Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I understand it correctly , the inset for Skelton is made not because of any question of Policy E Ten , but to recognize the existence of a substantial built-up area , which in the County Council 's opinion er does not can not perform a greenbelt function . |
| 2 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 3 | Driving from Louvois to Bouzy , and taking the left turn into the village itself , one can not miss the corner section of vines proudly signposted as ‘ Bollinger 's Vieilles Vignes ’ . |
| 4 | Keynes ' work was directed at yet another source of market failure — inadequate information available to market traders , in particular firms and workers , so that the market can not achieve the equilibrium wage rate at which there would be full employment . |
| 5 | I can not tell the farming community that this will be a short negotiation . |
| 6 | Admittedly , the back condition responsible is partly congenital , but that can not disguise the root cause , namely over-use . |
| 7 | It is unfair to other members of staff to be late on duty as they can not leave a reception desk unattended . |
| 8 | He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave . |
| 9 | The education delegate , for example , can not promote an adult education programme similar to a late 1970s programme that included subjects such as the political and social history of Guatemala ; Indian movements , leadership training ; human rights , legal rights ; agrarian structure , etc . |
| 10 | The court may determine the length of an order pending appeal but it can not exceed the appeal period . |
| 11 | ‘ He can not deliver the Latino vote , ’ says Angelo Falcon , head of a non-profit think-tank on Puerto Rican politics , ‘ but he will help to tip it . ’ |
| 12 | The account should have the login flags CAPTIVE , DISCTLY and DEFCLI set , and the command procedure which it logs into should only give the account read access by virtue of the SYSPRV privilege ( so that the user can not edit the command procedure after executing the break-out ) . |
| 13 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 14 | Governments argue that they can not make a development omelette without breaking heads . |
| 15 | To summarise , it moves independently in the same way as a large monster or individual character model , can not make a march move , but is obviously unaffected by penalties for wheeling or turning as such manoeuvres are unnecessary . |
| 16 | It looks like they can not make the Queen pay tax so they are coming after us instead . |
| 17 | It can not make the machine work . |
| 18 | Where this is not the case , it may be because males can not identify the breeding potential of young females or because female choice pre-empts male competition rather than because variation in success is slight among males . |
| 19 | Further , there seems no reason to suppose that mental events do not also occupy space-as do other events of which we can not specify the minute space or the minute and myriad spaces which they occupy . |
| 20 | Therefore , in order to maintain control it can not specify the production function and so on explicitly as a constraint . |
| 21 | walls which are not reinforced and can not bear a stone vault . |
| 22 | ‘ One person can not pull a Greyhound bus , ’ says general manager ‘ But when 1300 people get on the rope , the bus moves . ’ |
| 23 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself at the moment , Moss knows that the provision of a pervasive technology standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 24 | Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself , Moss knows that the providing a standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future . |
| 25 | Therefore , one can not locate the priming effect in a semantic sub-system of the mental lexicon , nor in a phonological sub-system , and hence a model of the mental lexicon involving just these two sub-systems is untenable . |
| 26 | ROGER BLACK yesterday revealed he will quit athletics if he can not end the injury nightmare which shattered his Olympic dream . |
| 27 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 28 | If some risky activities are uninsurable at any price , again we can not expect the price system to guide society to an allocation at which social marginal costs and benefits are equal . |
| 29 | He can not handle the back pass … never has done . |
| 30 | The truth is that the new chairman of British Coal has told the Secretary of State that he can not privatise the coal industry in its present state and that the Rothschild report may understate what is really in store for the coal industry . |