Example sentences of "can not [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaatjes , who has given up his South African citizenship but can not compete for the United States until he has completed his five-year residential period next year , is the second-fastest man in the race behind Yakov Tolstikov , but his recent form is better than that of the Siberian runner . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not speak for the other 33 countries who are not here , but as for me , I would say if this happened in 1990 it would be good , ’ he added . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not speak for the gods , but for myself I say this . |
| 4 | While we are happy to answer any queries about our own products , we can not answer for the content of other publisher 's works . |
| 5 | Each Home Secretary has in turn drawn back from taking the most obvious and practical steps with the excuse that they can not legislate for the judiciary — its independence is inviolable : |
| 6 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 7 | Private health insurance may help some elderly people to gain access to hospital treatment more quickly than would otherwise be the case , although there seems little justification for a National Health Service which can not cater for the needs of people in acute pain or discomfort as and when necessary . |
| 8 | But they are banned from party membership and can not vote for the party at election time . |
| 9 | I can not vote for the banning of fox hunting on county council land as I see this as another attempt to limit freedom of choice . |
| 10 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 11 | She can not feel for the child she hurts . |
| 12 | It therefore may be felt that the thesis can not serve for the analysis of political authority . |
| 13 | Explanatory models which serve for one can not serve for the other . |
| 14 | Although the money MI6 has provided has given him access to Western luxuries , they can not compensate for the fact that he will never see his motherland again . |
| 15 | In general , married women can not qualify for the allowance , but there are some exceptions to this rule , so if in doubt enquire at the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 16 | In Britain , however , patients on life-support machines or in a ‘ permanent vegetative state ’ can not ask for the machine to be switched off . |
| 17 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 18 | The development of professional competence however paramountly desirable can not substitute for the academic element in language courses . |
| 19 | In the final analysis , one can not prescribe for the whole of constitutional development — to some extent , one can do no more than describe and speculate . |
| 20 | Hunter can not play for the Saints but Bayfield is in the second row . |
| 21 | He was referring to Argentine players with clubs abroad who , according to local laws , can not play for the Pumas . |
| 22 | He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry . |
| 23 | Can not wait for the end . |
| 24 | Like the golfer who hits his one decent shot on the eighteenth hole and can not wait for the following weekend 's game , I felt light of heart with the warm promise of another evening in the company of the delightful Sally Drayton . |
| 25 | He can not wait for the proposed exchange of animals . |
| 26 | ‘ The unemployed can not wait for the recovery the Tories are waiting for . |
| 27 | This , however , is not an adequate explanation because it can not account for the kind of statement made by the apprentice of his appreciation of the grandeur of work that was quoted by Willis ( 1976 ) and repeated earlier in this paper . |
| 28 | They can not account for the artistry of the individual practitioner . |
| 29 | But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality . |
| 30 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |