Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them . |
| 2 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 3 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 4 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 5 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 6 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 7 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |
| 8 | You can not expect them to be house-trained and , indeed , this can subsequently prove a far more arduous task than normal . |
| 9 | We can not exclude them from our notion of property or deny that in a sense , at any rate , he is the owner of them . |
| 10 | In a sense one can not blame them for that , but we in the SSPCA feel that it would be much better if some of those payments from the Government came in the form of food tokens which could be redeemed when farmers purchased feeding stocks . ’ |
| 11 | Nevertheless , whether the parties want compromise or a contest , their legal advisers can not satisfy them without a thorough knowledge of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ( " UCTA " ) , and of the underlying principles contained in the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( " SGA " ) , and the Supply of Goods And Services Act 1982 ( " SGSA " ) . |
| 12 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 13 | But I can not denounce them in other people 's words . |
| 14 | It is not worth our while because we can not redeem them for as much as they would get for five- or 10-dollar bills . ’ |
| 15 | But I can not set them over others here . |
| 16 | Because certain people do not conform to academic expectations or social abilities of others , this can not place them outside society . |
| 17 | The APB can not ignore such strong criticisms , but it can not accept them without badly damaging its credibility . |
| 18 | He can not produce them for Wales , why is that ? |
| 19 | Breaks my heart to part with them but I am going to live abroad and can not take them with me . |
| 20 | The judge can not say them to a member of the family over breakfast , or in a country where the death penalty has been abolished . |
| 21 | Yet as we shall see in the next chapter , with poorer clients the problem is not simply one of providing lawyers for people who can not afford them from their own resources . |
| 22 | When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away . |
| 23 | Each side of the politician-media professional partnership is striving to realize certain goals vis-à-vis the audience : yet it can not pursue them without securing in some form the co-operation of the other side . |
| 24 | Fish are very demanding for the draughtsman because one can not put them into an attractive or anthropomorphic pose ; what can sometimes be done is to show the scenery where the fish was caught . |