Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Tory Central Office in their desperate search for support ca n't even filter out the Labour councillors on a council they apparently despise . |
| 2 | They ca n't even tear up the hotels on this tour because they 're sleeping on the tour bus . |
| 3 | ‘ We found you ca n't just lay out the store like a supermarket , ’ Mr Murray said . |
| 4 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 5 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |
| 6 | On the other hand the journalist can not simply mark up the caption for printing ; it will have to be retyped . |
| 7 | As we explained in chapter 1 , for most variables we do not have such direct observations and can not therefore carry out the tests . |
| 8 | They also show that when people do not know either the APR or the total credit cost , they can not always sniff out the better-value end of the repayment period scale ( in terms of much lower APR ) simply from the level of the instalment payments offered . |
| 9 | This may arise when there are excesses in the diet or when the digestive system is upset and weakened so that it can not fully break down the food for the body to use . |