Example sentences of "can not [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , we can not create a competitive market of ideas in crime investigation . |
| 2 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 3 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 4 | Schools can not achieve a major change on this and the ‘ basics ’ unaided by the rest of us . |
| 5 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 6 | In most organisations , top down authority goes hand-in-hand with departmentalisation and the division of work , so that a senior manager in department A can not tell a junior manager in department B what to do , because his authority does not cross department or sectional boundaries . |
| 7 | If you find that you can not hold a normal conversation after exercising , then you are overdoing it . |
| 8 | They have repeatedly cut benefits for the disabled by abolishing industrial injury benefit , by abolishing disablement benefit for seven out of eight disabled people and by abolishing the reduced earnings allowance for disabled people who can not earn a full wage . |
| 9 | Among Tory supporters 48pc believed the Prime Minister can not remain a credible leader while 45pc thought he could . |
| 10 | Despite the all the cutbacks that so clearly indicate that IBM Corp now acknowledges that the mainframe can not remain a dominant part of its business for much longer , the company does have new models up its sleeve for early next year — February is thought likely , our US associate Technology News of America hears . |
| 11 | It may help to remember that you can not build a towering future on inadequate foundations and that the deeper you sink into experience , the higher you can soar . |
| 12 | You can not build a fair system on that stinking swamp of menace and malice and neglect . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire health authority has decided that a threatened £500,000 overspend means it can not open a new cardiology unit which would have freed beds for other uses . |
| 14 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 15 | It may , and does , tolerate considerable neglect of those symbols and stated beliefs , but those people who find the Free Presbyterian/DUP element petty in their refusal to help restore a Church of Ireland church or attend Remembrance Day services can not promote a coherent ideology which would justify their criticisms . |
| 16 | In Wales , the Home Secretary can not distinguish a rural community from an urban community , much less appreciate the different policing needs of each . |
| 17 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |
| 18 | Man can not lead a spiritual life unless he is free of his body 's demands . ’ |
| 19 | For example : Priority date 1st August 1988 Infringement commenced 1st July 1989 Infringement ceased 1st January 1991 Patent formally granted 1st February 1992 The patent owner will be entitled to damages based on the period of infringement ( 1st July 1989 to 1st January 1991 ) but can not bring a legal action for damages against the infringer until after 1st February 1986 . |
| 20 | Many spinners can not deliver a slower ball without it being obvious , yet he can get quality batsmen charging up and down the pitch trying to pick the pace and flight . |
| 21 | I can not devote a whole book to the subject , so my descriptions of the numerous cheeses available will be rather brief . |
| 22 | ‘ King he is not and can not be , for King Richard was well alive when this man took the crown , and an abdication under duress is no valid abdication and can not confer a valid right . |
| 23 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 24 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 25 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 26 | In direct criticism of Wolfenden , he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality . |
| 27 | This issue was followed up in qualitative interviews with a panel of young people , for while we can not make a simple equation between aloneness and the experience of social and psychological difficulty , young people do seem to need to interact with friends in resolving some of their conflicts . |
| 28 | STALEMATE : when a king is not in check and when his side can not make a legal move , the position is called a stalemate and the game is a draw . |
| 29 | Without such a juxtaposition , you can not make a rational assessment of twentieth century design . |
| 30 | Consequently , the court can not make a prohibited steps order , or a specific issue order , to achieve a residence order . |