Example sentences of "can not [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said earlier , one can not switch off the tap and ban tobacco . |
| 2 | A power to carry out improvements will not usually entitle a landlord to replace existing buildings with buildings in which the tenant can not carry on the business permitted under the lease ( Leathwoods Ltd v Total Oil ( Great Britain ) Ltd [ 1985 ] 2 EGLR 237 ) . |
| 3 | The sender can not carry out the action referred to . |
| 4 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 5 | When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors . |
| 6 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 7 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 8 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 9 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 10 | Although Humphrey emphasises that one can not rule out the possibility of auto workers being a conservative force in the future , he does demonstrate that , at this particular historical-political conjuncture , their militant action provided a catalyst for change for the working class . |
| 11 | But as the 5' ends of these transcripts have not been mapped , we can not rule out the possibility that transcription is initiated from a single site and that the variability is generated through differential splicing alone . |
| 12 | Thus , we can not rule out the possibility that the increased risk of coronary heart disease among young men with no teeth may have been related to previous dental decay . |
| 13 | However , one can not rule out the possibility that certain other new parties may appear . |
| 14 | Electron microscopy of intestinal biopsies was not done in our study , thus we can not rule out the possibility that microsporidia were present . |
| 15 | These data indicate a half life of Β 1 integrins on HT-29 cells of about 20–24 hours under these experimental conditions , but we can not rule out the probablity that in the presence of DMJ the turnover rate of these adhesion receptors differs from that of untreated cells . |
| 16 | As we did not perform endoscopy in this control group , we can not rule out the inclusion of a few patients with gastritis . |
| 17 | President Clinton says he can not rule out the possibility of further action against Iraq following the row over the UN 's role as observer . |
| 18 | Taken together , these results strongly suggest that the DNA-PK phosphorylates Jun-Core at Ser-249 , although at this point , we can not rule out the possibility that the kinase phosphorylates a flanking residue(s) . |
| 19 | Even if a document such as a catalogue or price list is not an offer in law , there is no reason why it can not set out the terms of the offer , for instance by indicating that the party who issues it will only contract on those terms . |
| 20 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 21 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 22 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 23 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 24 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 25 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 26 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 27 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 28 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 29 | Council leader Michael Carr said : ‘ We can not turn down the opportunity of extra resources for areas of particular need . |
| 30 | He urged Leclerc to compromise : ‘ You can not put back the past : there is a new situation . ’ |