Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach |
| 2 | I can not emphasize too strongly that I have not here attempted to provide a detailed exposition or erect a comprehensive critique of multiculturalist and antiracist assumptions and practices . |
| 3 | but I can not emphasize too strongly that you should only choose furniture and furnishings that make you feel comfortable . |
| 4 | I can not stress too strongly that it is vital to know what you are treating , and that unless the problem is obviously pathogenic ( eg White Spot ) or organic ( visible tumour ) then you should ALWAYS suspect an environmental problem , and usually the culprit is poor water quality . |
| 5 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 6 | To those who are new to this absorbing — and highly addictive — branch of the model hobby , I can not repeat too often that the two essential ingredients for success are dogged persistence and experienced help . |
| 7 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 8 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 9 | On the one hand towards a more realist approach which is essential but can not go too far because if pursued at other than a meso-scale level is in danger of leading towards natural and biological sciences . |
| 10 | This does not mean that big companies can not fail as frequently as small companies . |
| 11 | A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well . |
| 12 | But undulating side-wings are not such powerful propellants as a thrashing tail , so the manta can not swim as fast as its shark cousins or rival them as hunters . |
| 13 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 14 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 15 | In temperate forests , fungi and detritus eating insects can not work as quickly as in the tropics , and leaf litter builds up . |
| 16 | When a nation can not produce as cheaply or as well as foreigners , then no barriers will save it against smugglers , fashion and the consumer 's interest . |
| 17 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 18 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
| 19 | Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men . |