Example sentences of "they can not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also , we can often see that children can use concepts that they can not yet express in English . |
| 4 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 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 | Mr. Beazley also relied on the general statements of principle in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the Peters case [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 quoted above , which he submitted echoed the general principles laid down in the Gubisch case [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 ; these are important principles , to which full weight must be given , but they can not in my judgment warrant the court placing a construction on the words of article 5(1) which they can not reasonably bear , and moreover they must be balanced against another general principle , laid down for example in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 8 | ‘ Athetoid ’ children find that their movements are hindered by unintentional and uncontrollable movements , and ‘ ataxic ’ children find that they can not generally control their muscles well . |
| 9 | Thus , if there is to be a section about ‘ microtext history ’ and another section about ‘ macrotext history ’ , they can not both go by the name ‘ history ’ . |
| 10 | They can not both succeed in attaining their mutually exclusive goals . |
| 11 | Aymara vowels are different from Spanish ones , so they can not easily distinguish ‘ u ’ from ‘ o ’ , ‘ i ’ from ‘ e ’ . |
| 12 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 13 | Because the spores are viable for a short time , Laboulbeniales are effectively restricted to arthropod hosts that have overlapping generations , especially in temperate regions ; that is they can not easily establish relations with those insects in which all the adults die at the end of the summer , with the species surviving in the form of larvae or pupae . |
| 14 | They can not easily communicate with other societies or with those who are not yet born , as people can who know how to write . |
| 15 | the pages should be bound together so that they can not easily fall apart and in a form which is easy to open and handle |
| 16 | Trends in the national economy confront firms with pressures they can not easily resist ’ ( Fothergill , Gudgin , Kitson and Monk , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Fitted carpets , though warm , are not a good idea for the bathroom and lavatory of an elderly person who may have minor ‘ mishaps ’ and spillages which they can not easily deal with as they advance into old age . |
| 18 | One problem hampering the incident investigators is that they can not immediately examine the section of the tank which was holed as it has now sunk to below ground level . |
| 19 | If they can not immediately find open employment the DRO might find them a place in the government-run sheltered employment scheme which is known as Remploy . |
| 20 | To return to the internal structure of Mosca 's elite , it must also be emphasised that this organised elite should not only share attitudes on significant issues but should also be aware of doing so , otherwise they can not properly manage the affairs of state in a responsible and decisive manner . |
| 21 | They can not just choose to hurt you , you have to give them the chance ( for example by joining in activities like those listed above ) — so do n't ! |
| 22 | They can not just boot off somewhere without booking . |
| 23 | They can not just assume the researcher role and use students as experimental subjects , observing how they learn under varying conditions with detached interest to satisfy an intellectual curiosity . |
| 24 | They can not however expect the Swan Hunter work force to accept the imposition of such working conditions at any price . |
| 25 | The males of Tidarren are so small that they can not even carry their full complement of mating implements and consequently amputate one of their two pedipalps . |
| 26 | ‘ The authorities responsible have developed so much uncertainty in themselves that they can not even show tolerance and rationality in dealing with our children , ’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) said . |
| 27 | McCartney and Harrison claim that the quality of the recording is so poor they can not even decipher their own parts , and allege two tracks are not Beatles recordings . |
| 28 | In the jargon it is said that they can not even get on the Masters and Johnson ‘ ski-slope ’ , let alone start down it . |
| 29 | Instead they will have to retrain in future , perhaps to do jobs they can not even imagine today . |
| 30 | They will pay for licences to release substances they can not economically recycle or recover . |