Example sentences of "can not [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) . |
| 2 | The view might be held that s3 has no application to such a clause , because s3 only applies to clauses under which the proferens purports to be entitled to a performance diffferent from that reasonably expected , whereas the effect of the clause quoted above is to define the performance which may reasonably be expected of the seller , so that the buyer can not reasonably expect any particular delivery date . |
| 3 | It is arguable that it is not , because since the contract allows the seller to vary the delivery date , the seller has performed exactly in accordance with the contract , and the buyer can not reasonably expect any other peformance . |
| 4 | Concessive holists can not simply ignore this divide , as Miller does , for this will leave their own position undefended . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , we can not simply solve these equations arid see if the resulting solution is non-negative , as in the examples of Chapter 5 , because we have more variables than equations — a consequence of ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) being a degenerate solution of LP* ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) ( by construction ) . |
| 6 | Understandings of human reproduction have varied ( and one can not here consider all such understandings and their consequences for what the relation of man to woman was held to be ) . |
| 7 | If extremely directed efforts by conventional organic chemistry can not yet make this molecule , its spontaneous formation out of chaos stretches credulity . |
| 8 | As we can not yet do all analyses on one sample , we have assumed that the mineralogy was similar to that of visually identical samples , which were indistinguishable from those reported previously from the same location ( finely intergrown siderite , Mg-calcite and iron sulphide ) . |
| 9 | Thus , the exploration of a present-day divergent state of language resembles the exploration of a historically attested state to the extent that we can not successfully describe either of these in terms of an external ( and usually superordinate ) variety . |
| 10 | Aeroflot 's transatlantic flights still need to land at Shannon airport in Ireland to refuel because they can not not carry enough fuel to complete the journey between New York and London . |
| 11 | Without such a compromise , the vendor can not easily recover this sum and the purchaser would have no real interest in pursuing it . |
| 12 | Added to this , small scattered rural communities with high levels of unemployment can not easily raise all the funds they need in their own area . |
| 13 | Added to this , small scattered rural communities with high levels of unemployment can not easily raise all the funds they need in their own area . |
| 14 | Organic farming is like wild gardening — you can not just stop all planning and let nature take over . |
| 15 | Thus , you can not just take any necessary action depending on the error and return to where you were because BBCBASIC(Z80) no longer knows where you were . |
| 16 | Not all sentences are interesting , relevant , or suitable ; one can not just put any sentence after another and hope that it will mean something . |
| 17 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 18 | Although men secrete the pheromone androsterone from their underarm glands , 50 to 60 per cent of males can not even smell such musky odours — which rather damages the claims that women 's musk-based perfumes drive men wild . |
| 19 | She can not even bother these days to tour with him . ’ |
| 20 | It makes matters worse that the Secretary of State for Education and Science can not even understand that . |
| 21 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 22 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 23 | No , you can not really say that . |
| 24 | They keep on calling me a celebrity , but I can not really accept that . |
| 25 | At work , we can not always do all the things we enjoy as well as those that we are good at . |
| 26 | These substances emit gamma rays , which pass through the food and kill most things , including yeasts , moulds and most forms of bacteria — although they can not always kill all bacteria , such as those which cause botulism . |
| 27 | We can not always say that . |
| 28 | Put another way , the All Blacks have the whole nation behind them , and even Wales can not quite claim that . |
| 29 | Humanism can not necessarily generate those values which are crucial if the market economy is to survive . |
| 30 | They can not then use that small amount for the few personal items that they may want to buy when they are in residential homes . |