Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walkers ca n't resist the call of the Cairngorms . |
| 2 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 3 | And books ca n't feed the hunger of a soul in need of a larger sense of purpose . |
| 4 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 5 | ‘ Put it over the wheat-rick , so the wind ca n't blow the flames from the hay-rick on to it ! |
| 6 | What er Newstat does though is something quite interesting he says well we all know , well I hope you all know , that there are limits on presidential power and we all know that the president ca n't direct congress , we know the president ca n't appoint anybody without consulting congress , we know the president ca n't control the supreme court , we know all these limitations but nevertheless , leaving that to one side , pushing that to one side , there are major powers here . |
| 7 | But as we have no words by which to recall those former sensations except the very word which we seek to define , or some other which , being exactly synonymous with it , requires definition as much , words can not unfold the signification of this class of names ; and we are obliged to make a direct appeal to the personal experience of the individual whom we address . |
| 8 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 9 | Orthographically irregular words can not use the GPC route , and will fail by the analogy route if there is a mismatch between the regularity of the word and its associate ( if you do n't know how to pronounce " have " , you should n't try matching it with " save " ) . |
| 10 | Words can not describe the kind of person who would do a thing like this . |
| 11 | However , a contextually prominent action can not justify the use of a surface anaphor , such as I did , yesterday . |
| 12 | Although their pulses can not penetrate the surface of the water , they reveal the tell-tale ripples of swimming fish . |
| 13 | If the plaintiff chooses ( c ) , the defendant can not satisfy the judgment by returning the goods . |
| 14 | ( e ) As we have seen , an intention to repay or substitute may be dishonest because the defendant can not replace the very thing taken , yet if he intends to return the property itself , he is not guilty of theft because he does not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 15 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 16 | Calling in Sir Bernard Tomlinson to throw together a salvage package as market forces take their toll can not replace the well resourced , experimentally oriented planning apparatus so vital to the long term health and development of a real national health service . |
| 17 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 18 | The letter continues : ’ The TEC can not address the guaranteed programmes for young and unemployed people in isolation from this economic background . |
| 19 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 20 | Announcing the initiative , Environment Secretary John Gummer warned that if the industry can not satisfy the government that they are moving towards that objective , then " we will need to move towards a legislative approach " . |
| 21 | The Uprising has shown beyond all doubt that King Husayn can not represent the Palestinian people . |
| 22 | WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Mexico 's Finance Minister flies to Washington to inform the US Government that Mexico can not meet the payments on its $80 billion foreign debt . |
| 24 | If the agreement satisfied all the requirements of a tenancy , then the agreement produced a tenancy and the parties can not alter the effect of the agreement by insisting that they only created a licence . |
| 25 | EDITOR : As we have always said it is YOUR newspaper , although not being prepared to put a name to letters [ even if the name is not for inclusion ] means authors can not collect the £25 Star Letter prize . |
| 26 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 27 | The contents of this chapter can not describe the tax position on each transfer ; they can only draw attention to the possible heads of charge and reliefs available in respect of each of them . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the experiment can not distinguish the two possibilities to this accuracy . |
| 29 | Severe headache sometimes and the eyes can not stand the light . |
| 30 | However , whatever that ability may be , inspectors can not avoid the criticism that they fail to follow many of the practices that ensure rigour in research . |