Example sentences of "can not [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not expect to negotiate a consensus with Congress and then continue to support Companies who exploit young people , exploit part-time workers , mainly women and refuse to recognise Trade Unions . |
| 2 | Teachers can not expect to foster a child 's all-round development if the child 's roots are ignored . |
| 3 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 4 | Despite this , the face can not fail to evoke a sense of wonder ; the fusion of sheer scale and complexity of the rock architecture sees to that . |
| 5 | FARMERS WEEKLY Farms can not justify owning a combine indeed , we have contract-hired one from Agricultural Plant Hire since 1972 . |
| 6 | GPs can not refuse to treat a person with HIV infection , but dentists can . |
| 7 | However , he can not refuse to dispense a prescription on the grounds that to do so would make him overspend against his budget . |
| 8 | There are many other beautiful things there but I can not resist quoting a caption — for once , given in English — in the room set aside for the revolution of 1848 . |
| 9 | … one can not begin to understand a number of contemporary English novelists unless one realises that to them Joyce 's way is at best a cul-de-sac . |
| 10 | ‘ I should be loth to create more difficulties , but I can not help following a line of thought to its logical end . |
| 11 | ‘ Surely , ’ said Lefevre , ‘ it can not have escaped a man of your experience that some ladies are in the habit of dyeing their hair . ’ |
| 12 | In such a case the firm may have to distribute through a middleman because it can not afford to employ a field sales force . |
| 13 | ‘ When money is tight they simply can not afford to take a gamble on making a mistake and getting the wrong product . |
| 14 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 15 | If you can not afford to become a breeder , forget it now . |
| 16 | She can not afford to make a mistake so she must leave herself to the administrations of Lady G , June 's of Hamilton or Gina Smart in Ayr . |
| 17 | The treatment of space is what good design is all about but far too many people think that if they can not afford to change a room structurally nothing else is going to alter the look and feel . |
| 18 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |
| 19 | Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet . |
| 20 | Liverpool can not afford to concede a goal tonight - and James has yet to keep a clean sheet . |
| 21 | This has serious implications for people in rural areas who can not afford to run a car or are physically unable to do so . |
| 22 | In fact I can not remember reading a book on this topic which I found more rewarding or useful . |
| 23 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 24 | He can understand imagining something ( a cave , perhaps ) as a dwelling ; but can not understand imagining a butterfly exactly as it is , but ugly . |