Example sentences of "[noun prp] can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Gazza can not wait to be one of them again .
2 Thus , Pace argues , Corbett can not serve as the authority on which Parker J. wished to rely in Tan .
3 It is trying to assert itself politically , offering money the PLO can not match to young , educated Gazans to join the Islamist movement .
4 Of course , Miss Kenton can not hope by returning at this stage ever to retrieve those lost years , and it will be my first duty to impress this upon her when we meet .
5 The question of how it has been spent , by the first two of them at least , raises important issues of public policy , but even Holroyd can not succeed in making such matters positively en thralling .
6 Kevin Wilson was another who had a fine game ; he has developed into a player Northern Ireland can not afford to be without .
7 The reasons why CSRG can not continue in its present form include lack of funding , changes in the marketplace and a decline in support from the University of California itself .
8 Russia can not exist without the Ukrainian sugar industry , and the same can be said in regard to coal ( the Donbas ) , cereals ( the black earth belt ) , etc .
9 Russia can not afford to be flanked by newly nuclear states on its southern borders ; or to allow the ethnic strife in and between ex-Soviet republics to turn nuclear ; or to see extremists among its own fissiparous peoples demand independence on pain of nuclear terrorism .
10 The scheme is based on employer participation , TECs can not deliver without employers and their contribution , but the employers have given no guarantees and recognise none .
11 ‘ Prime minister ’ he may be but Mr Hikmatyar can not get into Kabul .
12 But Burma can not depend on the Army indefinitely .
13 This distinction between the effort of the CBHPs and the effort of communities is a useful one in that CBHPs can not take upon themselves the role of providing what a national government can not or will not provide .
14 The truth is that Blanche can not live in a realistic world .
15 Treaty in relations between the member states does not jeopardise non-member countries ' rights under the Geneva Convention of 1958 , the United Kingdom can not rely on that Convention in order to justify infringements of those rules .
16 Kendall can not rely on the likes of Barry Horne , who has not scored since the first day of the season , and youngster Billy Kenny to ease the burden on his goal-shy strikers .
17 The loss to Marxist theorising of all those elements which stress human individuality and specificity as central to the nature of experienced reality , means that Marx can not account for how we behave except as statistical averages .
18 But there is no question so difficult that Mr Kinnock can not think of a more difficult answer .
19 Hunter can not play for the Saints but Bayfield is in the second row .
20 If the Oxford can not fly for one reason or another , she will still be the only ‘ live ’ Airspeed aircraft in the world .
21 Mr Clinton can not believe in all the things that his myriad groups of supporters think he believes in , or at least he can not if he is to rescue his presidency .
22 By the end , with an extended sermon on the emptiness of individualist ethics , he is pleading for a return to the benevolence in public affairs which Thatcher can not supply by nature of having been denied her mother 's breast , given the wrong sort of potty training , etc .
23 Eastern Europe can not draw on the deep pockets of the German taxpayer ; the danger of being landed with a bill for remedying sites there is a big deterrent to foreign investors .
24 Major can not distinguish between sound advice and sycophancy .
25 But Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington can not compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain .
26 ANYONE familiar with York can not fail to be impressed by the pedestrianisation scheme which has enhanced the city in recent years .
27 When , which means , as we saw above , we shall show that increases , so the preceding BFS can not recur in this case , either , since and are uniquely determined by the basis ( and ) .
28 Philips can not improve on the price , particularly now that the lamp is available with an electronic ballast .
29 Like Flynn before him , Fonda can not stay in the town he has tamed and rides out at the fade-out into the desert .
30 The DC can not refer to any modules referred to by a DC activated via another package ( this prevents conflicting modifications )
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