Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you can not pass a colon as a literal string parameter in an ON … |
| 2 | You can not create a constitution just by writing on a piece of paper , as the French are so fond of doing . |
| 3 | Some films have to be shot on location : you can not create a moving ‘ face ’ out of several thousand people for a British Airways commercial in any other way . |
| 4 | Clearly , we can not create a competitive market of ideas in crime investigation . |
| 5 | Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid . |
| 6 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |
| 7 | The notion that a Ministry which can not command a majority in the House of Commons … a Ministry in a minority of 31 per cent … in these circumstances is invested with the right to demand a dissolution is as subversive of constitutional usage , as it would , in my opinion , be pernicious to the general and paramount interests of the nation at large . |
| 8 | This distinction was heavily criticized , chiefly on the ground that courts , when exercising judicial functions , often can not resolve a dispute simply by applying the law but must sometimes exercise discretion on policy grounds to fill gaps in the law ; so the need to have recourse to policy was no reason not to commit a decision to a body which would deal with it in a fully ‘ judicial ’ way . |
| 9 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 10 | If I understand it correctly , the inset for Skelton is made not because of any question of Policy E Ten , but to recognize the existence of a substantial built-up area , which in the County Council 's opinion er does not can not perform a greenbelt function . |
| 11 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 12 | Such expressions , he argued , can not perform a genuinely naming function , and , ideally , should not be used at all . |
| 13 | Schools can not achieve a major change on this and the ‘ basics ’ unaided by the rest of us . |
| 14 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 15 | So at this point expectations of inflation are correct , and given those expectations the government can not achieve a higher iso-vote line . |
| 16 | The 75% shareholder can not comprise a company and an individual — it must be just one of these . |
| 17 | ‘ All that talk of coming between brothers and so on — but she can not speak a wort of any language but English , and is furious if one says the smallest phrase in French . ’ |
| 18 | It is an old saying that you can not tell a book by its cover . |
| 19 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
| 20 | There is a book to be written on the identity crisis apparent in nurses who have been left to the mercy of all the changes , and you will be far from alone if you can not tell a facilitator from a patient services coordinator ! |
| 21 | In most organisations , top down authority goes hand-in-hand with departmentalisation and the division of work , so that a senior manager in department A can not tell a junior manager in department B what to do , because his authority does not cross department or sectional boundaries . |
| 22 | If you find that you can not hold a normal conversation after exercising , then you are overdoing it . |
| 23 | If you can not hold a conversation with someone without getting out of breath then you are going too fast . |
| 24 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 25 | The appearance which sense-spectra present can be compared with a so-called ‘ dialect continuum ’ : speakers from village A can communicate with those from village B , who are able to converse with speakers from C ; these , in turn , can communicate with speakers from village D. However , speakers from A can not hold a conversation with speakers from D , and without the evidence of the intervening stages , one would be tempted to say that they spoke different languages . |
| 26 | The Labour party can not hold a candle to the Government 's record in terms of helping elderly people with the costs of heating . |
| 27 | One can not separate a frog into its individual cells , mix them together , and get a frog ; the results will be a chaotic mixture . |
| 28 | They have repeatedly cut benefits for the disabled by abolishing industrial injury benefit , by abolishing disablement benefit for seven out of eight disabled people and by abolishing the reduced earnings allowance for disabled people who can not earn a full wage . |
| 29 | Despite the all the cutbacks that so clearly indicate that IBM Corp now acknowledges that the mainframe can not remain a dominant part of its business for much longer , the company does have new models up its sleeve for early next year — February is thought likely , our US associate Technology News of America hears . |
| 30 | It can not remain a secret much longer , in any case . ’ |