Example sentences of "can not help " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 2 | It is not thus , one can not help feeling , that the serious artist addresses a fellow practitioner . |
| 3 | The trouble with this manoeuvre is that it can not help but demote poetry . |
| 4 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 5 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 6 | We can not help it . |
| 7 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 8 | The housing market is the worst seen for 25 years , and a 15 per cent base rate and rising mortgage rates can not help . |
| 9 | The Labour Party 's lead in the polls and the doubts which the Conservatives themselves can not help feeling about the state of the economy , both made the audience in the Winter Gardens anxious to demonstrate unity by giving standing ovations to the architects of the Government 's economic policy . |
| 10 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 11 | That scenario can be distinguished from another which may nevertheless overlap and converge with it : the necessary identifications of male bonding — ‘ I desire to be like you ’ — produce an intensity of admiration some of which just can not help but transform into deviant desire for , rather than just honourable imitation of , ‘ man 's ’ most significant other ( i.e. man ) . |
| 12 | Can not help feeling Truffaut 's real talent lies in desserts : the conjuring up of trifles , and that what I want from cinema screen is more like roast beef . |
| 13 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 14 | I can not help it . |
| 15 | For I think you can not help pondering on our meeting last night . |
| 16 | Because of the better opportunities in the States emigration from the West Indies was common at this time , and one can not help wondering how many more outstanding players might have graced their cricket had their parents not left . |
| 17 | Here radiocarbon can not help . |
| 18 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is a foolish idea , but one can not help thinking that the mortal remains can still feel when the immortal soul is gone . |
| 20 | One can not help but wonder whether these taboos originally had another meaning . |
| 21 | Of course , some dieters say they can not help bingeing on such foods . |
| 22 | I am a wicked woman , she thought , to speak to my mother , who is eighty-nine years old and can not help herself , in that way . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 24 | I have things to offer her that she can not help but want . |
| 25 | Reynard can not help but be cautious about this information , despite its apparent supernatural origin , or perhaps because of it . |
| 26 | However , the horse in captivity usually can not help itself in anxiety provoking situations : it is dependent upon people for its reduction in anxiety ; it relies upon people for its needs . |
| 27 | If you can not help me , there is only one way out . |
| 28 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 29 | However , it does n't matter who you are , for if you have an ounce of history in your soul you can not help regarding the Masters as something special . |
| 30 | By the same token , I can not help wondering what will be the result of a survey among half the 2,500 members of the British Psychological Society to establish how many of them have had sexual relations with their clients . |