 7 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 8 | A happy theatre a happy ship if you like a corny phrase to use is very very apparent and I 'm sure my colleagues and friends around here would appreciate because they do believe they ca n't get at the management committee and they would like to so please Tom will that be possible at some time in the near future ? |
| 9 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 10 | ‘ So we ca n't get at the marriage certificate , ’ George brooded . |
| 11 | Our problem is we ca n't get at the buyers . |
| 12 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 13 | erm Is education as good , we all think it 's a splendid idea , but surely in this , this day of , of crisis , financial crisis , of hardship , of shutting down hospitals , erm people losing their jobs , surely this is something we really ca n't afford at the scale at it exists at present ? |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't train at the moment , ’ he added . |
| 15 | We ca n't buy at the moment . |
| 16 | ca n't find at the moment . |
| 17 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 18 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 19 | The response points out that there is little point in improving regional road links if traffic can not move at the beginning or end of its journey — inevitably this must involve a public transport solution within urban areas , with some form of limitation on car usage . |
| 20 | Tragically , we can not negotiate at the moment , but that will be put right before too long . |
| 21 | Éomer 's intervention does not help him much , for he and his companions can not decide at the end of chapter 2 whether they have seen Saruman or not . |
| 22 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |
| 23 | We can not park at the weekend and people are already parking on the grass verge . ’ |
| 24 | They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it . |
| 25 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
| 26 | Mr Scully adds that security considerations may limit what data an individual can look at — London , for instance , can not look at the accounts specific to Hong Kong . |
| 27 | We get calls from our customers , from receptionists , for example , who can not balance at the end of the shift . |