Example sentences of "can not [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Prime Minister answers , let me repeat that a Member must ask questions about matters for which the Prime Minister is responsible ; he can not answer for Labour party policies . |
| 2 | But you can not legislate for bad luck like that . |
| 3 | Given diminishing marginal utility of income , more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period . |
| 4 | If the Oxford can not fly for one reason or another , she will still be the only ‘ live ’ Airspeed aircraft in the world . |
| 5 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 6 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 7 | Yet the primal mother is no longer with us , least of all in modern industrial societies where regimes of child-rearing , although perhaps permissive , can not provide for total maternal-dependency throughout life . |