Example sentences of "[subord] they can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 2 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 3 | More and more people in South Africa want to go where they ca n't hear the screaming . |
| 4 | ‘ They wo n't live where they ca n't get food and comfort . |
| 5 | When the Little Gidding community was set up , Nicholas Ferrar declared , ‘ Since the great things of the earth vanish and come to nought , let us set our desires and designs where they can not fail . ’ |
| 6 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 7 | The parties therefore need to have agreed that , where they can not agree on the identity of an expert , the appointment may be made by a third party . |
| 8 | Doctors are recognising increasingly that , although they ca n't explain it , healing brings positive results ’ . |
| 9 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 10 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 11 | Although they can not add points to their own club they can take points away from the others by finishing ahead of their rivals . |
| 12 | These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age . |
| 13 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 14 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 15 | Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds . |
| 16 | Just to illustrate how important this thing is , you 've probably all come across and it really irritates me , you see people interviewing people on television and they 've got their clipboard there and they 've obviously got a prepared question so they ca n't falter and fine , that means they 've prepared it . |
| 17 | Then you slide the inner wall across and use it to pin them against the side of the cage so they ca n't move or fight . |
| 18 | It 's best to approach an animal with the wind blowing into your face so they ca n't pick up your scent . |
| 19 | The boats are designed with weights in the keel so they ca n't capsize . |
| 20 | As strawberries ripen , push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they ca n't rot on the soil . |
| 21 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 22 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 23 | They have no money , so they have no accommodation , so they ca n't find a job . |
| 24 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 25 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 26 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 27 | They do n't have electrical power , so they ca n't use a telegraph . ’ |
| 28 | Some clients might put forward the excuse that there is really nothing that they avoid and so they can not set themselves any homework tasks . |
| 29 | The eyes of almost all sharks and rays lack cone cells , so they can not perceive colour . |
| 30 | A favourite method of torment sees the bogie leap on its victim 's back as they travel alone at night on a country road , clasping hard hands over the person 's eyes so they can not see . |