Example sentences of "can not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not speak for all here , but for myself I say this . |
| 2 | Not only are these characteristics in stark contrast with the possibilities for ordinary adjectives , they can not hold for these inherently restrictive adjectives unchaperoned by an article : ( 28 ) second had roses on it Max owns best that has been discovered so far |
| 3 | If the patient is very heavy , or the carer can not manage for some other reason , the patient 's moves during the day have to be carefully planned in advance , to ensure that two people can always be present . |
| 4 | Now there can be as many as nine of the top ten in that category and as both Brian Gottfried and David Wheaton astutely pointed out , you can not legislate for that . |
| 5 | What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless ? |
| 6 | What worth is our own job if we can not feel for those who are unemployed ? |
| 7 | What comfort can we get from our own happiness if we can not feel for those who are condemned to live in misery ? |
| 8 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 9 | Bouch can not vouch for this but suggests the number of visitors might have exceeded the available accommodation which in turn put prices up . |
| 10 | I can not vouch for this . |
| 11 | ‘ But I can not ask for any more from the players than the performances they are giving me and one or two are starting to show their true form . ’ |
| 12 | You can not ask for more than that . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been knocked off by bicycle by a negligent driver and although not seriously injured , I can not work for several weeks . |
| 14 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 15 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 16 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 17 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 18 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 19 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 20 | These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age . |
| 21 | Also , it can not account for all the regions of the universe . |
| 22 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 23 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 24 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 25 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |