Example sentences of "[that] you ca " in BNC.

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1 The problem with head injuries is that you ca n't see any blood , so you refuse to accept that serious damage has ensued .
2 Searle glosses Foucault 's comment by saying , ‘ The text is written so obscurely that you ca n't figure out exactly what the thesis is ( hence ‘ obscurantisme ’ ) and then when one criticizes it , the author says , ‘ Vous m'avez mal compris ; vous êtes idiot ' ’ ( hence ‘ Terroriste ’ ) . ’
3 Mr Lavery said his would be delicious , and that you ca n't over-fertilise a pumpkin , or it wilts .
4 Put him in the ring with an audience that you ca n't see , and he seems to be delivering butterfly-taps .
5 It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’
6 The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered .
7 The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered .
8 I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians .
9 The idea behind it is that you ca n't achieve a total look with one brand but must combine products from both ends of the market for a contemporary image .
10 Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted .
11 Well it 's fairly obvious that you ca n't go back to the plant , in n it ? ’ agreed his platinum blonde flatmate Deirdre .
12 He says that you ca n't trust anybody in business .
13 No , just let them see that you ca n't cope and they 've got you ! ’
14 ‘ It 's a question that you ca n't answer for somebody else , you know .
15 I 'm aware that you ca n't move too fast because of your audience .
16 It 's like having a tune in yer head all the time that you ca n't shake out .
17 They must learn what every child knows that you ca n't ask for a present back .
18 Those who dismiss the cult of dieting as a frivolous wish to be beautiful are missing its sinister subliminal message — that you ca n't be a truly successful woman unless you resemble a stick insect , a pre-pubescent boy , or the late Duchess of Windsor .
19 Do n't be put off by the fact that you ca n't rock and roll — nor can I — full tuition at beginner standard is included .
20 That you ca n't have any of it left .
21 So smooth is the splice that you ca n't see the join : the plasmid is indistinguishable from any other part of the chromosome .
22 The point I 'm making is that you ca n't just interchange the words ‘ black ’ music and ‘ disco ’ music .
23 Jock Bruce-Gardyne and Nigel Lawson quote ‘ a senior member ’ of the committee summing up its conclusion thus : ‘ even then we thought it was going to ruin us ; but also that you ca n't control the march of science ’ .
24 You know that you ca n't do anything , you ca n't go anywhere , you ca n't make arrangements to do anything .
25 If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline .
26 your partner talks about his/her work or an interest that you ca n't understand or join in
27 Avoid ambiguous situations that you ca n't control .
28 ‘ You must n't feel that you ca n't do anything .
29 That argues that you ca n't make the weather interesting all the time .
30 Stand close to some other children , now spread out so that you ca n't touch anybody .
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