Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 2 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 3 | Adhesion requires not only integrin ligands on the endothelium , but also activation signals because T-cell integrins can not bind well until they are activated . |
| 4 | Both players know that , whatever their opponent does , they themselves can not do better than DEFECT ; yet both also know that , if only both had cooperated , each one would have done better . |
| 5 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 6 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 7 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |