Example sentences of "we can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say : " Educational technology is not about audiovisual materials " is perfectly true , but we can not suppose from this that it does not include them . |
| 2 | We can not rush into it . ’ |
| 3 | What we can do with the Holy Spirit is something that we can not do on our own . |
| 4 | ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’ |
| 5 | We can not do without his cunning , or his tinker friends . |
| 6 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 7 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 8 | The Captain 's name is I. McKeller and the mates Murray so you see we can not do without your countrymen and candidly I shall place my life in their hands with the utmost confidence . |
| 9 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 10 | ‘ At the moment , we can not identify with any certainty the eggs that will develop into normal embryos . |
| 11 | We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions . |
| 12 | Another rival , National Westminster 's Lombard North Central , says : ‘ We can not compete with Ford 's terms head-on . ’ |
| 13 | Without a skilled work force , we can not compete in world markets . |
| 14 | We feel we can not comment on their allegations until we have seen it too , ’ Roy Batchelor , Rugby 's spokesman said . |
| 15 | The use of cool boxes was so rare that we can not comment on their potential effectiveness , and it is difficult to obtain small cool boxes of known effectiveness in Britain . |
| 16 | Since this initiative was financially and administratively separate from PNP , we can not comment on it here . |
| 17 | ‘ How are you ? ’ — ‘ I 'm fine ’ , and talk about the weather are designed to make another individual feel comfortable , to let them know that we are positively disposed towards them when we can not think of anything more significant to say . |
| 18 | ‘ We can not think in terms of locations until we know more about what kind of attraction is planned . ’ |
| 19 | We can not reach into the mystery of Eliot 's solitude . |
| 20 | ‘ We can not tell at all how the pol[itica]l situation will develop , ’ wrote Trevelyan to Morel in July 1915 , adding : ‘ There is no hurry . ’ |
| 21 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 22 | We can not tell in advance in what directions a specific lesson or block of work might lead — but we have to act as if we can . |
| 23 | We reserve the right to refuse payment on any bet which we can not substantiate on the microfilm copy , or any bet which we have no record of . |
| 24 | We have the same process here , but now we can not distinguish between the participant roles of hunter and lion . |
| 25 | On the basis of the data presented here , we can not distinguish between these two most plausible explanations for the residual activity observed with Dcm/Cys177Ser . |
| 26 | What value is our own home if we can not feel for those who are homeless ? |
| 27 | What worth is our own job if we can not feel for those who are unemployed ? |
| 28 | What comfort can we get from our own happiness if we can not feel for those who are condemned to live in misery ? |
| 29 | But we can not marry until … ‘ |
| 30 | Tragically , we can not negotiate at the moment , but that will be put right before too long . |