Example sentences of "[prep] it can [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many situations laws which violate human rights and oppress the population or sections of it can not be broken without endangering the stability or even the very survival of relatively just institutions . |
| 2 | Although there is enough food there to feed 800,000 starving people for one month , most of it can not get through because of looters and bandits . |
| 3 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 4 | It 's , really th as I say , the design is all down to the size but it it 's because of the snow fall that could go in , that can li th obviously because it 's sloped like it can nae lie on it but |
| 5 | Again , the uncertainty involved in investigative work and the stress associated with it can not be emphasized enough . |
| 6 | Those who can not allow themselves to experience the pain and the guilt that goes with it can not move through to acceptance and therefore some more creative response . |
| 7 | Finally , Wittgenstein makes the point that if the language is ever to be used for communication , the terms in it can not get their meanings from objects private to one user of the language . |
| 8 | Bomb hoax — placing imitation bomb in shop — whether offence so serious that a non-custodial sentence for it can not be justified |
| 9 | Though the information given is believed to be correct , responsibility for it can not be accepted . |
| 10 | But what he does mean by it can not be identified , at least in any simple way , with the actual beliefs or attitudes which caused it . |