Example sentences of "can not [verb] [that] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not pretend that I shall ever like him , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 2 | During this time , stocking levels must be minimal : you can not hope that it will sustain its previous population right from the off . |
| 3 | He named a sum , adding ‘ I can not hope that you will agree to continue as a mere reader here . ’ |
| 4 | At the same time , it is argued , the increasing demand for competitively gained qualifications means that children from middle-class families can not assume that they will avoid downward mobility . |
| 5 | Just because the technology offers exciting possibilities , we can not assume that they will be realised . |
| 6 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 7 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 8 | I can not believe that you will burn them . |
| 9 | I can not believe that you will not . |
| 10 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |
| 11 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |
| 12 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 13 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 14 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 15 | They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think . |
| 16 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 17 | still a human error even though you know how to do it , and we can not guarantee that you 'll do it so it , so it is , the , it is very important that nobody takes anything off the shelf automatically assume |
| 18 | Sample sizes can not be decided independently of acceptable error since sampling can not guarantee that it will provide the true population value . |
| 19 | I am sorry for the poor girl if her bridegroom chooses to behave as he did tonight , and , knowing him well , I can not imagine that he will be any better behaved when he is married to her than he was before . ’ |
| 20 | I promise not to offend again , although I can not promise that I will keep the promise . ’ |
| 21 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 22 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not see that it would do much good . ’ |
| 24 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 25 | I I can not see that it can have because it was n't actually put to him but he did mention twice in his judgement that he was aware of this new material and as Neil Bennet said , we 'll have to wait and see what that is . |
| 26 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |