Example sentences of "can not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain can not match the French achievement and in some subjects the number of people undergoing vocational training has declined . |
| 2 | Petrol engines also now need fuel injection , as well as electronic engine management systems and expensive catalytic converters to meet exhaust regulations , and even then they can not match the lean-burn diesel for most emissions . |
| 3 | Expert systems can not perform the full range of reasoning strategies handled by the human brain and therefore do not replace human experts rather they are complementary to human expertise . |
| 4 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 5 | And the ensuing battle , of which all Christians are aware in their experience , means either that they can not achieve the good intentions they have or , if the Greek is taken in another sense , that the presence of the mighty Spirit prevents them doing what , if they followed the dictates of mere self-will , they otherwise would ( Gal.5:17 ) . |
| 6 | Selecting a value for γ 1 can not achieve the same result because such a policy leaves the distinction between an aggregate and a relative demand shock no less important than before : a positive relative demand shock will raise current prices above expected future ones ; a positive aggregate demand shock will not . |
| 7 | It follows that LTP can not achieve the maximum strength of which a synapse is capable : the potential for a further short-term increase is always held in reserve . |
| 8 | I can not applaud the rosy vision of a senior colleague whose spirited defence of grading ( and rejection of profiles ) climaxed as follows : |
| 9 | I can not tell the hon. Gentleman now what my attitude will be at the end of a meeting that is due to take place on Wednesday because the whole purpose of that meeting is for negotiations to take place . |
| 10 | But even Close can not answer the crucial question . |
| 11 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is because , though we can consciously trace the outline of the fear , it 68 CREATIVE WRITING reaches so far into the hidden recesses of our minds that we can not control the involuntary response . |
| 13 | He fears that his libidinal impulses and those of other people can not control the aggressive impulses sufficiently to prevent utter chaos and destruction . |
| 14 | They can not control the detailed processes . |
| 15 | Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time . |
| 16 | While we must support family rooms in those pubs which have the space and can provide suitable amusement for the little angels , this can not remain the only answer to the problem . |
| 17 | Yet this can not disguise the shifting assessment of US interests which has already seen Bonn replace London as the crucial European relationship . |
| 18 | A difference in word form signals a difference in meaning , so two different forms can not carry the selfsame meaning . |
| 19 | But technological change alone can not explain the many strategies for reform which the Thatcher Government has inspired . |
| 20 | That contextual modulation of the general sense of dog can not explain the specific interpretation in 22 is shown by the lack of a parallel specific interpretation of canine ( in its jocular use as a noun ) when it is substituted for dog : |
| 21 | However , such a mechanism can not explain the apparent quantal release of calcium by purified IP 3 Rs reconstituted into liposomes . |
| 22 | Our findings can not explain the higher overall prevalence of simple renal cysts in men . |
| 23 | We can not explain the special responsibilities of political office , therefore , if we try to build these directly from ordinary principles of private morality . |
| 24 | Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime . |
| 25 | But plate tectonics they say , can not explain the immense diversity of land formation and exotic arrangement of rock in western North America . |
| 26 | The need to recognize species , however , can not explain the bizarre development of sexual characters . |
| 27 | But the myriad electronic images and printed words that pour in daily from the Balkan war zone can not convey the whole truth about what is going on there . |
| 28 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 29 | We can not entertain the simplistic notion of reading as a process which proceeds by decoding the message , in real time , from one level to another . |
| 30 | With regard to the change to be made in the style of the elevations , I can not entertain the smallest doubt that an architect of your known talent and ability will find it an easy task to design an elevation in the Italian or Classic style … |