Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 2 | But we can not assume that this is always the case . |
| 3 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 4 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 5 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 6 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 7 | With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach . |
| 8 | Thus , although I recognise that the most striking feature of the events in suit is , from the point of view of a criminal lawyer , that they happened after charge , I can not accept that this is the only perspective in which they should be viewed . |
| 9 | One can not establish that this is the case in one case without establishing that it is the case in all like cases . |
| 10 | We can not imagine that this inevitable development is what IBM sought when it hid its mainframe price list . |
| 11 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 12 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Eventually I said angrily that ‘ surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 14 | I can not see that this represents a temporary disillusionment : see the discussion of the religious aspects of the poem in Chapter 3 ( p. 91 ) . |