Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Those who make a mistake , or can not think of a word beginning with their letter , drop out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I can not think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed . |
| 11 | Thus , at all pressures below this point carbon dioxide can not exist as a liquid . |
| 12 | Equally , concepts , the stuff of rules , can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't know about you , but I can not conceive of a home without a fire . |
| 15 | Many can not conceive of a dinner devoid of animal flesh , and steak , turkey , goose , or roast beef remains the orthodox stuff of celebration . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For I can not hope for a reference from Lady Merchiston , and I am afraid that … ’ |
| 23 | 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 . [ … ] |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car . |
| 26 | You can not feel like a woman in such 'orrible bloomaires ! ’ |
| 27 | They can not suck from a mare and must be bottle fed if they still posses a suck reflex or by stomach tube if they can not suckle . |
| 28 | I still can not go to a service , nor say the Creed . |
| 29 | Secondly , it will go , in accordance with the voter 's intention , to his next-preference candidate , or to put it more accurately — since it can not go to a candidate already elected or eliminated — to his next available preference . |
| 30 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |