Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic .
4 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 .
5 This does not mean that big companies can not fail as frequently as small companies .
6 A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well .
7 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 .
8 In temperate forests , fungi and detritus eating insects can not work as quickly as in the tropics , and leaf litter builds up .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men .
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