Example sentences of "[adj] they can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laryngitis with hoarseness worse ( < ) in the evening ; larynx so painful they can not talk ; very sensitive to touch and cold air . |
| 2 | When the weather is very cold they can not fly at all , but can warm themselves by deflecting their wings at right angles to the Sun ( as do , for example , locusts ) . |
| 3 | Sure they can not take one big er , holiday . |
| 4 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 5 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 6 | While projects of this kind can be very impressive they can not hope to generate an increase in output from the mass of small scale farmers , as their requirement for scarce , high level management is too great . |
| 7 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 8 | If you stack rocks on top of each other make certain they can not tumble ; neither the fish , or the tank glass will appreciate a falling rock . |