Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not walk on a cloud ! " |
| 2 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 3 | A short length of each vas deferens should be removed to ensure that sperm can not pass between the severed ends . |
| 4 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 5 | ‘ They can not pass off the blame as if the order to close these homes came directly from Whitehall , ’ said Mr Bergg , a member of Great Aycliffe Town Council . |
| 6 | It seems more likely that , in the absence of active hepatitis B virus replication and intracellular nucleopcapid protein ( HBcAg ) , sureplus pre-S peptides can not migrate to the plasma membrane as part of new assembling particles and thus will accumulate in the cytoplasm . |
| 7 | Does he realise that he can not sit on the fence on this one , and what does he intend to do about it ? |
| 8 | So the net is cast very wide , as to who can not sit on the |
| 9 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 10 | The ideal of beauty and normality can not perish in a healthy society ; and for this reason you ought to let art go its own way ad be confident that it will not go astray … |
| 11 | We can not compete on the basis of low educational standards or poor working conditions . |
| 12 | Plaatjes , who has given up his South African citizenship but can not compete for the United States until he has completed his five-year residential period next year , is the second-fastest man in the race behind Yakov Tolstikov , but his recent form is better than that of the Siberian runner . |
| 13 | They can not compete with a handful of rice and 8d per day . |
| 14 | When they reacted the drug with a self complementary two ’ stranded , six-base DNA chain , they found that the hydrogen bonding which holds the two strands together can not compete with the bonding of the platinum complex to adjacent guanine groups ( see Figure ) . |
| 15 | My fees are competitive but I can not compete with the ‘ sweat shops ’ run by unqualified accountants who can bash out a ‘ set of accounts ’ for £200 . |
| 16 | This is because the time and preparation needed to achieve the perfect finish can not compete with the sophistication of modern moulding manufacturing processes , which have improved the standard of mass-produced leafing while keeping the cost of the finished mouldings at a realistic level . |
| 17 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 18 | Besides , straining one 's eyes over these distant shapes can not compete with the fun available so near at hand . |
| 19 | Even some five years into the technology there are still areas in which it simply can not compete with the more traditional methods of print production and publishing , the most often quoted being that of output quality . |
| 20 | Lairds , like Swans , was designated a Naval yard and therefore intervention fund and for the E E C. With the advent of the peace dividend , those yards , designated Naval yards can not compete with the merchant yards who receive the intervention fund , which is basically a subsidy that allows European yards to compete on a level plain with shipyards in the Far East . |
| 21 | They can not compete within the visible spectrum , but they will be highly competitive throughout the infrared and perhaps also in the ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions , where there have been several significant developments recently . |
| 22 | The EC and the USA both dump their subsidised food on world markets at artificially low prices which robs developing countries of any outlet for their own surplus foodstuffs , as they can not compete against the industrial world 's $126 billion of annual subsidies . |
| 23 | He will try to obtain by force what he can not achieve by the correct use of the aids as taught by the classical school . ’ |
| 24 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 25 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |
| 26 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 27 | ‘ I can not speak for the other 33 countries who are not here , but as for me , I would say if this happened in 1990 it would be good , ’ he added . |
| 28 | ‘ I can not speak for the gods , but for myself I say this . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |