Example sentences of "can [not/n't] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't have the other kind cos the other kind 's our Gary 's . |
| 2 | Those who miss the lecture can see it later and those who attend the course in years to come can at least have the video lecture even if they ca n't have the real thing . |
| 3 | I ca n't have the Egyptian belief though . |
| 4 | Which I think would be a good idea if we got it because I do n't know about you but I 'm always having arguments with people who say oh we ca n't have the whole country covered in windmills and |
| 5 | No you ca n't have the whole roll . |
| 6 | I feel deprived if I ca n't have the same as everyone else ; |
| 7 | I 'll show you , you ca n't have the double shake one . |
| 8 | Oh well Gary ca n't have the brown one cos that 's his anyway . |
| 9 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 10 | For although we can be fairly sure that the recorded homicide figure is reasonably valid , we can not have the same confidence in the data on occupationally related deaths . |
| 11 | We can not have the voluptuous strengths of new technology , but books have the attraction of maturity . |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown said : ‘ The fact remains that we can not have the social chapter if the Maastricht Bill is destroyed . |