Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orally fixated individual however , like the primal hunter-gatherer , can not achieve such a self-mastery and must rely on his luck to feed whenever and wherever he may need to do so . |
| 2 | If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place . |
| 3 | But of course I can not leave such a place open to — anyone . ’ |
| 4 | Once Laurence said acidly , ‘ You are meant , you know , to be amorous of little Lily — You can not leave all the passion to Polly and me … ’ |
| 5 | I can not make such a promise . |
| 6 | Why , even the executives — clever men , ambitious men , men with briefcases full of management accounts and demographics — can not make such a promise . |
| 7 | He can not make such a commitment . |
| 8 | A local authority can not apply for a residence or contact order and the court can not make such an order in its favour ( s9(2) ) . |
| 9 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 10 | You can not want such a person for a wife , and I certainly do not want a husband who thinks that of me — even before marriage . ’ |
| 11 | That 's not just one player , one player can not do all the talking , it 's got to be just ten , eleven , seven ; seven make other four do , do what they want to do , and we do n't concede goals like that . |
| 12 | It can not reproduce all the recording and reporting which has taken place during a pupil 's years of secondary education . |
| 13 | For the walk-in horses are better pack animals than llamas as they carry much more and cost about the same , but horses can not reach all the base camps . |
| 14 | In many areas , the split is not into a clear cut one of those for and against , but often includes middle groups who are sympathetic to some of the ideas of Liberation Theology but can not go all the way with it . |
| 15 | There is no way they can not go all the way yet again ’ — CIARAN FITZGERALD ( Ireland coach ) after the 38–9 drubbing at the hands of England at Twickenham . |
| 16 | If you can not find such a deed , you have to keep going back in time until one is located . |
| 17 | All I would claim is that given the existence of this phenomenon of extensive , very long-term memory of the campaigns of successful brands , the onus is on the mathematicians to disprove the existence of any long-term effect : the fact that they can not find such an effect , with the somewhat rudimentary apparatus at their disposal , is not enough . |
| 18 | Their anxiety if they can not fill such a gap is close to laughable . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , next month , my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) and I shall be visiting the European Commission and Parliament — not only to tell Mr. Delors that he can not have all the money that he is asking from the British people , but to create business opportunities for our constituents ? |
| 20 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not wait all the morning , ’ Madame said , lighting her cigarette . |
| 22 | Finally , the therapist can not take all the credit for his or her successes ; the healer is merely a catalyst in the process . |
| 23 | They go on to stress that the low level of resourcing can not take all the blame for this state of affairs , since the attitudes and policies of the schools themselves are crucially important . |
| 24 | If the hands are too far forwards , as is often the case , the back arm being so close to the CE can not take all the strain and tends to sheet out causing the board to turn into the wind . |
| 25 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 26 | Robert Young suggests why the presupposition of a shared humanity can not provide such a starting point , although it may operate as a horizon of thought , a desirable if always unachievable aspiration . |