Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't start too soon to take care of your skin , ’ Alice said . |
| 3 | Tim and I are just simply out of sync at the moment — I ca n't think how else to put it . |
| 4 | It was a chest wound an' I ca n't do much now wivout gettin' out o' breath , ’ he told her . |
| 5 | Erm against that there is this elephant which appears , and you say we might have it and find a zoo for it , and in fact we ca n't move fast enough to find the zoo . |
| 6 | Anyway , I ca n't stand around here chatting all day . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't go on just standing by , you know . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah well you ca n't go there not washed and changed . |
| 9 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 10 | They do n't have enough oxygen because you just ca n't breathe fast enough to use up that oxygen in that tremendous burst of power . |
| 11 | People argue that if you do n't know the people you are going to meet you ca n't plan how best to behave . |
| 12 | Now this one , if yo , you can work out how it works , cos I ca n't work out how to get that antiperspirant to go on your body . |
| 13 | People do n't go there until they know where to go , and they ca n't find out where to go until they 've been . |
| 14 | If the patient can not speak well enough to explain all this , he can carry a card explaining his problem , and what kind of help he needs . |
| 15 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 16 | They claim to support democracy in other parts of the world , but in Wales local communities can not choose how best to regenerate their local economies . |
| 17 | The optical fibre cable recently laid to Number 10 Downing Street joined a network which the group can not spread fast enough to meet demand . |
| 18 | At frequencies above ο max the dipoles can not move fast enough to follow the alternating field so both ε′ and ε′′ are low . |
| 19 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 20 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 21 | I also have an envelope tray for my LaserJet but can not find out how to get Word for Windows to send the right control code to the LaserJet III to set the envelope size . |
| 22 | On the other hand there are many decisions that are never made because the decider can not figure out how to implement the decision at the very first stage . |
| 23 | If you can not wait any longer to buy , the next step is to work out what you can afford to borrow , and from there the likely price range of your new house . |
| 24 | We can not afford any longer to waste the abilities of 80 per cent of all the children in the maintained system by relegating them to a ‘ worse ’ form of education . |
| 25 | In a class buzzing with activity a child with severely defective vision can get left behind or left out because he can not see clearly how to perform the tasks involved . |
| 26 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |