Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They ca n't think further ahead than four years , can they ? |
| 2 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 3 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 4 | You ca n't do any better than this ? |
| 5 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 6 | I 'm aware that you ca n't move too fast because of your audience . |
| 7 | I 'd rather have the doctor saying that I ca n't go home rather than me signing myself out . |
| 8 | We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung |
| 9 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 10 | Yeah well I ca n't , I ca n't get any further than that . |
| 11 | Two apart ca n't live as cheaply as two together . |
| 12 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
| 13 | I have very , very small hands , but even for me , I ca n't write comfortably more than half way across that page . |
| 14 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 15 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 16 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 17 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 18 | This does not mean that big companies can not fail as frequently as small companies . |
| 19 | A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well . |
| 20 | But undulating side-wings are not such powerful propellants as a thrashing tail , so the manta can not swim as fast as its shark cousins or rival them as hunters . |
| 21 | In temperate forests , fungi and detritus eating insects can not work as quickly as in the tropics , and leaf litter builds up . |
| 22 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 23 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
| 24 | Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men . |