Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are encouraged to participate in any Group or ‘ local ’ schemes such as recycling initiatives , since , without involvement from everyone , and a general recognition that we are all responsible for protection of the environment , we can not achieve our Group objective . |
| 2 | This does not mean that , as a survival technique , individual species can not vary their body size to suit circumstances . |
| 3 | If a school is going to prepare a pupil for the ‘ opportunities and experiences of adult life ’ as it is required to do by section 1 of the Education Reform Act 1988 , it surely can not ignore his/her sex education . |
| 4 | Now as far as actually calculating what effect , the re-employment earnings will have on your pension , er basically your pension and your reemployment earnings can not exceed your salary reference . |
| 5 | Our empty shipyards can not refurbish our cruise liners to the same time-scale as overworked but competitive foreign yards . |
| 6 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 7 | The FA Cup finalists are on their way to Wembley but they can not reproduce their knockout form in bread-and-butter Second Division matches . |
| 8 | ( NB we can not confirm which building clients will be staying in ) . |
| 9 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |
| 10 | We could do something tonight by having the Minister announce that magistrates will stop putting in prison people who can not pay their poll tax . |
| 11 | When you 're drawing up the timetable right at the beginning there is no reason why you can not fix your planning meeting dates , and stick pretty closely to them . |
| 12 | One , the German firm Clean Concept based at Augsburg , can not fly its twin turboprop to Ipswich , but must land at Stansted or Cambridge on its regular visits , with executives completing the trip by car . |
| 13 | They objected to an advertisement in which a jaded American factory manager complains that he can not cut his labour costs . |
| 14 | She has promised , even , to go early , but can not persuade her husband Brian to go early with her . |
| 15 | If you can not persuade your class members how about enrolling your — husband — mother — or other members of your family . |
| 16 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 17 | In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates . |
| 18 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |
| 19 | We did not separate her from her children , but the Council can not allow our infant King to wander where he will . ’ |
| 20 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 21 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |