Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The N H S can not cope in the moment with you know , regular sort of cervical cancer smears . |
| 2 | Worse ( < ) spring time or on going from cold to warm , becoming warm , they can not breath in the heat . |
| 3 | That night , Maria can not sleep in the hotel . |
| 4 | During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful . |
| 5 | you really like Christmas do n't you John ? , he said yes , the hall way you can not move in the hall way , it is dripping with decorations , right , |
| 6 | ‘ Mother says he can not smoke in the house while I am with child . ’ |
| 7 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 8 | Combustion can not continue in the absence of oxygen and certain commercially produced fire extinguishers work on this principle . |
| 9 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 10 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 11 | Thus there are clear cases of indirect assistance , such as ( 14 ) above ( where the bare infinitive sounds strange because " a sharp list " can not participate in the action of " cutting loose " , but rather must be conceived as providing a necessary condition for its realization ) . |
| 12 | I regret that I can not participate in the production on your track but will follow its release with interest . ’ |
| 13 | Though penguins can not fly in the air , their bodies and wings are designed for ‘ flying ’ under water . |
| 14 | Another claim is that a certain State has not become a party to a treaty , and therefore can not share in the distribution of values projected by it . |
| 15 | In other words , the null hypothesis is that phytoplankton can not stratify in the absence of a density gradient ( if waters are not shallow ) . |
| 16 | However , adenovirus rarely integrates and can not divide in the cell , so it would only be effective as long as the human cell into which it enters survives . |
| 17 | Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) . |
| 18 | If we can not help in the analysis of concrete problems , we should keep our mouths firmly shut . |
| 19 | That can not happen in the water industry , so there must be much more effective regulation than has existed in the past . |
| 20 | He can not play in the cup or in the league games . |
| 21 | In addition to the mycoplasma , Taylor-Robinson thinks he may have found a new anaerobic bacterium ( one that can not live in the presence of oxygen ) which also seems to be associated with NGU . |
| 22 | Research in Scandinavia and the United States has identified the cost of lifelong dependent care for those with disabilities as something developed economies can not sustain in the future . |
| 23 | Public service broadcasting probably can not survive in the market-place and it therefore needs financial , political , and cultural support . |
| 24 | It is the notion of an artist willing to attempt to maintain traditional ties and yet acknowledging the fact that he can not relax in the security of the past , that art must change . |
| 25 | In the United States of America it has long been held that a municipal authority can not sue in the tort of libel . |
| 26 | A detective listening to this story nodded gravely , for it confirmed his beliefs , and as he said , ‘ these academics can not operate in the cut and thrust of the real world , can they ? ’ |
| 27 | The rule may once have been justified by the fear that without it an accused might be tortured into production of documents but those days are surely past and this consideration can not apply in the context of a civil action . |