Example sentences of "can not [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class antagonism has undoubtedly relegated national questions far into the background , but , without the risk of lapsing into doctrinairism , it can not be categorically asserted that some particular national question can not temporarily appear in the foreground of the political drama . |
| 2 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 3 | If an arrangement is chosen that can not physically pass through its end positions without breaking the couple , then the iterative procedure will state , after a set number of attempts , that it is unable to re-establish the associations in this configuration . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Content to remain spectators , they can not reasonably complain about the way the political game is played by those willing to suffer its tedium and its tensions . |
| 7 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 8 | That re-emphasises the fact that we can not simply talk about cancelling Trident . |
| 9 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 10 | But Lyons can not simply shrug off such features as irrelevant and somehow ‘ impure ’ , for no use of English occurs without them . |
| 11 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 12 | A ‘ message ’ Christology can not simply consist in a message , a message which exists independently of the person who preached it . |
| 13 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 14 | The internal organs would become more complicated : they can not simply increase in size because surface area will not increase proportionately , so more intestinal loops and skin tufts may have arisen and , as with the Dimetrodon , bony neck frills may become heat-dissipating devices . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Denied anger has to go somewhere ; it can not simply vanish into the air . |
| 17 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Amber 's Murray Martin is working with other independents on a strategy to counter the problem : ‘ One of the basic assumptions we have to deal with is that films made in Britain can not either break into the major circuit or survive in the market place , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 21 | because human subjectivity can not ultimately exist outside a division into one of two sexes , then it is castration that finally comes to symbolise this split … . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 24 | Also , we can often see that children can use concepts that they can not yet express in English . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 26 | Dolphins ( and many other sea creatures ) can , by muscular power and their own dynamic shape , attain speeds in water which man can not yet emulate without using excessive amounts of power . |
| 27 | This saving would easily cover the cost of adjusting cars which can not already run on unleaded petrol . |
| 28 | With the two stories of Abraham in Genesis 22–23 we can not properly start with them , but must quickly trace ‘ the story so far ’ . |
| 29 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 30 | They can not both succeed in attaining their mutually exclusive goals . |