Example sentences of "[Wh pn] can [not/n't] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's a man who 's very good-looking , whose very name is enough to get women in an audience squealing with delight but who ca n't bear the thought of being a sex symbol . |
| 2 | There are a lot of players at the moment who ca n't make the step from club to international rugby ’ . |
| 3 | The couple who ca n't kick the habit . |
| 4 | They are prolific meeting-goers who ca n't do the job themselves and some of them will become consultants later in their careers . ’ |
| 5 | No thanks , I 'm trying to give them up : at IBM Corp , writes the Wall Street Journal , RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp chief executive Louis Gerstner ‘ may find some eerie parallels between RJS 's chief product , cigarettes , and IBM 's leading product , mainframes — both are high profit margin products with slumping sales that are sold mostly to long-time customers who ca n't break the habit , ’ it says . |
| 6 | Show me any homebuilder who ca n't say the same thing about his project , but the finish-it-in-thirty-days-using-only-domestic-handtools ! brochures never tell you that , nor that it may take you weeks just to create the right kind of workplace in which to build your masterpiece . |
| 7 | It 's only you who ca n't follow the play . |
| 8 | ‘ Why is it that you 're the only person in the entire world who ca n't follow the instructions on a jar of instant coffee ? |
| 9 | You chose to believe a stinking little rat who ca n't take the fact that a woman might just be better at his job than he is ! ’ |
| 10 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 11 | There may also be good news for those who ca n't afford the average £70 cross-Channel fare for a car and five adults . |
| 12 | I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ? |
| 13 | It would , they say , lessen the burden on hard-up viewers who ca n't afford the eighty odd pounds , I think it 's eighty three pounds is n't it for a television li a colour television licence now ? |
| 14 | And even those MG enthusiasts who ca n't afford the new model can drive their older classics with a new pride ; after all , the MGB is the car that refused to die . |
| 15 | Only then do you understand the heartache of women whose pregnancies end in disaster or those who ca n't have the baby they want . |
| 16 | Only then do you understand the heartache of women whose pregnancies end in disaster or those who ca n't have the baby they want . |
| 17 | What choice have you given the patients who ca n't use the six other wards that you 've closed down ? |
| 18 | Bud-chugging Dan turned John Goodman into a huge ( ha ha ) star , a remarkable portrayal of the sit-com hubby — neither a blithering , henpecked twerp who ca n't work the dishwasher , nor a big-mouthed house-yob , he is still dogged with outdated gender-expectations and prefers the company of motorbikes and poker-buddies . |
| 19 | The soul pupa opens its eyes very widely , the pupils dilated with terror , and the horror of its own death is reflected in the retinas — scenes of terrible demise reveal themselves to the character , who can not avoid the gaze . |
| 20 | My present feeling is that any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody had better confine his criticism to prose and leave the discussion of verse to those who understand something about it … . |
| 21 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 22 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 23 | The central character , Fonda 's part , is a writer of television commercials who can not stand the pressure of the effect it is having on his wife Sally ( played by Susan Strasberg ) and their marriage . |
| 24 | The undertrial population , too , mainly consists of the most disadvantaged sections of society , who can not pay the sureties demanded for bail . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) shakes his head , but he should come to my constituency and I will introduce him to people who can not pay the poll tax because they simply do not have the money . |
| 26 | They have been responsible locally , particularly in areas of the highest deprivation , and they are paying surcharges to local councils of £20 , £50 , £70 and more a year for those who can not pay the poll tax . |
| 27 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 28 | He links this to the act of consciousness raising , which I consider presents the greatest problem for the insider who can not leave the field or return to academia . |
| 29 | and workers made redundant since nineteen eighty nine , huge rises in water charges and the disconnection of water supplies to ordinary people and their families who can not meet the new high charges for water . |
| 30 | Operations centre around computer clubs and groups of enthusiasts who can not resist the challenge of copying something designed to be uncopiable ( see Box ) . |