Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concessive holists can not simply ignore this divide , as Miller does , for this will leave their own position undefended . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , we can not simply solve these equations arid see if the resulting solution is non-negative , as in the examples of Chapter 5 , because we have more variables than equations — a consequence of ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) being a degenerate solution of LP* ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) ( by construction ) . |
| 3 | If extremely directed efforts by conventional organic chemistry can not yet make this molecule , its spontaneous formation out of chaos stretches credulity . |
| 4 | As we can not yet do all analyses on one sample , we have assumed that the mineralogy was similar to that of visually identical samples , which were indistinguishable from those reported previously from the same location ( finely intergrown siderite , Mg-calcite and iron sulphide ) . |
| 5 | At 50 kg the device is too heavy to take up Japan 's steep hills — and it can not yet produce on-the-spot pictures . |
| 6 | you can not yet buy one dish of Chinese food in all Italy |
| 7 | Droughts in South Africa ( see box ) , changes in the southern oscillation , El Nino and other facets of the circulation in the southern hemisphere are surely interlinked , but the complexity of the energy exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere is such that computer models can not yet provide reliable forecasts of changes in phenomena such as the southern oscillation . |
| 8 | This may indicate that user interfaces to query structures can not yet replicate human processes of spatial reasoning in a reasonable time , or that in software terms it is inefficient to extend SQL , and that an alternative must be found . |
| 9 | A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others . |
| 10 | It is natural to assume that = , whether assigned or not , can not normally relate intensional elements of different types , i.e. an entity and a property ( but see ( 37 ) ) . |
| 11 | Unlike physicists , however , social scientists can not easily construct social circuits from which the effect of sexual magnetism is just banished , for example . |
| 12 | Without such a compromise , the vendor can not easily recover this sum and the purchaser would have no real interest in pursuing it . |
| 13 | If they can not immediately find open employment the DRO might find them a place in the government-run sheltered employment scheme which is known as Remploy . |
| 14 | Organic farming is like wild gardening — you can not just stop all planning and let nature take over . |
| 15 | So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the |
| 16 | Not all sentences are interesting , relevant , or suitable ; one can not just put any sentence after another and hope that it will mean something . |
| 17 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 18 | She can not even bother these days to tour with him . ’ |
| 19 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 20 | They have seen the Court of Appeal 's judgment as stating that even an express clause can not validly protect confidential information unless it is a narrow trade secret or its equivalent . |
| 21 | Local education authorities can not blindly ignore central government policies . |
| 22 | Short-term study of in-house use can not safely predict long-term patterns . |
| 23 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 24 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 25 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 26 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
| 27 | But whatever criteria we use , we can not conceivably make valid judgements unless we spell out what we are attempting to achieve and try to measure whether we have achieved it or not . |
| 28 | Because mathematics can not really handle infinite numbers , this means that the general theory of relativity ( on which Friedmann 's solutions are based ) predicts that there is a point in the universe where the theory itself breaks down . |
| 29 | For inorganic systems , especially those involving transition metals , there are special techniques which are used to predict ( d-d ) transition energies , for example , but even those with adjustable parameters can not always give unambiguous interpretations of the observed spectra . |
| 30 | These substances emit gamma rays , which pass through the food and kill most things , including yeasts , moulds and most forms of bacteria — although they can not always kill all bacteria , such as those which cause botulism . |