Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] at the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The response points out that there is little point in improving regional road links if traffic can not move at the beginning or end of its journey — inevitably this must involve a public transport solution within urban areas , with some form of limitation on car usage .
5 Tragically , we can not negotiate at the moment , but that will be put right before too long .
6 Éomer 's intervention does not help him much , for he and his companions can not decide at the end of chapter 2 whether they have seen Saruman or not .
7 And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate .
8 Bill Walker , Conservative MP for Tayside North , says : ‘ We can not continue at the current level of borrowing , so some new source of income has to be found .
9 FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election .
10 Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) .
11 This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’
12 We can not park at the weekend and people are already parking on the grass verge . ’
13 They are to help pay for something you need but can not afford at the time you need it .
14 Mr Scully adds that security considerations may limit what data an individual can look at — London , for instance , can not look at the accounts specific to Hong Kong .
15 Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries .
16 We get calls from our customers , from receptionists , for example , who can not balance at the end of the shift .
17 If British Rail is under pressure to increase the frequency of its service , there is a case for a coordinated transport system operating bus and rail services , If there is a need for transport when it is not convenient to run rail services , or if only a certain number of trains can run on a line because goods trains and passenger services can not operate at the same time — although perhaps British Rail should be more innovative in its mix of passenger and freight services perhaps it is a good idea for British Rail and the bus services — as they are today , not as they will be affected by the Bill — to get together .
18 As Einstein expressed it : ‘ The world that we have made at the level of thinking we have done so far , creates problems we can not solve at the same level of thinking ’ .
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