Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 2 | Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer all questions from readers through the medium of this column . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’ |
| 4 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 5 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 6 | There are many problems here and we can not hope to deal with all of them adequately , not simply because of limitations of space but , more importantly , because many of them are , as yet , problems to which there are no satisfactory answers , no clear solutions or , very often , many possible solutions but no clearly superior one . |
| 7 | Unless we can see the profound radicalism of the spiritual meaning of his poverty , we can not hope to enter into all the other aspects of the truly happy way of living . |
| 8 | Whites need to recognise that blacks can not hope to prosper in any numbers while they are confined to ghettos of crime , poverty and lousy schools , and that it is society 's duty to do something about it . |
| 9 | But we can not expect to live on this inheritance for ever . |
| 10 | The rich and any poor ( risk-averse ) non-participants can not expect to gain from any revolution and will be happy to see potential revolutionaries bought off . |
| 11 | They were advised in 1743 : You can not expect to marry in such a manner as neither of you shall have occasion to work , and none but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing towards it herself . |
| 12 | At a meeting in Glasgow city halls , he said : ‘ The party can not afford to indulge in internal bickering and name-calling . |
| 13 | Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio . |
| 14 | We have no wish to ruin the stationers who make a profit in this way but , if you are studying and making notes correctly , you will need vast quantities of paper , which you clearly can not afford to buy in this costly fashion . |
| 15 | The Government have never accepted that there are some people who can not afford to pay for local government services . |
| 16 | A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air . |