Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong can not continue to accept that situation . |
| 2 | We can not hope to recover that certainty about good and evil upon which in the ethical religions salvation itself depends . |
| 3 | I would hate to feel that we were taking jobs away from Leeds in the sense that er people from Leeds felt compelled to move to Harrogate to do those jobs and I would can not help feeling that elsewhere in Yorkshire , and I 'm thinking particularly of South and West Yorkshire , there are many derelict industrial sites which re need to be recycled before we |
| 4 | I can not promise to do that immediately . |
| 5 | You can not afford to do that any more . |
| 6 | Governments , on one view , can not afford to leave that decision to the market because the stockmarket tends to reward those companies that abandon military R&D . |
| 7 | Those that have invested heavily in mainframes , according to Allen , can not afford to write that investment off . |
| 8 | This takes practice but you can soon learn to use that new-found sense of awareness whether you are going through a tranquil period of your life or whether you are lying in bed wondering why you can not get to sleep . |
| 9 | Now point number two is a general charge of this kind will affect different families in widely differing ways , and quite clearly there will be some families who can well afford to pay that charge , and there will be other people who can not , and maybe the case that you were quoting me is an example of that . |
| 10 | There are a number of significant steps that have to be taken before the IB can even contemplate making that sort of decision . |
| 11 | Noticeable notice that our our growth er , items er six and seven additional enforcement officer er officers for countryside protection , er we can actually like to do that and I 'll just come on to that in a moment when I get to two B but also in terms of growth er this group wants to see ten er whole time fire fighters , additional whole time fire fighters erm we wo n't get better in terms of confidence though fire engine survey this year but we we 'd rather sort of form |