Example sentences of "can not [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 2 | The N H S can not cope in the moment with you know , regular sort of cervical cancer smears . |
| 3 | Worse ( < ) spring time or on going from cold to warm , becoming warm , they can not breath in the heat . |
| 4 | That night , Maria can not sleep in the hotel . |
| 5 | During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful . |
| 6 | you really like Christmas do n't you John ? , he said yes , the hall way you can not move in the hall way , it is dripping with decorations , right , |
| 7 | ‘ Mother says he can not smoke in the house while I am with child . ’ |
| 8 | Equally , concepts , the stuff of rules , can not exist in a vacuum as mere semantic toys . |
| 9 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 10 | Combustion can not continue in the absence of oxygen and certain commercially produced fire extinguishers work on this principle . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 12 | The private sector can not invest in the circumstances set out in the bill , because they need very long franchises with control of all the means of production , the track , the trains , the stations , the total business . |
| 13 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 14 | Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert . |
| 15 | No wonder people can not believe in a Devil like that ; it supports the old adage that the Devil likes nothing better than to be denied . |
| 16 | Thus there are clear cases of indirect assistance , such as ( 14 ) above ( where the bare infinitive sounds strange because " a sharp list " can not participate in the action of " cutting loose " , but rather must be conceived as providing a necessary condition for its realization ) . |
| 17 | I regret that I can not participate in the production on your track but will follow its release with interest . ’ |
| 18 | Though penguins can not fly in the air , their bodies and wings are designed for ‘ flying ’ under water . |
| 19 | Another claim is that a certain State has not become a party to a treaty , and therefore can not share in the distribution of values projected by it . |
| 20 | In other words , the null hypothesis is that phytoplankton can not stratify in the absence of a density gradient ( if waters are not shallow ) . |
| 21 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 22 | However , adenovirus rarely integrates and can not divide in the cell , so it would only be effective as long as the human cell into which it enters survives . |
| 23 | Such cross-terms can not occur in a system that directly represents a chemical reaction , and the variables represent concentrations : the concentration of one chemical species can not be directly decreased by a process in which that chemical does not take part [ 36 ] . |
| 24 | It is not to be supposed , either , that the same type of mental event can not occur in the lives of two or more individuals . |
| 25 | Not all summons forms can be used as addresses ( e.g. hey you in ( 47 ) can not occur in the slot occupied by Madam in ( 48 ) ) , although it may be that all addresses can be used as summonses ( Zwicky , 1974 : 791 ) . |
| 26 | Loss of time — can not read in the Evenings … less money for books ’ . |
| 27 | If we can not help in the analysis of concrete problems , we should keep our mouths firmly shut . |
| 28 | That can not happen in the water industry , so there must be much more effective regulation than has existed in the past . |
| 29 | He can not play in the cup or in the league games . |
| 30 | So until we know the solution we can not write in an expression for . |