Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] that they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the same time , it is argued , the increasing demand for competitively gained qualifications means that children from middle-class families can not assume that they will avoid downward mobility . |
| 2 | Since standard English and Irish English syntactic forms do not mark the same temporal and aspectual distinctions , we can not assume that they are embedded in the same underlying grammar . |
| 3 | Just because the technology offers exciting possibilities , we can not assume that they will be realised . |
| 4 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 5 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 6 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 7 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 8 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |
| 9 | They can not prove that they are right and you can not prove that they are wrong . |
| 10 | They can not prove that they are right and you can not prove that they are wrong . |
| 11 | I can not say that they were happy days , but they taught me what life is about . |
| 12 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 13 | An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes . |
| 14 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 15 | Christians are supposed to forgive , but what if say it 's the mother of somebody who had a child that 's been murdered or if somebody has been raped you can not say that they should forgive you cos they were a Christian . |
| 16 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
| 17 | Special elastic strips can be bought nowadays for this method , but I can not see that they are any improvement on our elastic bands ! |