Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am sorry , but I ca n't sanction holiday money . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think there 's any need to talk down to people , but you ca n't assume specialist knowledge . ’ |
| 3 | We ca n't measure transport use in cities . ’ |
| 4 | If you ca n't avoid nylon carpet spray it lightly with water to reduce any static build up . |
| 5 | Well that 's no good cos you ca n't spell sex maniac |
| 6 | ‘ People come on to the show with IQs which ca n't reach room temperature . |
| 7 | Well she ca n't do speech therapy cos she needs |
| 8 | Mummy ca n't do chain stitch . ’ |
| 9 | I 've only got three X squared plus two there but you ca n't differentiate whit respect to three X squared plus two and then say you actually done it with respect to X . |
| 10 | East African Asians told me that West Indians sometimes behave as though they are superior to Asians , because Asians are religious or because Asians ca n't speak English well . |
| 11 | If , like many of us , you ca n't lay hand son the exact title and date of publication DO NOT be deterred but add contextualising detail of the kind which will help librarians as well as researchers to locate the item eg , size ( in a great fat book ) ; colour ( bluey-green cover with photos … ) ; age ( quite old now I suppose , have n't seen it in bookshops for ages … ) . |
| 12 | Please do n't send originals as we ca n't send material back . |
| 13 | You ca n't make eye contact if you 're speaking to a piece of paper . |
| 14 | No you ca n't put travel time in can you ? |
| 15 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 16 | Fortunate I ca n't remember too much er ordinary er illnesses like er , we 'd have a cold and , and you know er and that but no , I ca n't remember chicken pox and er |
| 17 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 18 | Without this kind of back-up , you ca n't learn your craft , you ca n't get audience exposure , you ca n't get practice and more importantly , you ca n't fail … ’ |
| 19 | Any children 's savings are ignored , unless one of them has over £3,000 , in which case you ca n't get family credit for that child . |
| 20 | Any children 's savings are ignored , unless one of them has over £3,000 , in which case you ca n't get family credit for that child . |
| 21 | Any children 's savings are ignored , unless one of them has over £3,000 , in which case you ca n't get family credit for that child . |
| 22 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 23 | And your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper for her pussy , so when she slides down the banister and says like blurgh , la blah la blah loo ! |
| 24 | SOME people ca n't afford Poll Tax but those spongers who simply refuse to pay should have their names published in local papers so the community can see who the free-loaders are . |
| 25 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 26 | Yes but I ca n't receive expert evidence on that because that 's the very thing I have to decide is n't it ? |
| 27 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 28 | ‘ In Poland , the problem is that one ca n't buy toilet paper . |
| 29 | It is a bit like saying one ca n't buy sugar loose in a supermarket but only in kilogram bags . |
| 30 | She kept seeing copperplate graffiti on Stewart 's posters , ‘ You ca n't fight City Hall . ’ |