Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , we ca n't simply go from table to table asking , can we ? ’ |
| 2 | You Dublin geezers are so bent , you ca n't even lie in bed straight ! ’ |
| 3 | I 'm saying is , is you ought to get very close to that geographical map because it 's the logistic logistics er difficulty with getting , and you ought to know where there are mountains and where there are valleys and the fact that that , in South Wales they ca n't just go across country , they have to go back down the valley after the M four and up again . |
| 4 | But of course you ca n't just go by character . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you ca n't just sit at home all day . ’ |
| 6 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 7 | She likes the company of young people and finds they often talk to her about things they ca n't always discuss at home . |
| 8 | But I mean if you 're puking up everywhere you ca n't obviously go into work can you ? |
| 9 | Now you ca n't actually park by casualty 's door , you 're going to have to park a little bit before that . |
| 10 | I ca n't really stay in bed past nine o'clock . |
| 11 | Do you know y y you , it 's a different aspect , you go out here and all you see everything at ground level and you ca n't really see on top of everything |
| 12 | You ca n't really profit by being second best |
| 13 | The internal organs would become more complicated : they can not simply increase in size because surface area will not increase proportionately , so more intestinal loops and skin tufts may have arisen and , as with the Dimetrodon , bony neck frills may become heat-dissipating devices . |
| 14 | Also , we can often see that children can use concepts that they can not yet express in English . |
| 15 | Animals this heavy can not safely leap from tree to tree as smaller animals can . |
| 16 | You can not really communicate in art without a common language . |
| 17 | The persuasive approach of the alternative initiatives may take longer ( and time is a luxury one can not always afford in politics ) but it should be more influential . |
| 18 | This group are not currently paying rent or rates to a private landlord or the Council , so can not currently apply for help . |
| 19 | The SAS method of practising speechreading helps to prevent speech articulation becoming slovenly , especially when hearing-aids can not fully compensate for hearing loss . |
| 20 | Just as a particle and an antiparticle will totally annihilate each other if placed in contact , there is no reason why pairs of particles and antiparticles can not abruptly spring into existence — the accent being on the word ‘ pairs ’ . |
| 21 | A celibate can not possibly imagine without sin ( in which there is no parvitas materiae ) what sexual intercourse is like , and is therefore hardly well placed to judge the psychological effects of artificial contraception . |
| 22 | ‘ Practical consciousness ’ refers to the knowledge of the social world incorporated into actors , but a knowledge which they can not directly express through speech . |