Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Ca n't change the ten , " he said . |
| 2 | We ca n't ignore the next year ahead . |
| 3 | Jonathan Rickford , British Telecom 's director of government relations , said in a telephone briefing from Washington , ‘ There has to be a little give and take … there 's no reason we ca n't resolve the whole thing . ’ |
| 4 | ( PS The Editor 's brain ca n't manage the first teaser . |
| 5 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |
| 6 | But we ca n't start the serious business until the brandy arrives . |
| 7 | ‘ Educationists , as you call them , ca n't measure the full potential because they have such primitive tools and methods of assessment . |
| 8 | You ca n't wash the white . |
| 9 | The answer is nothing — great Champagne is without equal and you ca n't reproduce the unique climate and soil conditions of its birthplace anywhere else in the world . |
| 10 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 11 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 12 | I ca n't reach the big one . |
| 13 | And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two . |
| 14 | The mere mention of the biting in Anna 's manuscript record of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ variants is enough to pull the reader back into The Possessed , and he ca n't experience the sudden fierce tug of that novel without realizing simultaneously that the whole ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter belongs elsewhere , to a different masterpiece . |
| 15 | You just ca n't level the same accusation at Rickenbacker , since they 've always made good stuff . |
| 16 | He is annoyed that the sun ca n't do the simple task of reviving this man who has already got his limbs , is fully nerved and is even still warm . |
| 17 | He wrote ‘ 14th ’ , looked at his work and then said to me , ‘ I ca n't do the 14th . ’ |
| 18 | They ca n't do the same for ads costing £2 million . ’ |
| 19 | There is no reason why you ca n't do the same exercises each day , but obviously increasing the amount gently . |
| 20 | But , the fact is you can read over it , you can study it in a very literary way , you just ca n't do the same thing with Johnson . |
| 21 | ‘ In my opinion they ca n't stage the 1995 World Cup . |
| 22 | You ca n't separate the two because of the nature of the dispute . |
| 23 | I ca n't stand the absolute darkness . |
| 24 | I ca n't stand the bloody things myself . ’ |
| 25 | Ca n't stand the little shit , personally . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't stand the false officers and their fancy women a moment longer . |
| 27 | Others quite obviously ca n't stand the repeated and endless questioning . |
| 28 | I ca n't stand the sweet saccharin in the lemonade ! |
| 29 | Well I remember I like to take a while I ca n't stand the most of them . |
| 30 | Rainbow ca n't tell the two groups apart . |