Example sentences of "can not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 2 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 3 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 4 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 5 | Whereas the authentic socialist realist writer , by virtue of his/her ideological position , is able to " describe the forces working towards socialism from the inside " , the critical realist , although potentially capable in Lukacs 's terms of " grasping the new realities of the old order and of the old consciousness in their actual novelty and not as elements of disintegration of decay " can not ultimately accede to a socialist revelation of the world , trammelled as he/she is by vestiges of bourgeois ideology . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 7 | You can not not react to Dorothy Heathcote . |
| 8 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |
| 9 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 10 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 11 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 12 | At the general election we shall be justified in saying that the Conservative party can not again claim to be the party of law and order . |
| 13 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 14 | We can not rightly attribute to the Spirit any teaching which does not shed light on Jesus , or any religious experience which is not congruous with the life of Jesus . |
| 15 | The Labour Party 's future strategy can not conceivably amount to ‘ one more heave ’ or , at the other extreme , consist of liquidation and merger with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 16 | These ‘ god-like ’ qualities can not really belong to more than one being . |
| 17 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 18 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 19 | It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’ |
| 20 | It can not then go to the carer no matter how long the care has lasted . |
| 21 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 22 | As a consequence of rule 12 an order for costs can not now lead to a taxation other than on a standard basis or indemnity basis . |
| 23 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 24 | It is soon supported by words that a child can not only respond to but also make . |
| 25 | The likes of us we 've got a man behind us , but the likes of them I feel sorry for , they can not actually afford to be sick and that 's it . |
| 26 | Now it might be argued as was done by Kant , for example — that the idea of a non-arbitrary , objective , order is built into the very concept of an external object ; that one can not significantly refer to external objects qua external without acknowledging by implication the existence of such an order ; and in a sense this is of course true . |
| 27 | If Mr Sisulu senior ( and his seven fellow detainees ) are allowed to take part in political activities , his wife Albertina and their son Zwelakhe , a newspaper editor , can not realistically continue to be restricted . |
| 28 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 29 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |
| 30 | ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’ |