Example sentences of "can not [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressed in a different way , one can not coherently both use " Shakespeare " as a name and assume that Shakespeare literally could be " anything " . |
| 2 | For PFR can not yet reliably turn nuclear heat into the steam needed to generate electricity . |
| 3 | The predictions of perturbation theory are in reasonable qualitative agreement with observation , but one can not yet really claim that the theory has been experimentally verified . |
| 4 | Now that 's a very detailed thing regarding the technicality of running the parliament , which I am sorry I can not right now answer you , but it 's covered . |
| 5 | The person who is justified , the church which believes this , Christians who believe in a God who changes lives , can not just simply go through the motions . |
| 6 | Despite much research we can not even today offer a convincing explanation . |
| 7 | It can not therefore now justify that it was right to cause those same pensioner 's to pay twenty per cent of the Poll Tax . |
| 8 | We can not too strongly condemn such a practice and we recommend its total abolition … |
| 9 | The practice can not therefor either share the load or hand it over . |
| 10 | Where there is limited choice or competition , as in many public services , individual citizens can not as easily make their voices heard or their views count . |
| 11 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 12 | Naturally we can not always totally ignore the views of others but , If you know you are doing your job as well as you can , remember it is your own opinion which counts . |
| 13 | Your memorialists can not sufficiently strongly express their opinion of the impropriety of persistence in any such line of action . |
| 14 | Personally I have always agreed with that , but I can not now simply substitute my judgment for that of the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe . |
| 15 | However , if a person " adversely possesses " the land for twelve years , the paper owner can not any longer enforce these rights against the occupier . |
| 16 | We need to analyse the components of the business and we can not any longer assume that they will all naturally stick together . ’ |
| 17 | It is a pity that Scottish students can not so easily access national qualifications from other member states in the European Community ’ . |
| 18 | After all , an editor can always write up the copy himself but he can not so easily produce a photograph . |
| 19 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 20 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 21 | ‘ We can not so certainly revoke a trust . |
| 22 | I can not very well lie and ignore her . ’ |
| 23 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 24 | Therefore , the arbitrage of underpricings ( which requires short selling shares ) is opened up during the stock exchange account which includes the delivery date to traders who can not usually short sell . |