Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure she ca n't do justice to your designs . |
| 2 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 3 | I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue . |
| 4 | ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort . |
| 5 | WHAT sort of country is it where we are told we ca n't pay tribute to our heroes ? |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , Annie , you ca n't tell lies to old liars . ’ |
| 7 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 8 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 9 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 10 | I ca n't make love to you the way I want to — not here . |
| 11 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 13 | Erm in so that it 's our fault really that we ca n't give work to our our er people . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't give prominence to everything , ’ he says . |
| 15 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 16 | ‘ I do listen to contemporary music but it tends to be electronic stuff that I ca n't put names to . |
| 17 | And install a cattle trough which is , as far as we ho as far as we believe , vandal-proof , in that it 'll be a self-filling c er cistern filled cattle trough which the , the erm the , the ball float is actually contained in a erm a metal box so you ca n't get access to it . |
| 18 | A ninety day account you ca n't get access to . |
| 19 | They ca n't take children to the school door . |
| 20 | K : ‘ The evenings are a very special time but I ca n't take Chloe to the park because there is a hostel for down-and-outs by it and they sit on the park benches drinking and shouting abuse . |
| 21 | Ca n't abide traitors to class or country . ’ |
| 22 | YOU CA N'T PROVIDE HOMECARE TO THE HOMELESS |
| 23 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , however you can not send mail to yourself . |
| 24 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 25 | Mr Parkinson told representatives : ‘ Railways can not deliver goods to Britain 's high street shops . |
| 26 | On one hand we know that the employees can not make changes to contacts without agreements . |
| 27 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 28 | Interestingly , previous studies have shown that site-specific dephosphorylation in the C-terminal region of c-Jun in response to mitogenic stimuli converts the protein from a form that can not bind DNA to a form that can ( 15 , 16 ) . |
| 29 | A brief summary of the arthropods can not do justice to all the fascinating specialized groups — sea spiders and mites for example — that have an incomplete fossil record . |
| 30 | Indeed , so diverse are the pleasures awaiting you at Craigendarroch , I feel a letter alone can not do justice to them … |