Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tend to be looked upon with horror by many students , but you ca n't expect to deal with any but the simplest management problem without considering them . |
| 2 | We made a lot of new friends and ca n't wait to go on one of your holidays again ’ . |
| 3 | I ca n't wait to start on that Spitfire this week |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get into those waves , ’ she shouted over her shoulder as they made their way carefully down . |
| 5 | Micro Focus ca n't afford to wait until 1997 , and is making its marker and sounding out the market now . |
| 6 | At the heart of almost all of Thom 's lyrics is a sense of alienation from his surroundings , whether it 's expressed in ‘ Creep ’ 's whispered final line , ‘ I do n't belong here ’ , or the first words of the last single ‘ Prove Yourself ’ , ‘ I ca n't afford to breathe in this town ’ . |
| 7 | Proprietors need skilled , helpful staff and ca n't afford to rely on casual labour , but neither can they afford idle hands in slack periods . |
| 8 | I ca n't afford to go at fifty , I 've got ta go till fifty five |
| 9 | I ca n't afford to go on foreign holidays . |
| 10 | Certainly not — as a matter of fact , I holidayed not half an hour 's drive from your house , at the bottom of Loch Ness , and it was nothing like the Bahamas — we journalists ca n't afford to go to such places . |
| 11 | ‘ Industry ca n't afford to invest in modern technology because of the Government 's high interest rates , so it is less competitive . |
| 12 | The clinic has taken the unusual step of hiring a dentist to look after those patients who simply ca n't afford to pay for private treatment . |
| 13 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 14 | English student , Nara Kronfli ca n't afford to pay for word-processiong lessons . |
| 15 | I ca n't afford to stay in this awful dump I 'm in for long . ’ |
| 16 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 17 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer all questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 18 | ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’ |
| 19 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 20 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 21 | There are many problems here and we can not hope to deal with all of them adequately , not simply because of limitations of space but , more importantly , because many of them are , as yet , problems to which there are no satisfactory answers , no clear solutions or , very often , many possible solutions but no clearly superior one . |
| 22 | Unless we can see the profound radicalism of the spiritual meaning of his poverty , we can not hope to enter into all the other aspects of the truly happy way of living . |
| 23 | Whites need to recognise that blacks can not hope to prosper in any numbers while they are confined to ghettos of crime , poverty and lousy schools , and that it is society 's duty to do something about it . |
| 24 | But we can not expect to live on this inheritance for ever . |
| 25 | The rich and any poor ( risk-averse ) non-participants can not expect to gain from any revolution and will be happy to see potential revolutionaries bought off . |
| 26 | They were advised in 1743 : You can not expect to marry in such a manner as neither of you shall have occasion to work , and none but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing towards it herself . |
| 27 | At a meeting in Glasgow city halls , he said : ‘ The party can not afford to indulge in internal bickering and name-calling . |
| 28 | Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio . |
| 29 | We have no wish to ruin the stationers who make a profit in this way but , if you are studying and making notes correctly , you will need vast quantities of paper , which you clearly can not afford to buy in this costly fashion . |
| 30 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |