Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 2 | I do not think we can profitably continue Question Time . |
| 3 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 4 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 5 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 6 | I do not think one can be a complete relativist in art . |
| 7 | I do not think anyone can tell you how to create an advertisement . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ I would sit at Westminster for the time being , but I do not think you can do both . |
| 9 | ‘ Jane Eyre , you need not think you can succeed in getting out of the room like this . |
| 10 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 11 | The issue is philosophical , but it is so central to the analysis of behaviour that I do not think it can be avoided . |
| 12 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 13 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 14 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 15 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
| 16 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 17 | I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea … |
| 18 | I do not think I can do any more . |
| 19 | Now , we were due to finish at four o'clock but I 'm not suggesting we can get through all the business if we carry on . |
| 20 | There are towns and cities along our route which boast the best ale houses in the land , and whilst we can not linger we can , I am sure , find the time to slake a thirst or two that the ice and snow have worked up in us . |
| 21 | They must not know what can be used against anyone , for it might be us . ’ |
| 22 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 23 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 24 | If jade is not polished it can not be made worth anything . |
| 25 | What comes across , to us , is that workers , on the whole , do not feel they can change the principal features of their world of work … |
| 26 | First , regretfully , we do not feel we can enter into an open-ended commitment to fund the shortfall in section eleven . |
| 27 | Also , there is the situation where a wife may not feel she can really give her husband a present because the funds she would be spending would actually be his . |
| 28 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents . |
| 29 | Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave . |