Example sentences of "can not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 2 | He points out : ’ A court faced with a young offender who has been involved in the taking of vehicles , even though it may be his third or possibly fourth appearance , can not simply pass a deterrent sentence on the basis of the prevalence of such offending in the locality Section 1(4A) ( b ) of the 1982 Act deals with protecting the public from serious harm from the offender . |
| 3 | The point is , we can not simply change a word 's meaning for the whole community by fiat . |
| 4 | Freud has sometimes been excluded in this way from sociology , but , as has been shown above , the sociologist can not simply accept a conclusion from psychology and dismiss Freud for this reason . |
| 5 | If a parliament can not effectively question a government , power will slip from its grasp , and government will become autocratic , benign or otherwise . |
| 6 | One might well think that a word can not both label a property or a relation revealed to intuition and its meaning be a construct out of the meanings of other expressions . |
| 7 | If the installed base can not even support a CD-ROM drive , the gap between the current use of technology and an influential installed base of machines with the sophisticated facilities needed for digital multimedia is huge . |
| 8 | In the beginnings of this second stanza , the poet is describing all the wonderful things the sun can do but then goes on to say that all these great wonders are completely forgotten when the sun can not even rejuvenate a man whose body is still warm and almost living . |
| 9 | But what about the regimes he defends in other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia where women can not even drive a car and have no rights at all , and where all opposition is crushed without mercy by long prison sentences , condemnation to death or assassination ? |
| 10 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the board of the vendor company has a duty to act in the best interests of the company , its shareholders and its employees , and can not therefore reject a management buy-out without due consideration . |
| 12 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 13 | It can not only focus a desire for action , but is also satisfyingly accurate in its local ‘ fine-tuning ’ . |
| 14 | Or perhaps the Poet and Friend are separated by unbridgeable gaps of sex and social position , and can not ever form a unit . |
| 15 | Joanna , trying to cope with the painful fact that she can not ever have a baby , begins to remember the life of 19th-century Anna and her son , Merlin . |
| 16 | The teacher does not need to know exactly what will happen and can not usefully plan a story line very far ahead , but should give a great deal of thought to the organisation of the lesson : How will groups be divided ? |
| 17 | According to Barney Holbeche , Parliamentary adviser for the NFU , which negotiated some of the concessions , the new law will also make it quite clear that the ministry can not unreasonably refuse a licence . |
| 18 | If you feel that you can not possibly win a competition as , |
| 19 | But remember that you can not usually make a will unless you are over 18 . |
| 20 | As we argued earlier , we can not usually allow a model which depicts reciprocal causation ; while absence-prone individuals may have difficulty getting good jobs , the former effect is probably the stronger . |