Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] their [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you ca n't ignore their alcohol content . |
| 2 | This does not mean that , as a survival technique , individual species can not vary their body size to suit circumstances . |
| 3 | The FA Cup finalists are on their way to Wembley but they can not reproduce their knockout form in bread-and-butter Second Division matches . |
| 4 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |
| 5 | We could do something tonight by having the Minister announce that magistrates will stop putting in prison people who can not pay their poll tax . |
| 6 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 7 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |