Example sentences of "can not [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't honestly say that up to now I 've thought that much about it . |
| 2 | I ca n't honestly say that it 's been a pleasure , but it has been an experience … one I most definitely do n't want to repeat ! ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't honestly believe that anyone can question whether or not Wilko should be manager . |
| 4 | I think that the point , has to be made that when we 've had a transport supplementary grant decision and settlement as poor as this one , then it really is about trying to protect and enhance the people of Lincolnshire and the road network , rather than just for once , party politics , because I ca n't honestly believe that the conservatives would actually , feel that this is a fair , reasonable settlement . |
| 5 | Burt Rutan is characteristically coy about his involvement , pointing out that many projects undertaken by his Scaled Composites company are ‘ proprietary ’ and adding : ‘ I ca n't even confirm that he ( Togo ) is a customer . ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't even prove that Newley used the phone . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't even see that the casting of renowned character actor Robert Duvall as newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer or teen heart-throb Christian Bale as spirited Jack Kelly leader of the warring newsboys is going to help this dud . |
| 8 | You ca n't even superimpose to that extent cos they 're slightly different ca n't even superimpose that my fingers ca n't superimpose cos they 're slightly different . |
| 9 | So you ca n't even lose that cos you lose your drawers . |
| 10 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 11 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 12 | You ca n't just pull that across , might look a long way out . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he continued , ‘ We ca n't just say that competition and free market are solutions . |
| 14 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 15 | They ca n't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes does n't seem important to you . |
| 16 | Or , finally , knowing you always loved him and enjoying the sense of power this gave him , he ca n't quite believe that he does n't count any more . |
| 17 | You have to be careful , you ca n't actually say that Nick represents this or that , you have to say that George thinks that he represents and sort of a kind of genetic engineering which would turn out a generation of perfect people , alright . |
| 18 | okay , you ca n't actually deny that this or that has happened . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
| 20 | David : It 's not really as bad for me because they ca n't really tell that I 'm half-caste ( this pupil in appearance looks more white than Afro-Caribbean ) like the rest of them . |
| 21 | She said huskily , ‘ Surely you ca n't really think that I had anything to do with this ? ’ |
| 22 | Chairman er ca n't really use that refers directly to the Council . |
| 23 | And you ca n't really believe that women only want your brother for his mon — ’ |
| 24 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 25 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 26 | Even if we now find it difficult to accept that these were real or substantial recompenses for the life she had chosen to live we can not reasonably question that she did . |
| 27 | Since we can not simply assume that the results from one bilingual setting must apply to all others too , we shall study two widely differing groups of bilingual children in the UK . |
| 28 | If we observe , for example , a sow confined to a stall we can not simply conclude that she is distressed without asking her rather more subtle questions . |
| 29 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 30 | It makes it clear that a shopkeeper who sells cigarettes to young people can not simply say that he did not know that he was doing so . |