Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not walk two steps here without bumping into a café , being slapped in the face by restaurant smells , or meeting a shop selling something absolutely scrumptious . |
| 2 | Another disadvantage is that boats can not pass each other during the locking through . ’ |
| 3 | But these of course must be straight , because the light beam can not pass round corners . |
| 4 | Someone hiring goods under a hire-purchase agreement is not a ‘ buyer ’ and therefore can not pass good title under either the Factors Act , section 9 or the Sale o Act , section 25 . |
| 5 | The smallest hint of irregularity can not pass unnoticed . ’ |
| 6 | However , the court can not create new rights over the landlord 's land and can not elevate informal personal privileges into property rights ( Orlik ( G ) ( Meat Products ) Ltd v Hastings and Thanet BS ( 1974 ) 29 P & CR 126 ) . |
| 7 | to operate among the capacities and struggles which exist outside themselves : while they are crucially important in forming these into a programme they can not create practical policies themselves for these arise from people 's practical negotiation of their immediate environment . |
| 8 | Actively to create room for such development work seems essential precisely because field workers who are hard pressed by a burden of routine and less focused casework demands can not create such room for themselves . |
| 9 | That 's not to say that it can not create long documents , far from it , just that equal emphasis is given to each page by the program . |
| 10 | This message will be output if LIFESPAN RDBI can not create one of its USER , MODULE or DC related views . |
| 11 | This can be done by making a point of asking their advice on small matters , which can not create any anxiety in them . |
| 12 | In the same term it was resolved by the two Chief Justices , Chief Baron , and Baron Altham , upon conference betwixt the Lords of the Privy Council and them , that the King by his proclamation can not create any offence which was not an offence before , for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point ; for if he may create an offence where none is , upon that ensues fine and imprisonment : also the law of England is divided into three parts , common law , statute law , and custom ; but the King 's proclamation is none of them : also malum aut eat malum in se , aut prohibitum , that which is against common law is malum in se , malum prohibitum is such an offence as is prohibited by Act of Parliament , and not by proclamation . |
| 13 | Although the recently announced European Air Traffic Control information system may facilitate the movement of aircraft across national boundaries , it can not create more airspace in the already crowded skies over southern England . |
| 14 | What can not be justified quantitatively can not command large resources . |
| 15 | For an isolation experiment can not eliminate all possible environmental influences , all sources of experience ; it can not prove a universal negative , if only because universal negatives can not be proved . |
| 16 | We can learn an enormous amount from studying the constraints imposed upon classes , whether by structures or the class struggle , but they can not resolve all the questions we wish to ask . |
| 17 | ‘ I will speak to him , ’ he said to her when they had got out of earshot , ‘ and see if I can not resolve this matter . ’ |
| 18 | However , because the individual has settled here the Government say that they can not send that person back . |
| 19 | I can not send this letter because I am always watched and I must never be a disloyal German . ’ |
| 20 | The child also needs time to go to the lavatory ; a hurried and pressurizing parent or an overactive child who can not sit still can start a pattern of difficult bowel habits . |
| 21 | I can not sit idle , ’ Theda said with spirit , evading the question . |
| 22 | ‘ Money can not soften some things , ’ Wilson said ‘ and you can not begin to imagine the insults , the nature of the insults , as though I were a woman of the streets … |
| 23 | Inside , the Sana is extremely spacious , and though the quality of its cabin materials can not match that of west European cars , it is better than some eastern rivals . |
| 24 | Dagenham can not match other Ford plants right now but its performance will appear even less satisfactory against the Japanese . |
| 25 | ‘ Northampton is an expanding area and wages for care assistants can not match those to be found in industry , ’ says Bill Aitken , the department 's operations manager . |
| 26 | The Communist Party can not match this . |
| 27 | It might seem that 1991 can not match this catalogue of ills . |
| 28 | It seems I can not perform one task aright this eventide . ’ |
| 29 | A computational device of this sort can not perform any calculation involving steps equivalent to iteration or recursion . |
| 30 | Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you . |