Example sentences of "can [not/n't] even [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What other nation can not even settle on its own name ? |
| 2 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 3 | Mr E described Dave , now in his second term at this school , as exasperatingly ‘ lazy ’ , always talking to others , the only one in the class who will make a mess of things , who can not even copy from the board , but who can sometimes surprise by good work . |
| 4 | I can not even press for its performance , since a conspiracy has been formed to produce it , if it must be produced , extremely badly and thus ruin it . |
| 5 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 6 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
| 7 | In the jargon it is said that they can not even get on the Masters and Johnson ‘ ski-slope ’ , let alone start down it . |
| 8 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 9 | The distinguished Scots ecologist Adam Watson believes that the native pinewoods can not even survive without a great initial reduction in deer numbers followed by a regular programme of culling . |