Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can not deduce that one or other party was to blame he can not send them both away empty-handed but must find that both contributed ( as happened in Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society , Wallace v Richards ( Leicester ) Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1472 . |
| 2 | It 's a strange expression , but non , I can not tell you that . |
| 3 | ‘ I have so much to say that I can not tell you half in a letter . |
| 4 | I can not tell you any more . |
| 5 | However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner . |
| 6 | as Steel-Maitland reported to Law in 1914 : " sunderland : He says he can not manage thee distant meetings . |
| 7 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 8 | You can keep a people ignorant but you can not make them ignorant — ‘ Tom Paine ? ’ |
| 9 | It can not make you younger . ’ |
| 10 | And the other one is , now this is something I heard on erm , Radio F M yesterday , where apparently Richard Strauss was challenged about the complexity of r of a piece of work , and er , he responding by saying , the devil I can not make it simpler . |
| 11 | Lastly , if the offence be not punishable in the Star-Chamber , the prohibition of it by proclamation can not make it punishable there : and after this resolution , no proclamation imposing fine and imprisonment was afterwards made , & c . |
| 12 | I feel I can not mention them all yet again , much as I should like to . |
| 13 | As Locke says , ‘ in some of our ideas there are certain relations , habitudes and connections , so visibly included in the nature of the ideas themselves , that we can not conceive them separable from them , by any power whatsoever ’ . |
| 14 | Mandy Merck says : ‘ To associate Bill Clinton with a known gay activist like myself can not do him vast favours in large parts of homophobic America . ’ |
| 15 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
| 16 | Of course , the Government can not do it all alone . |
| 17 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 18 | Studies based on states ‘ can not give us that understanding we seek of world society ’ either within or between states ( 1972 , pp.19 , 20 ) . |
| 19 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 20 | However , if one does not know the theory , then another problem-solving technique comes into play : if you can not prove it true , then try to prove it false . |
| 21 | He sat by his mother 's bed , biting the skin at the side of his nails , and thought that of all the grudges you bear , the grudges you bear against your parents are the ones you live with always — you can not fight them any more than you can fight heat or cold or some virulent infection in the blood . |
| 22 | We can not explore them all . |
| 23 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
| 24 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 25 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
| 26 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 27 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 28 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 29 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 30 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |