Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can not [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion . |
| 2 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 3 | Mrs Lynch added : ‘ What I can not understand is why the bag was not checked at the mortuary or the police station ? ’ |
| 4 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 5 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 6 | What we can not tell is whether the trends to increasing divorce and remarriage will be a force for increasing the solitary living or for extending the range of family contacts available to the divorced . |
| 7 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 8 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 9 | ‘ But at least what we can not sell is going to help other people overseas . ’ |
| 10 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 11 | What we can not know is how deeply they felt the break-up of their communal life and the removal of the prestige attached to the greater foundations . |
| 12 | But what we can not accept is that those who have been prepared to co-operate thus far with the P.C.A. , now knowing as a result of this court 's widely publicised recent judgment of the grave suspicions presently surrounding the police officers concerned , would truly prefer to remain anonymous and watch these officers prosper in their libel action , than that their statements should be disclosed to C.N.L. with a view to their being proofed and , if necessary , called as witnesses in defence . |
| 13 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 14 | What he can not do is anything more positive . |
| 15 | That is to say , what it can not handle is … mere confusion , chaos . |
| 16 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |