Example sentences of "can not [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
2 | Normally , the Maternity Pay Period ( MPP ) can not start before the eleventh week before the expected week of confinement ( EWC ) . |
3 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
4 | I am saying this in a letter because I am sorry to say I can not get to the next liaison meeting . |
5 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
6 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |