Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be . |
| 2 | We can not separate power from sex . |
| 3 | TCGA 1992 , s69(1) deems the trust to be a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom ; 3. the trust is therefore outside the UK capital gains tax regime and the Revenue can not collect tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87(4) . |
| 4 | Obviously you can not wage war without taxing . |
| 5 | I just can not stand lack of consideration for others : shown by people who park their cars so close that you have to slide in sideways — cleaning both cars with your clothes as you squeeze through the 2in space left for opening the door . |
| 6 | We have forgotten how to read the winds or easily find directions from the stars ; we do not know any more how to read the landscape , and you , Creggan , can not recognize friend from enemy among our own kind . |
| 7 | Conventional double-glazing cuts heat loss by conduction , but can not prevent loss by radiation . |
| 8 | Literary analysis can not extrapolate content from form , and form is determined not by content but by other forms . |
| 9 | The Act also stipulates that a manufacturer 's guarantee can not exclude liability for damage caused or loss suffered as a result of the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 10 | To summarise the exposition so far , a fiduciary can not exclude liability for fraud , deliberate breach of duty and possibly gross negligence . |
| 11 | The occupier can not exclude liability for death or personal injuries caused by negligence ( s. 2(1) ) . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 13 | A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way : |
| 14 | The examiner can not give credit for irrelevancy , because that would be unfair to others who have answered only the question that they were asked . |
| 15 | It is based on the assumption that the sacred is better than the secular , that the Church is essentially European and only universal by implication , that celibacy is better than marriage , that belief can not go hand in hand with doubt , that the clerical state is more sublime than the lay , and hence that women are excluded from belonging at the level at which this belonging is most valued . |
| 16 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 17 | The moral of these cases is that journalists can not avoid liability for defamation merely by avoiding the naming of names . |
| 18 | I refer to your letter dated 6 July 1993 and would advise that after consideration , I have decided that I can not grant permission for day release . |
| 19 | What , then , of the arguments of the sceptics that we can not claim knowledge about reality ? |
| 20 | As the School can not accept responsibility for loss , parents are advised to have the appropriate insurance . |
| 21 | ‘ However , the game is not yet over and , if you 'll accept my apologies , we still can not discern friend from foe . ’ |
| 22 | Looking to the future however some significant studies in the storage of electricity must be made before solar generation — or any of the other renewable techniques which can not produce power on demand — will really come into its own . |
| 23 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 24 | He has been careful to confine his biggest tax penalties to those ‘ trapped ’ salaried employees who can not substitute leisure for work , while giving the self-employed special dispensation from higher National Insurance contributions . |
| 25 | One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease . |
| 26 | If people can not heat water in winter , they will not wash . |
| 27 | Talk about ‘ forging a new language ’ to describe new experiences forgets that an old language can sometimes express novelty better than any other ; and the case fails to notice , too , that life depends on contrasts : that you can not have informality without formality , bluntness without courtesy , indecorum without decorum . |
| 28 | With the usual kindly swat , and again directing his intellectual energy towards moral concerns , Johnson replies , ‘ No sir , he can not have pleasure in music , at least no power of producing music ; for he who can produce music may let it alone ; he who can play upon a fiddle may break it : such a man is not a machine . ’ |
| 29 | In those types of applications those types of systems , we can not afford inavailability of information we need to invest significant sums of money if fault tolerant hardware in mirrored disks in duplex networks . |
| 30 | Amnesty International declared : " Governments can not brush rape in custody aside as a lesser abuse or isolated act . |