Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the medical profession will argue that an individual without medical expertise can not pass judgement on their performance . |
| 2 | I can not pass water without a forgotten claimant reaching for what is his . |
| 3 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , however you can not send mail to yourself . |
| 4 | Your agent will want you to be working , but they can not perform miracles for you . |
| 5 | An anti-state force such as the provisionals , who do not recognize the statehood of the twenty-six county state , can not achieve support in the South for this essential policy . |
| 6 | This is why the final scene , when they look through the kitchen window and can not tell pigs from humans , has such numbing force . |
| 7 | The company can not hold interests in land worth more than half its total chargeable assets ( a modified version of one of the BES rules ) . |
| 8 | Furthermore , private investors can not trade shares on terms even approaching those available to fund managers . |
| 9 | We can not love God with our whole hearts , souls and minds . |
| 10 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 11 | We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be . |
| 12 | But one can not separate farming into tidy compartments : the demands of the market , livestock numbers , weather conditions , and many other variables force one to compromise . |
| 13 | We can not separate power from sex . |
| 14 | TCGA 1992 , s69(1) deems the trust to be a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom ; 3. the trust is therefore outside the UK capital gains tax regime and the Revenue can not collect tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87(4) . |
| 15 | Rot is caused by fungi which live parasitically on cellulose since fungi have no chlorophyll and can not photosynthesize sugars for themselves . |
| 16 | While Compacts can not dictate policy of this kind it is essential that they raise the issue of involving trade unionists with prospective employers . |
| 17 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 18 | I myself can not leave London at the present time . |
| 19 | It is characteristic of faith that it can not remain in two minds ; it can not leave things in the air . |
| 20 | I can not leave Decca without drooling over its ‘ Historic ’ recordings — Backhaus/Clemens Krauss , LSO/Krips , Monteux , VPO/Kleiber , Knappertsbusch , Amadeus/Curzon/Brain ; Della Casa , Flagstad , Julius Katchen , Rachmaninov and the incomparable Rosenkavalier ( Jurinac , Reining , Weber , Gueden , Poell , VPO/Kleiber ) . |
| 21 | ‘ But I can not leave Edward on his own , ’ protested the eleven-year-old . |
| 22 | The Chinese have realised that they can not build homes for their rural people out of modern materials , even though ingenious mini-cement plants and oval shaped multi-chamber brick kilns have been promoted throughout the communes of China . |
| 23 | We regret that we can not exchange tickets under any circumstances . |
| 24 | Although they are an unreliable indicator of the conditions of these markets , the results can not inspire confidence for the more important sales taking place later this month and at the beginning of December . |
| 25 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |
| 26 | Obviously you can not wage war without taxing . |
| 27 | The agency can not start work on a claim until it has received these documents . |
| 28 | First , since the ICC is not a lawmaking body it can not formulate rules of a mandatory character ; indeed , its rules are intended to encapsulate proper practice rather than to distribute legal liability . |
| 29 | Any serious attempt to resolve the urban problem can not ignore questions of political participation within the cities and the urban political debate 's impact on the national stage . |
| 30 | For me , a publicly sited work can not ignore questions of responsibility and accountability : Who am I addressing ? |