Example sentences of "they can not [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aeroflot 's transatlantic flights still need to land at Shannon airport in Ireland to refuel because they can not not carry enough fuel to complete the journey between New York and London . |
| 2 | If they can not immediately find open employment the DRO might find them a place in the government-run sheltered employment scheme which is known as Remploy . |
| 3 | They can not simply allow one sectional interest in the community to override others . |
| 4 | These substances emit gamma rays , which pass through the food and kill most things , including yeasts , moulds and most forms of bacteria — although they can not always kill all bacteria , such as those which cause botulism . |
| 5 | Now they can not possibly do these things without becoming painfully aware , as I am sure they are already , of the problems arising through lack of financial er er financial sufficiency or poverty among the old people . |
| 6 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 7 | They can not then use that small amount for the few personal items that they may want to buy when they are in residential homes . |