Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't eat damp bread . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Of course , we ca n't waste good food . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , the Really Wild Show yeah She ca n't manage normal size |
| 4 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 5 | Mr Foggerty says he ca n't devote sufficient time to it , so we 've made no progress there . |
| 6 | Well somebody else told me that I mean er er the wine connoisseurs say who would drink that stuff you ca n't drink red wine . |
| 7 | My son , who 's in his teens , ca n't do long division , simply because he was n't paying attention , presumably , at school , and he 's always used a calculator since . |
| 8 | Now does that matter , so far as being at school is concerned , if they ca n't really do proper experiments does that mean to say they ca n't do proper chemistry ? |
| 9 | Well it 's , it 's not so much a suggestion it 's more that you ca n't do multiplicational area until |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't stand bloody swearing . |
| 11 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't stand pushy food . |
| 13 | I adore you , but Demian just ca n't stand false sentiment . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't stand possessive man , ’ she said suddenly , ‘ men who wo n't let go of me , let me be myself , let me be free . |
| 15 | But it ca n't stand high compression — a major drawback to power output . |
| 16 | You ca n't grow pukka skunk because marijuana needs between six and 12 weeks of 12-hour nights to flower . |
| 17 | Now that we 're in the EC , there 's no reason why our olives and our melons and our grapes ca n't bring real prosperity . ’ |
| 18 | For the spectrum of office graphics applications , you ca n't beat OKI colour printers for superb quality output . |
| 19 | In my enormous experience , you ca n't beat liquid manure three times a week Mr Thrower . |
| 20 | Well as I say you ca n't stain varnished wood Nina . |
| 21 | ‘ I just thought ‘ I ca n't leave old Twoflower there and — ’ |
| 22 | In Children 's Drawings ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , she suggests that children become dissatisfied with their work , often between the ages of eight and ten , when they ca n't achieve visual realism . |
| 23 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 24 | Erm we , we have of course , we 've got a , we have a congress each year , which erm we , each Guild is allowed to send one delegate and so really , we always stress at the top level that erm you know , it 's you that run the Guild you ca n't blame head office , the Nat National Executive , because you 're the ones who send the people to the top , are n't you ? |
| 25 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 26 | Well , I ca n't claim complete recall but I do remember 91–92 like it was only last year ; - ) . |
| 27 | if people ca n't recognise possessive pronoun in that the it 's is short for it is , er , somebody ought to check it because it , it lets the whole thing down . |
| 28 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP Great title for an unfocussed basketball movie directed by Ron Bull Durham Shelton . |
| 29 | I ca n't see New Mill House , a long time out of the winners enclosure , being anything special on this occasion . |
| 30 | I ca n't see physical science being as useful as a materials degree . |