Example sentences of "can not [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not walk on a cloud ! " |
| 2 | Does he realise that he can not sit on the fence on this one , and what does he intend to do about it ? |
| 3 | We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions . |
| 4 | But she knows she can not trade on the goodwill of her nation for much longer . |
| 5 | But work can not start on the course for some months . |
| 6 | The butterfly spread can be reversed ( Fig. 7.1 0(b) ) to cater for the investor who can not decide on the balance of his or her expectations . |
| 7 | Of course , that does not always happen because the judge is entitled to draw a reasonable inference from the evidence that one party was entirely to blame even though he can not decide on the basis of the evidence exactly how an accident happened . |
| 8 | I can not comment on the evidence , but the Lord Advocate has made it extremely clear that the criminal proceedings are the result of an extremely brilliant , thorough and painstaking investigation by the Scottish police services and their colleagues , to whom I also pay tribute . |
| 9 | Obviously , I can not comment on the inquiry because of those investigations . |
| 10 | We therefore can not comment on the use of supplemental oxygen in these patients . |
| 11 | They do have their problems ; they are difficult to open , you can not stand on the wing and lift them up , so you have to struggle from the ground . |
| 12 | This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek . |
| 13 | We reserve the right to refuse payment on any bet which we can not substantiate on the microfilm copy , or any bet which we have no record of . |
| 14 | But Burma can not depend on the Army indefinitely . |
| 15 | Philips can not improve on the price , particularly now that the lamp is available with an electronic ballast . |
| 16 | I can not improve on the information that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor gave in his statements to the House yesterday and in the papers supporting the Budget . |
| 17 | When there is a stay or a suspension of execution , he can not rely on the order for possession as giving him a right to possession . |
| 18 | This consists of a less affluent underclass of young males who , unlike previous generations , can not rely on the prospect of a steady job and membership of a well-integrated occupational community to nourish their sense of security and esteem . |
| 19 | However there is still a need for caution ; undertakings can not rely on the Commission adopting a rule of reason approach in every case and would therefore need to be prepared to appeal to the Court . |
| 20 | Even if the contract is terminated , the offending party can still rely on the clause if reasonable to do so , but even if the contract is affirmed , he can not rely on the term unless it is reasonable to do so . |
| 21 | you can not embark on an advertising program that is n't being funded by the higher profit made by the product |
| 22 | Flexibility is still possible in that there are in any one year at least as many shorter term visitors available which we can not feature on the Grid system . |
| 23 | Yet pupils can not get on the wavelength of the experience of others by bracketing out all aspects of their own . |
| 24 | Oh you can not get on the chair with your boots you |
| 25 | And I agree with Theresa , all of my surgery cases in this matter have been from wives saying , I can not live on the maintenance which my husband is not paying me |
| 26 | The United Kingdom therefore can not argue on the basis of the fact that article 7 can only apply to discrimination between ships if they are of different ‘ nationalities ’ in order to justify differences in treatment between natural or legal persons of different nationalities . |
| 27 | On other occasions , indeed on most occasions , we can not count on the context complementing words so closely , occasions when more precision is needed to identify the contextual features which are to be related to the conceptual meaning of the words to achieve indexical meaning . |
| 28 | When the courts intervene to control the X factor they do so in purported fulfilment of the legislative will , by delineating the boundaries of one institution 's powers from that of another : a public body adjudicating on furnished tenancies can not trespass on the territory of a different body dealing with unfurnished tenancies . |
| 29 | In London , funding of the London Wildlife Trust is in jeopardy because the 33 boroughs represented on the grants committee can not agree on a budget . |
| 30 | Now that Hunt 's committee has ducked all the technical issues and government ministers can not agree on a policy , officials inside the Department of Industry are trying to decide how tightly the government should control the type of cable system laid , what technology to recommend and who should be allowed to do what . |