Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They can not pass off the blame as if the order to close these homes came directly from Whitehall , ’ said Mr Bergg , a member of Great Aycliffe Town Council . |
| 2 | It seems more likely that , in the absence of active hepatitis B virus replication and intracellular nucleopcapid protein ( HBcAg ) , sureplus pre-S peptides can not migrate to the plasma membrane as part of new assembling particles and thus will accumulate in the cytoplasm . |
| 3 | Does he realise that he can not sit on the fence on this one , and what does he intend to do about it ? |
| 4 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 5 | We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions . |
| 6 | This is because the time and preparation needed to achieve the perfect finish can not compete with the sophistication of modern moulding manufacturing processes , which have improved the standard of mass-produced leafing while keeping the cost of the finished mouldings at a realistic level . |
| 7 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 8 | Lairds , like Swans , was designated a Naval yard and therefore intervention fund and for the E E C. With the advent of the peace dividend , those yards , designated Naval yards can not compete with the merchant yards who receive the intervention fund , which is basically a subsidy that allows European yards to compete on a level plain with shipyards in the Far East . |
| 9 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 10 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 11 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |
| 12 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 13 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 14 | But she knows she can not trade on the goodwill of her nation for much longer . |
| 15 | If those lines can not cope during the rush hour at present , how will they cope with double the traffic ? |
| 16 | How children sometimes experience learning difficulties because they can not cope with the specialist language of science , as it is often used in books or by teachers . |
| 17 | While the computer is an obvious tool for handling and organizing large quantities of data in the hyper-medium , straight-forward procedural methods can not cope with the complexity of the organization . |
| 18 | In most of the prisons , corruption has become a way of life and inmates believe that without taking recourse to corrupt practices they can not cope with the culture that prevails . |
| 19 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 20 | At this stage , the infant can not cope with the contradiction implied by the fact that two opposing feelings are aroused by the same object . |
| 21 | Stocking too quickly leads to disease and deaths , as the biological filter can not cope with the load . |
| 22 | I can not cope with the pain , Spike thought . |
| 23 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 24 | The Autoglide can even be used on trackless doors of the canopy variety , which account for 80% of the garage doors installed in the UK , and which conventional garage door openers can not cope with The Autoglide works on a cable principle , with an advanced electronic control box . |
| 25 | There are few specialist clinics and those that do exist can not cope with the demand . |
| 26 | The majority of people who have difficulty coming to terms with the death of a pet can not cope with the fact that the pet is actually dead . |
| 27 | Seminaries can not cope with the number of young men wanting to enter . |
| 28 | The N H S can not cope in the moment with you know , regular sort of cervical cancer smears . |
| 29 | For you can not subtract from the conception of your pain that part of it which is you , the subject , and substitute the notion of another subject ( something like you but not you ) while supposing that the remainder ( the painfulness ) stays unchanged . |
| 30 | Worse ( < ) spring time or on going from cold to warm , becoming warm , they can not breath in the heat . |