Example sentences of "we can not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say : " Educational technology is not about audiovisual materials " is perfectly true , but we can not suppose from this that it does not include them . |
| 2 | ‘ At the moment , we can not identify with any certainty the eggs that will develop into normal embryos . |
| 3 | ‘ We can not tell at all how the pol[itica]l situation will develop , ’ wrote Trevelyan to Morel in July 1915 , adding : ‘ There is no hurry . ’ |
| 4 | On the basis of the data presented here , we can not distinguish between these two most plausible explanations for the residual activity observed with Dcm/Cys177Ser . |
| 5 | What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless ? |
| 6 | What worth is our own job if we can not feel for those who are unemployed ? |
| 7 | What comfort can we get from our own happiness if we can not feel for those who are condemned to live in misery ? |
| 8 | ‘ The ordering-off broke up a successful partnership between Hateley and Ally McCoist and we can not hide from that fact , ’ said Smith . |
| 9 | " We can not speak of 'Ukrainian Decembrists ' , but … only of Decembrists in the Ukraine " . |
| 10 | Langbaurgh council leader Arthur Taylor said : ‘ We can not speak for other authorities , but as far as Langbaurgh is concerned , we have no debt with Caldaire . ’ |
| 11 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 12 | Without this we can not engage in any worthwhile legal work or provide access to items . |
| 13 | Er we think it , er should be , you know drawn to the public 's attention , government 's attention that we can not tolerate within this county , this high level of unemployment that we 've got , and we 're gon na do our damndest as a County Council to do what we can I know there is in order to , to attack that particular problem . |
| 14 | In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all . |
| 15 | We can not go on untouched in the old self-centred ways if the Holy Spirit has made his residence within us . |
| 16 | Thus when we see the often remarkable similarity between the principles of the Godwinians and of Bloomsbury , and the external relations implied by these — a rational and tolerant group wishing to extend reason and tolerance , where necessary by radical reform — we find also that we can not stay on this level , since the actual external relations were also determined by others . |
| 17 | And here we can not rely on particular instances of shared knowledge and experience . |
| 18 | Some of us try to propose and reason when we can not cope with another person 's emotions . |
| 19 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 20 | However , at the beginning of the year we can not know for certain what the inflation rates will be ; we can only have expectations about what they will be . |
| 21 | replied , ‘ We can not agree to single pole construction , from which we presume you mean bracket arm construction , in place of span wires . ’ |
| 22 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 23 | We can not work above 7½ hours in winter and about 12 in summer . " |
| 24 | In considering such arrangements , we can not stick at simple legal considerations ; we must move from questions of ‘ freedom from ’ to questions of ‘ ability to ’ . |
| 25 | But we can not skip to this stage until our anger has been expressed . |
| 26 | But we can not deal with this without asking ourselves what the results of a university education are supposed to be and what degree of intrinsic value pertains to them . |
| 27 | We can not discriminate between those who happen to have been advised that they might be entitled to claim and those who , of their own volition , decide to claim . |
| 28 | That is one of the principal arguments of those on the Government Benches who say that we should not sign up , that we can not say at this stage whether we are capable , as an economy , of participating without damage in a single currency . |
| 29 | ‘ We can not say in each case exactly what the defendant did . |
| 30 | We 've got so much to do that requires investment which is why er I have said er that we can not have in general , across the board tax cuts , er income tax cuts , because we need the money for that crucial social investment . |