Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is correct , in general , that a public nuisance can not arise out of the lawful use of a highway , as Mr. Ashworth submitted , it is not , in my judgment , because there is no unlawful act . |
| 2 | No doubt if I can not break out of the convention of thinking as though I were a detached Ego contemplating unmoved both the possible consequences and my fear of them , it will seem that I can have no reason to stop smoking unless I recognize some further imperative such as ‘ Take care of your health ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 4 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 5 | I can not find out of the evidence any facts which support the view or which justify the inference . |
| 6 | TV time is bought well in advance , and is subject to a standard cancellation date — of eight weeks — beyond which the advertiser and agency can not back out of the commitment to advertise ( though in practice an agency may , in an emergency , transfer the time to another client or a different brand ) . |
| 7 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 8 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |