Example sentences of "can not [verb] or [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system thus can not create or destroy energy . |
| 2 | The practical effect of the amendment is to make it clear that an RFL can not supervise or manage the office of a multi-national practice , except where no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised from the office or supervised from it . |
| 3 | The Code provides additional safeguards for juveniles , mentally handicapped persons , the deaf and those who can not speak or understand English . |
| 4 | Any one investor or writer can not hold or sell more than 1,000 contracts of any one series of a particular class or 2,000 contracts in all the series of any particular class . |
| 5 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 7 | The National Wildlife Federation warns that voluntary agreements between companies and an agency " which can not verify or enforce the reductions offers little guarantee of progress " . |
| 8 | In fact , in every microsecond of perceptual experience there is a tension between the real as refractory , as something we can not choose or will , and the subjective as chosen and willed . |
| 9 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 10 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 11 | It can not eat or drink . |
| 12 | A character who is held fast can not move or fight , and is treated as prone . |
| 13 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 14 | Equipment can not think or solve problems ; humans can . |
| 15 | Here they are totally secure , for though the orcs can splash across the Nimrodel — ‘ curse their foul feet in its clean water ! ’ says Haldir — it seems they can not wade or swim the Silverlode . |
| 16 | All too often , when I visit successful schemes throughout the country , I find that they are about to announce that they can not carry on , or that they can not diversify or increase the take-up because the Government have not provided any money . |
| 17 | It is true that we can not observe or measure directly mental processes taking place in the brain in the way that we can measure , say , blood flow via a brain scanner . |
| 18 | Indeed the only additional effect of a child being a ward of court stems from its status as such and not from the inherent jurisdiction , for example a ward of court can not marry or leave the jurisdiction without the consent of the court and no ‘ important ’ or ‘ major ’ step in a ward 's life can be taken without that consent . |
| 19 | In the way of household appliances Joan Hubbard has a single tub washing machine ( one that can not rinse or dry the clothes ) , a vacuum cleaner and a fridge . |
| 20 | A retailer who supplies goods to consumers can not exclude or restrict liability for breach of the implied terms , but the retailer 's supplier may exclude liability , if the exclusion satisfies the test of reasonableness . |
| 21 | Where the Act applies a reasonableness test it generally provides that a party can not exclude or restrict liability " except in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss2 , 3 , 4 ) or that liability can be excluded or restricted " but only in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss6 , 7 ) . |
| 22 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 23 | The essential difference between an equitable charge and a mortgage is as regards remedies ; since a charge , unlike the mortgage , does not involve a conveyance of a proprietary interest , a chargee can not foreclose or take possession . |
| 24 | This is not to say that the English can not absorb or debate French or other foreign ideas . |
| 25 | ‘ I can not confirm or deny that . ’ |
| 26 | And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much . |
| 27 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 28 | When you can not alter or control difficult circumstances , you can control how much you allow them to affect you . |
| 29 | People can not smell or touch each other , so new devices are needed to give the impression that people are in the room . |
| 30 | Unfortunately these findings can not support or reject the reservations held by critics of the scheme . |