Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not walk on a cloud ! " |
| 2 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 3 | They can not compete with a handful of rice and 8d per day . |
| 4 | ‘ The result is that when these children grow up they can not cope with a relationship which demands that they show emotion or feeling . |
| 5 | As we have just seen , sometimes horses can not cope with a situation that causes them great anxiety , and an attack of colic is the result . |
| 6 | ‘ But you can not legislate for a change of heart . |
| 7 | It is reassuring for someone to know that if they jump at shadows or can not sleep after an accident or a crime , it is part of a natural process and that they will get over it . |
| 8 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 9 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 10 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 11 | I can not think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed . |
| 12 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 13 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 14 | Equally , concepts , the stuff of rules , can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys . |
| 15 | So it could in theory , but I can not conceive of a case where a doctor , faced with the refusal of a mentally competent 16-year-old to having an abortion , would terminate the pregnancy merely upon the consent of the girl 's parents . |
| 16 | I do n't know about you , but I can not conceive of a home without a fire . |
| 17 | Many can not conceive of a dinner devoid of animal flesh , and steak , turkey , goose , or roast beef remains the orthodox stuff of celebration . |
| 18 | Since he can not conceive of a situation where the financial accounts would be determined by the budgetary information , he suggests that users ' needs can be developed in financial accounting terms and then , if budgetary information is required , it should be made consistent with the financial accounts . |
| 19 | Because , he claims , ‘ one can not conceive of an observation which would enable one to determine whether the Absolute did , or did not , enter into evolution and progress ’ , then whoever makes a theological statement like the one above ‘ has made an utterance which has no literal significance even for himself ’ . |
| 20 | He said ‘ we can not continue with a system under which teachers decide what people should learn without reference to clear nationally agreed objectives , and without having to expose , and if necessary justify , their decisions ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 23 | This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek . |
| 24 | This has been a problem on some of the new designs of Sprinter and at present , it is often quite uncertain whether one can or can not travel with a cycle on specific journeys , which discourages cyclists from using rail at all . |
| 25 | For I can not hope for a reference from Lady Merchiston , and I am afraid that … ’ |
| 26 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 27 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 28 | Thus he can not contribute to a reallocation of resources or products that will overcome inefficiencies and lack of coordination generated by market ignorance , since no such ignorance and lack of coordination exist in equilibrium . [ … ] |
| 29 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 30 | The meaning is uncertain , but it can not refer to an offering to a demon , as some suggest , for this was strictly forbidden ( see , e.g. , 17:7 ) . |