Example sentences of "can not [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 2 | The other limitation is that property can not pass in unascertained goods , see section 16 ( above ) . |
| 3 | It is for nearly 12 miles so narrow , that a mouse can not pass by any carriage … |
| 4 | But the teacher can not sit in splendid and comfortable isolation in staff room or on classroom dais while his pupils are busily engrossed in resource-based exercises ; he is involved at every point in the process , from the preliminary planning and assembly of available materials , the creation of additional resources and linking items , the initial presentation and motivation sessions , the follow-up work as the pupils proceed , and the eventual summing up and validation at the end . |
| 5 | But Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington can not compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain . |
| 6 | Obviously , however much informal work experience young people may have acquired , it can not compete with that of older workers . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | In general , the UK garment industry can not compete with foreign imports on price . |
| 9 | However , because they can not compete in two competitions , the winner or runner-up in tomorrow 's final will secure a spot in next season 's European Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 10 | Whatever form it takes , however , such conspicuous consumption — ; and hence the allocation of status — depends upon income and farm workers , on low wages , simply can not compete in this league . |
| 11 | For those smaller plant bakery companies who can not compete in these volume stakes the choice is quite clear . |
| 12 | Similarly , UK recyclers can not compete against subsidized imports of waste German paper and board , the government alleges . |
| 13 | It is trying to assert itself politically , offering money the PLO can not match to young , educated Gazans to join the Islamist movement . |
| 14 | Every evening he listens to one of the masters — Schubert , Schumann , Beethoven , Brahms — a habit which he can not miss without physical anguish . |
| 15 | You can not conceive of experiences which are not yours ( generalising now from the simple example of pain ) and you can not achieve in any other way a conception of a subject of those experiences who is not you . |
| 16 | In most fields , however , you can not speak of separate British and American histories as they share so much in materials and design and craftsmanship . |
| 17 | " We can not speak of 'Ukrainian Decembrists ' , but … only of Decembrists in the Ukraine " . |
| 18 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 19 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |
| 20 | I say you might — because of course I can not speak with any certainty upon that point — as you might wish to be granted . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not speak for all here , but for myself I say this . |
| 22 | I can not speak for other hypnotherapists , but for myself I do not think it is a good idea . |
| 23 | Erm I can not speak for other districts , and they are a far |
| 24 | Langbaurgh council leader Arthur Taylor said : ‘ We can not speak for other authorities , but as far as Langbaurgh is concerned , we have no debt with Caldaire . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We can not tell at all how the pol[itica]l situation will develop , ’ wrote Trevelyan to Morel in July 1915 , adding : ‘ There is no hurry . ’ |
| 26 | His poem about Mesmer is a great puzzle to me , as I can not tell with any certainty what is his attitude to Animal Magnetism , whether mocking or endorsing , and this is so with other of his work , so that often one is led to wonder whether there is not a great pother of talk about nothing much . |
| 27 | When we use the term ‘ uncle ’ for example , the listener can not tell from this whether we mean our father 's brother or our mother 's brother . |
| 28 | Not only are these characteristics in stark contrast with the possibilities for ordinary adjectives , they can not hold for these inherently restrictive adjectives unchaperoned by an article : ( 28 ) second had roses on it Max owns best that has been discovered so far |
| 29 | Clearly it can not be the case that and that if 4 is non-zero , and so condition ( iii ) above can not hold in both environments . |
| 30 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |