Example sentences of "[pron] can not [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not confirm or deny that . ’ |
| 2 | At school and even now , I can not add or subtract or divide easily , but I can write clear figures — this is drawing ; and I can arrange my figures neatly in line , and one sum next to the other , i.e. design . |
| 3 | Somewhere up there I can not see or hear , |
| 4 | The National Wildlife Federation warns that voluntary agreements between companies and an agency " which can not verify or enforce the reductions offers little guarantee of progress " . |
| 5 | Lice are insects which can not fly or hop . |
| 6 | She can not read or write . |
| 7 | A child is often unacquainted with the precise and specialised social functions which are conventionally ascribed to either speech or writing and thus may be confused when asked to acquire ‘ skills ’ whose functions he or she can not see or act upon . |
| 8 | The Code provides additional safeguards for juveniles , mentally handicapped persons , the deaf and those who can not speak or understand English . |
| 9 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 10 | The 62-year-old actress declared : ‘ So many children are barely alive , children who can not smile or see any more . |
| 11 | Council Houses are a valuable asset for those who can not buy or afford private rents . |
| 12 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 13 | Parents who can not attend or have been excluded should be given an opportunity to have their views represented . |
| 14 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 15 | When you can not alter or control difficult circumstances , you can control how much you allow them to affect you . |
| 16 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 17 | You can not force or dragoon yourself into a concentrated effort . |
| 18 | She is talking about an enemy which you can not see or hear or smell . ’ |
| 19 | But you can not understand or study a subject from notes alone , as too many students try to do . |
| 20 | If you can not afford or do not want new furniture , then start to attack the soft furnishings . |
| 21 | Your net salary if you are taxed under the PAYE system ( you can not spend or save money already in the tax man 's hands ) |
| 22 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 23 | It is true that we can not observe or measure directly mental processes taking place in the brain in the way that we can measure , say , blood flow via a brain scanner . |
| 24 | In fact , in every microsecond of perceptual experience there is a tension between the real as refractory , as something we can not choose or will , and the subjective as chosen and willed . |
| 25 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 26 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 27 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 28 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 29 | ‘ We can not produce or control them . |
| 30 | The answer is that we can not know or , rather , that there is no simple solution to this problem . |