Example sentences of "[adj] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say that the English can not stay with their child or friend or family in the hospital . |
| 2 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 3 | It is perhaps just as well that the English can not understand Burns or they would probably also hijack him . |
| 4 | Envy and lust and wrong can not reach such moods . ’ |
| 5 | Material dependence arises because the old can not earn their living and financial arrangements must be made to see that they have an income that is adequate to their needs . |
| 6 | The old can not run , and they want the latrine , but only after Exercise are the men permitted to queue for the privilege of the latrines . |
| 7 | Does Patrick Jenkin really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) ? |
| 8 | ‘ The unemployed can not blame automation ’ |
| 9 | The arguments in Patrick Jenkin 's article ( ’ The unemployed can not blame automation ’ , 24 February , p 526 ) are identical to the way I saw things when first involved in computer-controlled machine tools over 20 years ago . |
| 10 | Does Patrick Jenkin ( The unemployed can not blame automation , 24 February , p 526 ) really believe that microelectronics holds any hope for the unemployed ? |
| 11 | Many of the youngsters unemployed can not afford to go out seeking entertainment and a television is an important part to them . |
| 12 | Wherever you go nowadays , be it swimming , the pictures , fitness centres , or pop concerts they all appreciate that the unemployed can not afford to pay the full charge . |
| 13 | ‘ The unemployed can not wait for the recovery the Tories are waiting for . |
| 14 | If something is not property , the accused can not have an intention permanently to deprive the owner of that property . |
| 15 | It exists in every civilised society so that Governments , the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position . |
| 16 | But because they are supposed to be utterly other and not-us — the barbarians outside the city — and because we the powerful can not imagine the situation of being the victims of such a war , this normality is perceived as incomprehensible . |
| 17 | Starving people in the sub-Sahara can not afford much quality , though it is fair to say that their problems are more political than strictly agricultural . |
| 18 | And the principal point of agreement is the agreement between the neurotic prohibition , which like the taboo , is something that the neurotic can not bring themselves to do , fears for the consequences if they do do it , and er , feels constrained by some irrational force er , to obey , even though it is n't rational . |
| 19 | People who are blind can not judge the colour of light , people who are totally deaf can not assess the wonder of a Mendelssohn sonata , and people whose whole experience of life has been lived in the darkness of materialism can not fully appreciate the holiness and perfection of God who dwells in light unapproachable . |
| 20 | which the damned can not know ) ; when your beloved |
| 21 | The lonely can not enjoy solitude . |
| 22 | The Northamptonshire Enterprise Agency Ltd can not accept responsibility for any inconvenience arising from errors or alterations , however caused . |
| 23 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |
| 24 | A situation exists where citizens have to alter their behaviour to ensure their safety ; children can not walk to school , it is too dangerous to ride a bicycle , and the elderly or disabled can not cross the road quickly enough . |
| 25 | Within that horizon , its doctrines may of course be affirmed and presented as true ; but the wider and more ample perspective of the study of religion in general can not permit such restrictions — though it may be engaged in by one who also , as a personal matter , adheres to a particular faith . |
| 26 | In short , we may conclude that there is no need to suppose that industrial co-operatives in particular can not become large , or even very large , and remain successful businesses and authentic co-operatives but that the need to accommodate within them satisfactory constituencies may well affect their structure . |
| 27 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 28 | The young can not learn how to make their first long journey by following their parents as swans do , for no adult eels travel east across the Atlantic from the Sargasso . |
| 29 | Yet Labour can not hope to control any debate at Westminster from which Scottish MPs are excluded , even if it should win a majority at a future election . |
| 30 | People who are blind can not judge the colour of light , people who are totally deaf can not assess the wonder of a Mendelssohn sonata , and people whose whole experience of life has been lived in the darkness of materialism can not fully appreciate the holiness and perfection of God who dwells in light unapproachable . |