Example sentences of "can not [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washing-up Liquid : If you ca n't get hold of bleach you can use diluted washing-up liquid instead . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 3 | We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it . |
| 4 | We ca n't have Secretaries of State behaving in this way and talking about respected professionals in such disparaging terms |
| 5 | The Home Office say an enquiry is underway , but they ca n't discuss details of prison security . |
| 6 | You know you ca n't feel , you ca n't grab hold of light in your hand . |
| 7 | I ca n't plead affairs of state as he can . " |
| 8 | For me , a publicly sited work can not ignore questions of responsibility and accountability : Who am I addressing ? |
| 9 | I just can not stand lack of consideration for others : shown by people who park their cars so close that you have to slide in sideways — cleaning both cars with your clothes as you squeeze through the 2in space left for opening the door . |
| 10 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 11 | First , in Australian law , an action taken in consequence of an international treaty can not deprive citizens of liberty or property ; second , there is no Australian equivalent of the Fifth Amendment . |
| 12 | In those types of applications those types of systems , we can not afford inavailability of information we need to invest significant sums of money if fault tolerant hardware in mirrored disks in duplex networks . |
| 13 | These schools may be spared the risks of improper use , but schools can not tailor programmes of study to children throughout the range of ability if ability can not be assessed . |
| 14 | The career of a full-time vegetarian forager , always on the move in search of food , can not include patterns of child-care which make such demands on the mother and which put the neonate in such a dependent state . |