Example sentences of "can not [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With even Marxist Cuba now hungry for foreign investment , say optimists , rigid state control of energy industries in other parts of Latin America can not last long . |
| 2 | These beliefs about what low attainers can not do dictate and reflect the kind of learning experience these pupils have . |
| 3 | Granted that one is clear about that , the fact that relevant statements of what human beings can and can not do come in various strengths is not so important . |
| 4 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 5 | That is not to say technological effort can not help maximise the value of assets . |
| 6 | It is not only that quantification can not help eliminate such predicates , but often we have to make use of such predicates in order to make clear that the given quantified sentence does indeed convey an ontological claim . |