Example sentences of "[pron] can not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . ’ |
| 2 | But I can not honestly say that I find such an analysis applicable to my attitude towards the school authorities . |
| 3 | I can not altogether agree with Ruskin . |
| 4 | I live on the banks of the Lea and I can not properly tell the House what an amazing joy it is to wake up every morning and look over the marshes . |
| 5 | I can not properly order that the children be returned to the care and control of the petitioner when the respondent has equal rights to the child . |
| 6 | They are different men here , men I can not properly understand , whom I envy and despise . |
| 7 | You see I can not not see it |
| 8 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , I want to count how many working-class students there are in the college , I can not just go ahead and do it . |
| 10 | I can not yet rest . |
| 11 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 12 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not simply order lamb chops . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 15 | That the categorical imperative bids me act in a particular way follows from the impossibility of avoiding the action without acting on a maxim I can not thus will universalised . |
| 16 | Tearing my throat out , so I can not even scream . |
| 17 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 18 | I can not even collect tickets . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |
| 20 | I can not even tell you how my work will be though I know very certainly that it will demand long attention if I am to pass Responsions and get a scholarship . |
| 21 | I can not even press for its performance , since a conspiracy has been formed to produce it , if it must be produced , extremely badly and thus ruin it . |
| 22 | In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll . |
| 23 | When I can not even remember the names of the women I slept with ? |
| 24 | In actual fact , I can not even remember signing them ! |
| 25 | I can not even hear the words , ’ point of order ’ . |
| 26 | How can I give you a dress allowance when I can not even afford to pay the rent on this flat ? ’ |
| 27 | Lucy — listen ! — I can not even use my own words to call to you . |
| 28 | I can not even find out how many charters will flow from the original one . |
| 29 | That he was a good and strong swimmer I assumed , because his American youth had familiarized him with the sea and coastal sailing ; but , owing to his agoraphobia , I can not exactly imagine him enjoying a high dive . |
| 30 | ‘ I had periods , ’ though upon reflection , the bleeding does seem mean and scarce , and I can not exactly remember my last period . |