Example sentences of "can not [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that can not mean that the process of change has ended . |
| 2 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 3 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 4 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 5 | C might ignore the agreement , take coercive action and promote a conflict between itself and A and B. C can not be compelled to accept the terms of the treaty between A and B ; if C acts contrary to the treaty , A and B can not make that the basis of a claim against C. Equally , if the treaty between A and B was in C's interest , C could not enforce that interest through legal proceedings unless it was in fact more than an interest , and amounted to a legally protected right . |
| 6 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 7 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 8 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 9 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 10 | We can not expect that the experience and experiments of other people in other places occupied with other problems will produce answers off the peg which will fit our particular requirements . |
| 11 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 12 | The judge in making an award of damages will know that a payment into court has been made , but will not know in what sum and so can not ensure that the damages awarded are high enough to beat the payment into court , if minded to make an award similar to that which the defendant has offered . |
| 13 | So , we do apologize , but hope you 'll understand er , the delegate particularly , that we just can not ensure that the report has got absolutely everything in it . |
| 14 | We can not assume that a divergent phonological system , for example , is structurally similar to or derivative from RP , or that lexical items belong to the same phonemic sets , or that the tense/aspect system is structured in the same way as that of standard English . |
| 15 | But one can not assume that an everyday ‘ coherent ’ sense of self is readily available . |
| 16 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 17 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 18 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 19 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |
| 20 | Where goods are marketed via wholesaler and retailer the person who buys goods from the retailer can not complain that the manufacturer was in breach of his contract of sale with the wholesaler . |
| 21 | However , one can not conclude that the committees have a sufficiently important role either : |
| 22 | The Government President of Swabia formulated what was undoubtedly widely felt in September 1941 , when he wrote that ‘ from here , the proceedings in the homeland must appear ‘ Bolshevistic ’ , the blatant contradiction incomprehensible ; people can not believe that the Führer approves of this . ’ |
| 23 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 24 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 25 | I can not believe that the Masai , as I know them , would have applied for membership of an association of which they must be completely ignorant' . |
| 26 | Shoppers can not believe that the process is so straightforward . |
| 27 | ‘ I can not believe that the legislature ever intended that the powers contained in paragraph 1 , with the sanction of criminal penalties , should or could be invoked to obtain information or documents of a potentially incriminating nature from one who had already been cautioned and charged with offences under the Act … |
| 28 | ‘ After all of that , I simply can not believe that the fell was not named after you — if not in tribute then in anticipation . ’ |
| 29 | I mean I can not believe that the guy |
| 30 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |