Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | It can not but contribute to the impression of providential suitability of an Eastern European pope . |
2 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
3 | ‘ I know that you 've built up some kind of sustaining narrative behind your eidetic delusion — it can not but be otherwise . |
4 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
5 | In a Marxist context it , it can not because the only way in which you can make progress is through co class conflict . |
6 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
7 | It is a phenomenon which is repeated at a number of other small towns such as Ilchester and Bath , but it can not as yet be explained . |
8 | It can not and must not be confined to the school and to the classroom . |
9 | This should be as much for what it can not and does not achieve , as for what it does . |
10 | It can not and will never be anything more in the present day state ’ ( quoted in Przeworski , 1985 , p. 10 ) . |
11 | The answer is that it can not and will not . |
12 | Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do . |