Example sentences of "can not [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I understand it correctly , the inset for Skelton is made not because of any question of Policy E Ten , but to recognize the existence of a substantial built-up area , which in the County Council 's opinion er does not can not perform a greenbelt function . |
| 2 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 3 | It is unfair to other members of staff to be late on duty as they can not leave a reception desk unattended . |
| 4 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 5 | Governments argue that they can not make a development omelette without breaking heads . |
| 6 | To summarise , it moves independently in the same way as a large monster or individual character model , can not make a march move , but is obviously unaffected by penalties for wheeling or turning as such manoeuvres are unnecessary . |
| 7 | walls which are not reinforced and can not bear a stone vault . |
| 8 | ‘ One person can not pull a Greyhound bus , ’ says general manager ‘ But when 1300 people get on the rope , the bus moves . ’ |
| 9 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 10 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself , Moss knows that the providing a standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 11 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 12 | You can not predicate a parish life upon shifting populations and broken communities . |
| 13 | But it does not mean that , with some ingenuity , you can not set a detective story , or almost any of its variants and successors , at some period in the past . |
| 14 | You will not know the precise balance until you have prepared a completion statement , and you can not prepare a completion statement until you have worked out your own firm 's costs and disbursements ; and indeed until you have taken into account the costs and additional fees or charges that may be relevant to the particular transaction . |
| 15 | Today , you can not find a parking space . |
| 16 | At the moment I have to knit the clothes by hand as I can not find a machine knitting pattern for a 12″ doll ( it is not a teenage doll ) anywhere . |
| 17 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 18 | You can not judge a TV campaign 's weight by the number of crosses on a visual . |
| 19 | On the evidence of this study it is unlikely that any relative risk could be as large as twofold , but we can not discount a 50% increase in risk . |
| 20 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 21 | The felt need to get the cleaning done conflicts with the desire to be sociable ; one can iron , or perhaps cook , while talking to a friend or neighbour , but one can not wield a vacuum cleaner and carry on a conversation at the same time . |
| 22 | A court can not substitute a care order for a supervision order on an application for discharge . |
| 23 | Legal experts said that although medical science claims there is a link , lawyers would challenge the link on a technicality — a fetus can not read a newspaper advertisement . |
| 24 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 25 | said to me , ‘ We can not have a railway strike , it would be so disturbing to all of us ’ … |
| 26 | What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action ? |
| 27 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 28 | He says , " I can not remember a dream report which took the form , " Well , I was dreaming of such and such , but as I was dreaming this I was imagining a different scene which was completely unrelated . " " |
| 29 | ‘ And if you can not see a Merkut hand behind what has happened , so are you . ’ |
| 30 | Due to the tunnel going through several types of rock of varying hardness , the tunnellers can not use a tunnelling machine like the ones used in the Channel tunnel work . |