Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun pl] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 2 | WORDS and pictures can not describe the disaster that is unfolding in former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | The increased spending on health and education is welcome in every way , although those who work in schools and hospitals can not help but feel that they will be paying for it themselves by being denied pay rises . |
| 4 | ‘ If Croats and Moslems can not live together , side by side , there will not be a Bosnia-Herzegovina . |
| 5 | Banks ' need for capital is greatest when economies are in recession and borrowers can not service their loans . |
| 6 | Until delivery of the goods to the beneficiary , his creditors and buyers can not ascertain whether the goods were actually loaded on board , or whether the freight was paid . |
| 7 | And resorts , tour operators and shops can not afford to advertise if they are on the breadline . |
| 8 | Individualists and holists can not agree about the reducibility of social theories because they approach the problem from different directions , and at the same time fail to recognise that this is so . |
| 9 | We will legislate to ensure that the Maxwells , Hansons and Lucases can not raid our occupational pension funds . |
| 10 | JCO in 1991 is unlikely to exhibit a rapid fall from six to seven authors — for example , because the distribution is already shifted far to the right ; conversely , basic research journals such as Nature and PNAS can not exhibit the pattern until their modal author number increases to 6 . |
| 11 | Officials and administrators can not divest themselves of all ideological clothing in the advice which they tender to their political masters , or in the independent decisions which they are in a position to take . |
| 12 | ARFU officials and Wallabies can not fathom the Home Unions ' inflexibility on the issue , particularly since the ARFU allowed England to interrupt their tour of Australia last year to play two matches in Fiji before returning to play a Test in Sydney . |
| 13 | Arguably if the market is less well informed because analysts , investors and journalists can not talk to companies , then the share price is even more likely to be way out of line and the real insider dealer can reap big profits . |
| 14 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 15 | If tenants and brewers can not agree terms then some form of outside arbitration will occur . |
| 16 | Foreign officers and ratings can not understand collision prevention rules . |
| 17 | The people and animals can not live there & the air is too thin — there is not enough oxygen to breathe . |
| 18 | However , business terms and concepts can not apply when the raw material for your product is a human being , especially a child who , contemporaneously with your manufacturing process , is maturing to adulthood . |
| 19 | That is , ethical or moral considerations ‘ impose a limit on our purposes and their execution which the distinction between means and ends can not account for , since means and ends alike come under moral scrutiny ’ . |
| 20 | Human rights activists and journalists can not fathom why the Paris government has been so lukewarm to the Bourequats . |
| 21 | For anatomical reasons , chimps and gorillas can not produce a range of sounds sufficient for speech . |
| 22 | Here excess supply of goods means that output is determined by demand and firms can not sell the desired volume of output . |
| 23 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
| 24 | Victims of verbal assaults who suffer hurt feelings , sleepless nights , physical illness , or ostracism by friends and neighbours can not bring an action . |
| 25 | Boys and girls can not consent to indecent assault , no matter how willing they are : McCormack [ 1969 ] 2 QB 442 . |
| 26 | Some things even the best lawyers and lawmakers , the best women and mothers can not overturn . |
| 27 | may allow man to speak to man , the man in the street to speak to his fellow , until a ripple becomes a tide running through every nation — of common sense , of simple healthy caution — a tide that rulers and negotiators can not ignore … |
| 28 | It 's the job of the reporter to interpret facts and schools can not expect them to be mere mouthpieces . |