Example sentences of "can not [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain can not match the French achievement and in some subjects the number of people undergoing vocational training has declined . |
| 2 | Petrol engines also now need fuel injection , as well as electronic engine management systems and expensive catalytic converters to meet exhaust regulations , and even then they can not match the lean-burn diesel for most emissions . |
| 3 | Expert systems can not perform the full range of reasoning strategies handled by the human brain and therefore do not replace human experts rather they are complementary to human expertise . |
| 4 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 5 | And the ensuing battle , of which all Christians are aware in their experience , means either that they can not achieve the good intentions they have or , if the Greek is taken in another sense , that the presence of the mighty Spirit prevents them doing what , if they followed the dictates of mere self-will , they otherwise would ( Gal.5:17 ) . |
| 6 | It follows that LTP can not achieve the maximum strength of which a synapse is capable : the potential for a further short-term increase is always held in reserve . |
| 7 | I can not applaud the rosy vision of a senior colleague whose spirited defence of grading ( and rejection of profiles ) climaxed as follows : |
| 8 | I can not tell the hon. Gentleman now what my attitude will be at the end of a meeting that is due to take place on Wednesday because the whole purpose of that meeting is for negotiations to take place . |
| 9 | But even Close can not answer the crucial question . |
| 10 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is because , though we can consciously trace the outline of the fear , it 68 CREATIVE WRITING reaches so far into the hidden recesses of our minds that we can not control the involuntary response . |
| 12 | He fears that his libidinal impulses and those of other people can not control the aggressive impulses sufficiently to prevent utter chaos and destruction . |
| 13 | They can not control the detailed processes . |
| 14 | Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time . |
| 15 | While we must support family rooms in those pubs which have the space and can provide suitable amusement for the little angels , this can not remain the only answer to the problem . |
| 16 | Yet this can not disguise the shifting assessment of US interests which has already seen Bonn replace London as the crucial European relationship . |
| 17 | That contextual modulation of the general sense of dog can not explain the specific interpretation in 22 is shown by the lack of a parallel specific interpretation of canine ( in its jocular use as a noun ) when it is substituted for dog : |
| 18 | We can not explain the special responsibilities of political office , therefore , if we try to build these directly from ordinary principles of private morality . |
| 19 | Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime . |
| 20 | But plate tectonics they say , can not explain the immense diversity of land formation and exotic arrangement of rock in western North America . |
| 21 | The need to recognize species , however , can not explain the bizarre development of sexual characters . |
| 22 | But the myriad electronic images and printed words that pour in daily from the Balkan war zone can not convey the whole truth about what is going on there . |
| 23 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 24 | We can not entertain the simplistic notion of reading as a process which proceeds by decoding the message , in real time , from one level to another . |
| 25 | Quite apart from concern over the traces of solvent often left behind in absolutes , we can not ignore the environmental effects of solvents being discharged into the atmosphere and possibly being absorbed by distillery workers . |
| 26 | One can not ignore the persistent nature of our unemployment figures and little imagination is needed to visualise the hopelessness of the unemployed . |
| 27 | Those responsible for post-school education can not ignore the changing context in which their work takes place . |
| 28 | But although we must operate throughout the world , we can not ignore the national differences in the marketplace . |
| 29 | The Uprising has shown beyond all doubt that King Husayn can not represent the Palestinian people . |
| 30 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |