Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister aware that when I lie in my flat at night I can not sleep for noise ? |
| 2 | ( vi ) Bankrupts — an undischarged bankrupt can not stand for Parliament . |
| 3 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 4 | If all the goods and services which the business supplies are exempt , then the business can not register for VAT purposes . |
| 5 | Its theme is that man can not hope for immortality , the only one who gained it being the Babylonian Noah . |
| 6 | Education about alcohol in schools can not compensate for home and community , it is argued , and education should value alcohol use and encourage individual responsibility . |
| 7 | Finally , we have thought it worthwhile to reprint , yet again , Basil Bernstein 's classic , ‘ Education Can not Compensate for Society ’ . |
| 8 | How many health authorities , such as Tunbridge Wells , can not pay for routine operations and how many district health authorities , such as South Birmingham , can not pay any more bills until April ? |
| 9 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 10 | The rule is that one can not claim for damage to the defective product itself or to any product which was supplied with the defective product comprised within it . |
| 11 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 12 | The same fate will await any terms which restrict the ex-employee 's future employment prospects to any great extent ; for example , a term which states that a computer programmer can not work for computer software companies in the United Kingdom for five years following the termination of his employment . |
| 13 | We are a group with a specific condition and specific demands and we can not wait for socialism and structural changes to solve the problems tomorrow , which today are the cause of our limitations … |
| 14 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 15 | The witness must be outside the jurisdiction and there must be some good reason why he can not attend for examination in the usual way . |
| 16 | The dead can not sue for libel . |
| 17 | Trade unions , and most other unincorporated associations can not sue for libel . |
| 18 | There seems to be an exception in the case of trade unions which can not sue for libel ( see above ) but can nevertheless be made defendants as a result of the abolition of their immunity in tort by s15 of the 1982 Employment Act . |
| 19 | As trespass is an interference with possession , it follows that if the plaintiff were not in possession at the date of the alleged meddling , he can not sue for trespass . |
| 20 | First , in the two-party situation there is normally a remedy already available to B , while in the three-party situation , if C can not sue for intimidation , he can not sue at all . |
| 21 | Note that anyone who is or was a local authority foster parent for the child within the preceding six months can not apply for leave to seek a s8 order unless he has the consent of the authority or he is a relative of the child or the child has lived with him for at least three years preceding the application ( s9(3) ) . |