Example sentences of "can not [verb] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A Texaco Trophy victory over Australia can not make amends for that 3–0 Test drubbing in India .
2 Likewise , a plaintiff whose contract entitles him to his wages during incapacity has suffered no loss of wages and so can not recover damages for lost wages .
3 His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong .
4 Unfortunately , the Standard version of Designaknit 4 can not produce patterns for any of these , which is exactly why the Professional version has been developed .
5 Obviously one can not re-use plants for later measurement by the other two systems and so the graphs obtained have fewer points than the earlier ones .
6 ‘ It is very sad to see up to three million people on the dole while we can not get applicants for good jobs in our industry , ’ he added .
7 The Government can not maintain conditions for sustained growth if they do not introduce such conditions .
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