Example sentences of "can not [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that planning can not dictate that people live near to where they work , I 'm not sure I 've yet grasped why it is that the need to Greater York need to be met near to York , the these needs to rise from a complex pattern of people moving in and people moving out , individual decisions as to where people live in relation to where they work , what 's the magic of having the new settlement near to York ? |
| 2 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 4 | We can not hope that Protestant and Catholic would begin peacefully to coexist once peace-keeping British soldiers had departed . |
| 5 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 6 | Equally , the firms can not ensure that decisions will be made according to what they see as appropriate criteria unless those criteria are built into the decision process . |
| 7 | When pressed by journalists for an assurance that Koko is Nigeria 's only dump , the irritated Minister for Works and Housing snaps , ‘ I can not confirm that Koko is the only dump . |
| 8 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 9 | And , certainly , we can not assume that processes in writing are unvarying . |
| 10 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 11 | Just because Ms Average is a cooperative rather than competitive speaker , we can not assume that Jane Smith who is sitting in front of you will not deliver the goods . |
| 12 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |
| 13 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 14 | Surely the terrorists can not believe that killing and maiming ordinary people is an achievement . |
| 15 | Both books talk of this power as being abnormal , but I can not believe that people have the power to just FLEX and move an object . |
| 16 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 17 | Though you can not deny that Stalinvast needed cleansing of its parasites ! |
| 18 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 19 | Although the University will do its best to avoid increases in fees , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of your course . |
| 20 | All fees are subject to annual review and although the University will do its best to avoid large increases , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of a student 's course . |
| 21 | But while many of the economic arguments favouring unrestricted insider dealing make interesting reading , they can not prove that insider dealing is desirable . |
| 22 | Equally , economics can not prove that insider dealing is undesirable . |
| 23 | The old-fashioned objected that it was dangerous to eyesight , and that those who read by candlelight did not need spectacles , but one can not imagine that Jane Austen was among them . |
| 24 | In reality , such a debate misses the point of the parallelism : the question is not whether , taken in isolation , B is more precise than A , but whether " king of Moab " in B adds any precisions to what we already have in A. unquestionably it does ; however , we must admit that in the case of " Aram " II " the Eastern Hills " we can not say that B adds precision to A ( unless perhaps the poet knows something that we do not ) . |
| 25 | I can not say that Oldham ‘ dominated ’ the last 20 mins . |
| 26 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 27 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
| 28 | For in the circumstances of ordinary politics the checkerboard strategy will prevent instances of injustice that would otherwise occur , and we can not say that justice requires not eliminating any injustice unless we can eliminate all . |
| 29 | But they STILL can not say that radiation is to blame . |
| 30 | We can not see that power is a means of dealing with fear , of acting and doing in order to gain control over it ; when we are powerless our fears overwhelm us . |