Example sentences of "you can [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some films have to be shot on location : you can not create a moving ‘ face ’ out of several thousand people for a British Airways commercial in any other way . |
| 2 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 3 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 4 | If you can not reach a consensual agreement concerning the status of rights of both the majority and the minority population , then you must reckon with a strong possibility or war . |
| 5 | It may help to remember that you can not build a towering future on inadequate foundations and that the deeper you sink into experience , the higher you can soar . |
| 6 | You can not build a fair system on that stinking swamp of menace and malice and neglect . |
| 7 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |
| 8 | The main point to realise is that if you can not feel a positive lock , you are either not pushing hard enough or the lock is completely out of adjustment and too light to be effective . |
| 9 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 10 | Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design . |
| 11 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 12 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 13 | Or perhaps you 've found that you can not make a square turn to the right like those you find so easy to the left . |
| 14 | If you find that you can not hold a normal conversation after exercising , then you are overdoing it . |
| 15 | Even with a very good filtration system , you can not stock a new tank very heavily straight away . |
| 16 | If you can not see a suitable field , do n't be afraid to make a well banked circle to look right round the whole area . |
| 17 | Yet , by some strange trick of perspective , you can not see a single canal ! |
| 18 | Since this sequence can not be represented in any other way ( see below ) , you can not cancel a suspended CLI command file from within a program . |
| 19 | Remember , you can not cancel a suspended CLi command file from within a program . |
| 20 | You can not become a bad player overnight in terms of technique but undoubtedly you can become so mentally — if you start doubting yourself , for example . |
| 21 | Taking the second first , the pathname specified for the concealed logical must be a physical pathname — you can not use a concealed logical of a concealed logical in order to traverse deeper than 16 directory levels . |
| 22 | You can not use a singular form of the verb with a plural pronoun. ( 17 November 1988 ) |
| 23 | You can not use a parametric test because the size-frequency of the potential prey population is unlikely to be normal . |
| 24 | In fact , provided the secondary potential is only around 30 volts or less , you can not get a noticeable shock from the secondary circuitry . |
| 25 | NOWR As you do not have write access to this module via the current package , you can not enter a new version . |
| 26 | Freer-Smith added , ‘ The problem with surveys is that you can not establish a causal relationship . ’ |
| 27 | specialist on pain at University College London , ‘ you can not produce a stunning pain without injury . |
| 28 | He 's just a kid you can not hit a wee kid . |
| 29 | You can not raise a young person 's self esteem or prevent the spread of HIV this way ’ . |
| 30 | Which we 've already talked about and there 's no reason why erm , you can not have a one pager for access . |