Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ If for reasons beyond your control the profit potential of the capital resources can not match their apparent value there is a good chance that that value will diminish , be it through capital taxes , excessive borrowing or revaluation to realistic levels . |
| 2 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 3 | Now we need to talk a little bit about what happens when the veins or the arteries or the capillaries for that matter , the veins , the arteries or the capillaries have a leak in them , they become broken , now you already know that the circulatory system is a closed system and that the blood can only do its job if it 's being transported within that system , once the blood comes outside of that system then it 's lost the circulation and it can not perform its proper function any more , in other words the body 's losing its blood , okay , what condition do we call it when the circulatory system stops working properly ? |
| 4 | A firearm may be used when it is apparent that the police can not achieve their lawful purpose of preventing loss or further loss of life by any other means . |
| 5 | The Department of Transport replied : ’ Turning to your letter to Mr. Freeman , I can not answer your detailed questions about the financing of the station , as we have yet to see a full , up-to-date , case on this from BR . ’ |
| 6 | However , if the dividend is to be effectively delivered , it can not leave us vulnerable to the many other surprises hiding around the corner . |
| 7 | Now nobody can make him fight , but he can not leave his new homeland as he has no passport . |
| 8 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 9 | as Steel-Maitland reported to Law in 1914 : " sunderland : He says he can not manage thee distant meetings . |
| 10 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 11 | Held in the way described , it can not move its front legs and that means that it is unable to scratch you even should it want to . |
| 12 | The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree . |
| 13 | Informally this must mean that P " is essentially the same as " Q , in that , to an observer who can not detect their internal structure , the behaviours of P and Q are indistinguishable . |
| 14 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 15 | Such personal guarantees become effective if and when the company itself can not meet its financial obligations . |
| 16 | We can not stop our European partners arguing for a united states of Europe . |
| 17 | My love does not , can not make her happy ; my love can only release in her the capacity to be happy . |
| 18 | You can keep a people ignorant but you can not make them ignorant — ‘ Tom Paine ? ’ |
| 19 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 20 | Lastly , if the offence be not punishable in the Star-Chamber , the prohibition of it by proclamation can not make it punishable there : and after this resolution , no proclamation imposing fine and imprisonment was afterwards made , & c . |
| 21 | Southwest Airlines , the only commercial airline serving Love Field , can not offer its cheap , short-hop service to those who want to fly over Louisiana , Arkansas , Oklahoma or New Mexico . |
| 22 | BELVILLE : I had thought you should have sat at table with me , but when I find you can not forget your original but must prefer my menials to me , you shall wait on me while I sup . |
| 23 | As long as we are aliens , we can not forget our true homeland . |
| 24 | As Locke says , ‘ in some of our ideas there are certain relations , habitudes and connections , so visibly included in the nature of the ideas themselves , that we can not conceive them separable from them , by any power whatsoever ’ . |
| 25 | I can not bear your diseased view of mankind . ’ |
| 26 | A miner , a factory worker or a teacher can not continue his normal living . |
| 27 | Yet some are dangerous to our cause , and we can not brook their contumelious conspiracies against us . |
| 28 | Mandy Merck says : ‘ To associate Bill Clinton with a known gay activist like myself can not do him vast favours in large parts of homophobic America . ’ |
| 29 | The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ . |
| 30 | However , he feels he can not disillusion his tender plant of a wife , and so is saddled with Brenda for ever . |