Example sentences of "can not [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because the individual has settled here the Government say that they can not send that person back . |
| 2 | I still can not hold that tension between the immediacy of the world of my childhood , the towering hugeness of my mother and father and my grown-up brother , back from Germany and the RAF with his rifle and a suntan , and the interconnecting pattern of the economy , their class and politics . |
| 3 | We can not answer that question . |
| 4 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 5 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 6 | I think division is a good idea since the present Tate building , apart from the major Duveen galleries , can not answer that need . |
| 7 | I have been in rescue for 15 years , but I just can not explain that feeling . ’ |
| 8 | I can not borrow that amount of money because I 'm already overdrawn and I do n't know anybody who would lend me any . |
| 9 | We can not ignore that growth , if only because the machinery and procedures adequate to manage 5,000 are entirely inappropriate for 50,000 and more . |
| 10 | The continuing partners will wish to ensure that the outgoing partner can not damage that goodwill . |
| 11 | To ask me to give commitments in advance of the review is an outrageous request , and I can not meet that commitment for the reasons that I have given . |
| 12 | However , if that application process takes a long time , it is felt that one can not upset that person 's lifestyle — he may be married — and he is allowed to stay . |
| 13 | That principle might be formulated as follows : if A tells B ( by words or conduct ) that B need not perform a contractual ( or other ) obligation owed by B to A and B takes A at his word and does not perform that obligation , A can not treat that non-performance as a breach of contract entitling him to damages or to terminate the contract . |
| 14 | Of course , I can not pretend that repossessin' is ‘ the image of war with honly five and twinty per cent of the danger and none of the guilt ’ like huntin' foxes . |
| 15 | I 'm the other spaceman baby But I can not do that mum . |
| 16 | You can not do that sort of thing if you 're a priest . ’ |
| 17 | However , our study can not exclude that enalapril and hydrochlorothiazide had different hypotensive effects , because to detect a difference of 5 mm Hg between the two groups , with 90% power , would have required 191 patients in each group . |
| 18 | A year on , I can not repeat that courtesy . |
| 19 | The Germans say that they can not absorb that number , and country after country is saying the same . |
| 20 | I obviously can not give that guarantee . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh my God , that girl can not wear that suit . |
| 22 | ‘ You can not exaggerate that sight , ’ Bono will later say . |
| 23 | The reason is that the organizational changes discussed by Williamson influence the distribution of power both within and between firms , and one can not presume that power is used to produce efficient outcomes . |
| 24 | A letter can not change that feeling . ’ |
| 25 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 26 | The reasons behind thousands upon thousands of black kids immersing themselves in sport may stem from basic inequalities which I find unacceptable , and , indeed , immoral , but I can not affirm that sport is some device for the perpetuation of these inequalities any more than I can agree with some critics , such as Paul Hoch , that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination designed to slough off energies or divert them into meaningless channels ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Once Elizabeth used to say , ‘ Oh Hywel , Hywel , I can not skin that rabbit . |
| 28 | A person who is subject to a statutory duty can not discharge that duty by entrusting responsibility for its performance to someone else . |
| 29 | I can not believe that Access genuinely charge interest on repaid money , which means that his bill was a cock-up and the brass-faced hussy at Southend was a liar . |
| 30 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |