Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says one critic : ‘ You can not advertise shame , ’ says one critic , ‘ and you can not walk up to a prostitute and say ‘ Hey , you , walk off the streets and join other prostitutes in farming ’ . ’ |
| 2 | You can walk away but I can not walk away . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not walk away unless you ask me to go . ’ |
| 4 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 5 | The problem here is that , since one needs to be in place long before sunrise , in order to prepare for the shot , one can not walk directly to the site . |
| 6 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 7 | As a recent survey by the Management Information Centre showed , 70% of small and medium sized practices around the country find audits increasingly unprofitable as a result of the costs of audit regulation — which they can not pass on to clients — combined with client pressure on fees . |
| 8 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 9 | God is love , as St John tells us ( 1 John 4:8 ) , and as love , by his very nature , can not command even creatures to love him in return . |
| 10 | Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat . |
| 11 | If one starts with a podzol soil ( acid , anaerobic , and without worms ) the increase will e very slow as earthworms can not migrate quickly . |
| 12 | The patient who can not sit up may start by washing in bed , with the nurse guiding him , so that he does not risk over-balancing and falling . |
| 13 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
| 14 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 15 | We can not sit idly by and watch Yugoslavia tear itself to pieces , watch people being killed in vast numbers , and watch the wonderful archaeological and architectural gems being destroyed , while saying that there is nothing that we can do . |
| 16 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 17 | Unlike the prison inmate , AEC participants can not sit back and passively do their time . |
| 18 | The Tories can not sit back and smile smugly at another Labour spat , knowing that few Britons , so far , are republican . |
| 19 | You can not sit back in your little room writing a nice romantic story about loving couples . |
| 20 | ‘ You can not sit back and let it happen . |
| 21 | ‘ Also , if you allow the dog to sit on your settee , then replace that settee with a new one you do n't want the dog to sit on , you must not expect it to suddenly understand why it can not sit there . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Edward can not sit there , besieging the town , with us here . |
| 23 | once a year that er a subject teacher and a pupil can not sit down an and come up with a |
| 24 | I have my doubts that Batty will ever be world class , that aside I can not understand why Wilko can not sit down with the side he 's got and bang something out to keep both Strachan and Rocastle in the side . |
| 25 | These are life-threatening — cancer for obvious reasons , blindness because a fish which can not see can not compete effectively for food , and will be more vulnerable to predation . |
| 26 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 27 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 28 | Talk of a Mexican devaluation , and all it entails for foreign investment , is an issue the authorities can not will away . |
| 29 | The Spanish finance minister , Carlos Solchaga , said : ‘ You can not pile up social provisions and forget the real economy . ’ |
| 30 | This means that with wood veneer you can not achieve very fine lines in a design but with care and good planning some quite delicate effects can be obtained ( fig. 3 ) . |