Example sentences of "can not [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never visit Kyle of Lochalsh without feeling an impelling urge to go across to Skye , and now , in writing this book , which was originally intended to be about the mainland only , I find that I simply can not pass the island by without a further look at its highlight , the Black Cuillin . |
| 2 | If you explain that in the drama lesson you are going to be working together , that you will need their help , that you can not create the drama on your own , you are raising their status , making them important . |
| 3 | In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers . |
| 4 | The first implication to draw from these models is that diversification within a national market can not eliminate the risk due to the market . |
| 5 | On this I can not resolve the conflict between the various affidavits . |
| 6 | It can not resolve the problem one way or another because the nature of the problem is itself ill defined . |
| 7 | Threatening co-ordination difficulties can arise if and only if the system 's managers can not resolve the displacement of crises because of serious dysfunctions in the economy or some sort of collapse in the cultural — ideological system . |
| 8 | If the Manager can not resolve the matter to your satisfaction , you should write to : |
| 9 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 10 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 11 | This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence . |
| 12 | At present , however , even with the ‘ top resistance ’ touch fitted to some electronic instruments , they can not match the ability of a good pipe organ to exercise effective control of rhythm and phrasing . |
| 13 | The Creda 17221 Micron outpaces it , but can not match the Logic 's capacious belly . |
| 14 | The Dagenham workforce would argue that there are good reasons why the ageing plant can not match the performance of its modern Continental rivals . |
| 15 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 16 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 17 | As Clune puts it : ‘ Being required to do anything and especially being required to do something specific can not match the effectiveness of internally motivated , adaptive behaviour directed at the same underlying end . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Whatever pleasure it gives you can not match the pleasure it gave me to buy this trinket for you . ’ |
| 19 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |
| 20 | A man , Wolff argues , can forfeit his autonomy by not taking the responsibility on himself ; by , for example , obeying commands blindly ; but he can not abnegate the responsibility which the possibility of choice confers upon him . |
| 21 | Distribution and storage should be in materials that can not contaminate the water , such as asbestos-cement , plastics , or lined pipes and containers . |
| 22 | With the rise of palaeontology about 1800 this test became anyway less relevant : we can not supervise the mating of dinosaurs . |
| 23 | Driving from Louvois to Bouzy , and taking the left turn into the village itself , one can not miss the corner section of vines proudly signposted as ‘ Bollinger 's Vieilles Vignes ’ . |
| 24 | Obviously , as this pattern is made from natural materials , one can not achieve the precision and effect of an exact replica that is obtained with a ruler and hand-drawn lines or circles . |
| 25 | Keynes ' work was directed at yet another source of market failure — inadequate information available to market traders , in particular firms and workers , so that the market can not achieve the equilibrium wage rate at which there would be full employment . |
| 26 | Perhaps my right hon. Friend should consider introducing a law to make the exploitation of those weak and innocent people — many can not speak the language — a criminal offence . |
| 27 | They can not speak the language , so they can not get work and they need help . |
| 28 | Provided that the person putting the terms forward has taken reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attention of persons in general , it is irrelevant that those steps were insufficient to bring the terms to the attention of the particular contracting partner , for instance because he/she is illiterate , blind or can not speak the language in which the terms are printed ( Thompson v London Midland and Scottish Railway Co [ 1930 ] 1 KB 41 ) . |
| 29 | At least let me know of your address , even if you feel you can not tell the Ambassador , your uncle , or his wife where you are . |
| 30 | Imagine how difficult it is to look at the speaker if you can not tell the direction the voice is coming from , or if you can not hear his voice and maybe do n't know he is speaking . |